Opera

Opera is a Norwegian-made platform-independent free web browser which has less security holes than Microsoft's Internet Explorer.

To download the latest version of Opera, please visit this site

Tips and neat features:

  1. Turn image loading on/off with ctrl+i
  2. Go back one page (Back): Z. Go forward one page (Forward): X or by clicking both left and right mouse button (left + right forward and right + left backward)
  3. Go to next header (H-tag) in a document: S. Go to previous header: W
  4. Shift+Left/Right/Up/Down selects the next link or form input in given direction
  5. Zoom in 10%: + or 0, Zoom out 10%: - or 9. Restore zoom to 100%: 6.
  6. Switch view between open tabs using 2 or ctrl+tab (next) and 1 or ctrl+shift+tab (previous) or by right click + scroll
  7. Stop loading of a web-page with the ESC-button
  8. Transfer window: This tag gives some information on and list all files that have been downloaded lately. To show this windows you can either use View->Panel->Transfers or ctrl+alt+t.
  9. Shows a list of links (clickable) visited within the last couple of days, by day, time: View/Panel/History eller ctrl+alt+H
  10. To save a web-page with images: File/Save with images as.
  11. Show web-page in a new tab: shift + click on link or use middle button (set 'Middle click options' in Tools/Preferences/Advanced/Shortcuts/Middle click options).
  12. To view page source; ctrl+f3.
  13. To view all addresses linked to in web-page: ctrl+j.
  14. As with Internet Explorer 7.0 and Mozilla Firefox there is a field (next to the address bar) for searching on popular sites like Google, Wikipedia and such.
  15. Open a web-page in a new tab that will not become active (so that it will load itself in the background): ctrl+shift+click on link.
  16. Hotclick: By double-clicking a word or a highlighted word you will get a menu with resembles the search bar with various search engines, Dictionary and Encyclopedia.
  17. Personal bar: You can add your own bookmarks in a "Hotlist" under the address bar by dragging the tabs active with the site you want to that area.
  18. Switch between tabs with ctrl+tab.
  19. To import bookmarks from other web browser, make sure they are stored in .adr-format and choose File->Insert Bookmark.
  20. Mouse Gestures built-in

If the web-page will not load correctly, try changing the Identify under Tools->Preferences->Network.