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[Saiboogu]

Well, that was short-lived. Two pet peeves finally made me switch back, though they're part of a bigger problem. I use tabs - a lot. Ctrl-Click opens a link in a new tab in IE, FF, Chrome. In Opera, it does.. Nothing, really. Only consistent way I found to open a new tab was a right click, "Open in new tab." Nuisance, but I was dealing. Then I started working today.. I use a few bookmarklets and always keep them in my bookmarks bar. In Chrome, FF, and I think IE Ctrl-B opens or closes the bar. In Opera it opens the keyboard help. Bah. I don't really have time to deal with a piece of software that chooses to buck traditions just to be unique. I like standards.

Oh yeah - this probably didn't contribute to my mood today towards Opera. I run dual monitors, so I use two browser windows. Once is mostly personal stuff, one is work related. Though I'll drag tabs back and forth if I need to look at things side-by-side. Anyway, closing some extra windows I accidentally closed my personal window, about a dozen tabs. FF would have asked me to confirm. Chrome would have skipped confirmation, but the entire window could have been recovered easily (Ctrl-N for a new window, click on the "12 Tabs ..." link to restore my big session). Opera doesn't have either, and from what I've found on Google, people have been complaining for awhile about it - so it isn't likely to change.

Oh well. Back to Chrome.

[ËQINÖX]

Been useing it since i seen this post and its been working perfectly fine for me.

@saib there is a way to set up hotkeys  to do what open new tab thing

[Saiboogu]

I figured I could probably hack the keys around, think I even saw a userscript someplace for that. But having no protection against accidental window closures or a way to recover a closed window is a show stopper for me. I did like a lot of things about it, but not enough to overlook that.

[Sandbag]

What version of Opera are you using? 

Ctrl B Opens bookmarks for me?  I'm using 10.50 Build 3296

SHIFT + Left Click opens a link in a new tab.

If you go to Preferences >> Advanced >> Select "Browsing" from the left menu, in the right second from bottom is a tick box for "Confirm Exit".

You can also "lock" tabs so they cant be accidentally closed, and save different sessions.  Eg I might have 4 windows for administering a DB for a particular site and save that session as DBadminSITENAME.  It would open my phpmyadmin, cpanel, cpanel file manager, the site, and the site backend.

Now you guys can get back together
I love happy endings *tears* :')

[Sarge]

I use Opera Mini 5.0 on my phone, and Firefox/Chrome on pc.

[Saiboogu]

Now you guys can get back together
I love happy endings *tears* :')

Hah.. I wish it were that easy..

Ctrl-B opens the bookmarks panel, but in Chrome and (I thought, but maybe I don't recall properly) FF it opens the bookmarks bar. I couldn't find the bookmarks bar in Opera, which was the real annoyance.

I found shift-click but ctrl-click is in fraking muscle memory by now, I browse so much - be a fight to change that.

Confirm on Exit protects only the last Opera window - when I have multiple windows open it'll let me close everything before that last window without any confirmation.

Saved sessions don't really fit my need here. I do have certain regular sites for work I could put in a saved session, but I like having some protection of any old browser session, no matter how temporary. For instance, in my lost session I had a 300+ page forum thread I've been slowly reading over the past few weeks. Its going to take me ages to find my place in that again. Also a 1500+ page webcomic that I need to find my place in again. Saved sessions wouldn't help much in either of those cases, I need something that lets me restore the tabs just how they were left. According to comments I picked up on the Opera development blog that's a feature people have been requesting since 9.x but the dev team is ignoring it. :\

[ËQINÖX]

Confirm on Exit protects only the last Opera window - when I have multiple windows open it'll let me close everything before that last window without any confirmation.

I need something that lets me restore the tabs just how they were left. According to comments I picked up on the Opera development blog that's a feature people have been requesting since 9.x but the dev team is ignoring it. :\

Hmm when i set up the confirm to exit and when i click the X to exit i get the 20 second confirmation warning every time no mater how many tabs or windows i have open.

As for restoring Tabs as long as you don't close OPERA you can restore any tab from the opera recycle bin by simply clicking it and then choose the right one.

The book marks tool bar is bottom left corner click it and a bar on the left should apear then click on the star and there is your book marks and being opera you can compleatly customise the position and styling.
However with the speed dial feature book marks are outdated and redundant becuse if you go to the speed dial page and click "configure speed dial" and then select 5x5 and then clcik ok you get 25 customisable pannels so unles you have more that 25 bookmarks i wouldent even bother useing bookmarks and instead use the speed dial as its way better

[ËQINÖX]

Forgot to say there is something i cant get to work

I duno about the rest of you but i never could get the boost feature to work i turn it on and then start browsing and it pops up saying conection failed and the then turns its self off but my connection is fine

[Saiboogu]

Hmm when i set up the confirm to exit and when i click the X to exit i get the 20 second confirmation warning every time no mater how many tabs or windows i have open.

I'll test this today. I was going on comments I read online regarding how that feature worked.

As for restoring Tabs as long as you don't close OPERA you can restore any tab from the opera recycle bin by simply clicking it and then choose the right one.

I did test this immediately after closing the window, and the recycle bin was nearly empty - it had dumped all the tabs I had recently closed from the window I closed, and only showed me a few tabs that were closed from the window that was still open.

The book marks tool bar is bottom left corner click it and a bar on the left should apear then click on the star and there is your book marks and being opera you can compleatly customise the position and styling.
However with the speed dial feature book marks are outdated and redundant becuse if you go to the speed dial page and click "configure speed dial" and then select 5x5 and then clcik ok you get 25 customisable pannels so unles you have more that 25 bookmarks i wouldent even bother useing bookmarks and instead use the speed dial as its way better

This wasn't what I was looking for - I want a toolbar for some bookmarks. But I found it just now, called the "Personal Bar."

Edit - I can't win with this browser. I guess I'm just too stuck in my ways. Remember my first pet-peeve that the tabs were a few pixels below the top of the screen? Required more precision to click on than I was used too. Well, doesn't look like there's an option to put the personal bar on the top of the screen but below the tab bar. Only above the tab bar. Weird that the browser can be so configurable, but fail to have the one option I want, yet again..

I kinda understand what you're saying about the speed dial, and I haven't use bookmarks in the traditional way for years (assuming most folks use them to save favorite websites, etc). I've always been one to search or use direct URLs.

But, I still need/want a bookmarks toolbar because I use bookmarklets - they can't be replaced by the speed dial and aren't very useful from the bookmarks sidebar. I don't use many bookmarklets, but I'm hooked on the ones I do use. For instance, I have one that pulls up the next unread comic in my daily reading list. Or not as often used but still handy - bookmarklets for sharing the page I'm on in Facebook or my blog, or adding items to my universal wishlist on Amazon. Or shortening a URL. Anyway, looks like I've overcome some of these issues - thanks for the help. I'll give it another shot.