Day 17: opera6.ini

Originally posted on Sunday, June 05, 2005

Some advanced features for configuring Opera are only available by editing the file opera6.ini (or “Opera 8 Preferences” on Mac)

Boy did my life just get a little easier. I had planned a day on the opera6.ini file, which is a veritable treasure-trove of hidden features that you don’t need to get into but might want to. There are a lot of hidden power features in there.

“Like what?” you ask. Well, I was going to do a lot of investigative journalism, track down Usenet postings, references on my.opera.com forums and mailing lists, and put it all together in one nice little package for you.

But I’m not going to do that.

No, I’m not being turned by the dark side of the Force, and I haven’t given up on the series (although life and allergies has made it much slower going than expected).

I’m not going to do all that because Opera ASA just published this: Opera6.ini Settings Explained

So why reinvent the wheel, when you can just link to it?

But I will throw in a little tip for you Mac users out there: don’t look for an opera6.ini on your system. You won’t find one. The comparable file on Mac OS X is ~/Library/Preferences/Opera Preferences/Opera 8 Preferences.

Comments

On June 07, 2005 at 04:39 PM, Mike Dallos wrote:

Turbo Mode=0

Memory Cache OFF.......

wow, smokin'!!

Be well.........

Mike

On September 22, 2005 at 01:46 PM, Edward Welbourne wrote:

heh - thanks for the link.

Added to new man 1 opera page for Unix ;^)

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