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Control how Opera's pages should be handled.

Press Page Down and Page Up to switch slides

Page cycling and loading

By holding the Ctrl key and repeatedly pressing Tab, you can cycle through all the pages you have open within the Opera workspace. This setting allows you to choose what order the pages should be cycled in, and whether you want to see the list of open pages while you are cycling through them.

Under "Loading", set your preference for how soon Opera should attempt to display a page after it starts loading.

Page icons

A Web page can specify a small icon to represent itself. Opera will display this icon in the address field, in the bookmarks, on tabs, and so forth.

The standard method of doing this is to specify link rel="shortcut icon" in the page document. However, on some servers a file called favicon.ico is put in the root directory without a link from the document.

By default, Opera will display both types of icons. You may also choose to ignore both types of icons, or to display only icons correctly linked from within documents.

New pages

The "New pages" setting lets you decide how much size a new page should take up when opened. If you always want to use the whole workspace for viewing pages, leave the setting as "Always maximize".

When you open an item from the panels, such as a bookmark, would you like the document to open in a new page or to appear in the page that is currently active? If you want to avoid opening new pages with each item, opt to "Reuse existing page".

Check the "Open new page next to active" option if you want new pages that you open to appear next to your current page on the page bar. By default, new pages will be added at the right end of the page bar.

Scrolling

The scroll bar is normally placed on the right side of the screen, indicating the length of the current document and your current position within it. You may scroll the document by clicking on the arrows in either end of the scroll bar, or by dragging the indicator with your mouse. If you prefer not to see the scroll bar, uncheck this option.

If you scroll using a mouse wheel, would you like Opera to jump directly to the point in the document you are scrolling to, or do you prefer seeing the document scroll smoothly into position? Enable smooth scrolling if you prefer the latter.

Page size and tooltips

The title bar is the bar at the very top of the Opera application window, which displays the title of your currently active page as well as Opera [version number].

Check the "Show size" setting if you would like the title bar to display the current size of the active page before this information — for example if you have made a Web page and want to know how it looks with different window sizes.

When you hover certain elements in Opera or on Web pages with your mouse, Opera displays small tooltips that add information about the element. If you do not want to see them, uncheck the "Show tooltips" option.