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borderline · 10-22-06, 09:30 PM

Okay, so I downloaded Opera for the 30 day trial, and I have to say I'm fairly impressed. It renders pages much nicer than PIE, and I haven't been able to live without tabbed browsing since I first tried Mozilla a couple years ago.

However, I'm having trouble figuring some things out. It seems this was developed strictly for pocketpc phones, because a lot of commands are accessable only through the keypad. I would expect there to be a button to pull up the favorites screen (like PIE), but the only ways I see are through menu-diving or by pressing "1" on the soft keyboard. And menu-diving seems to be the ONLY way to get back to the homepage.

By using a combination of Vito buttonmapper and Mortscript, I've developed an easier way to get to the favorites list. But it shouldn't have been that hard. There's a whole lot of real-estate on the bottom of my screen just waiting for some soft buttons. There's an 'Action' button, a 'Menu' button, then an inch and a half of blank space before the Input menu. Is there some way in Opera to customize the button layout that I haven't found yet? Wouldn't it make sense for Opera to put at least a few common buttons in that blank space?

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borderline Aximsite Minor League Member Join Date: Apr 2003 Posts: 105 Thanked 0 Times in 0 Posts	Trying Opera Mobile now. Am I missing something? Okay, so I downloaded Opera for the 30 day trial, and I have to say I'm fairly impressed. It renders pages much nicer than PIE, and I haven't been able to live without tabbed browsing since I first tried Mozilla a couple years ago. However, I'm having trouble figuring some things out. It seems this was developed strictly for pocketpc phones, because a lot of commands are accessable only through the keypad. I would expect there to be a button to pull up the favorites screen (like PIE), but the only ways I see are through menu-diving or by pressing "1" on the soft keyboard. And menu-diving seems to be the ONLY way to get back to the homepage. By using a combination of Vito buttonmapper and Mortscript, I've developed an easier way to get to the favorites list. But it shouldn't have been that hard. There's a whole lot of real-estate on the bottom of my screen just waiting for some soft buttons. There's an 'Action' button, a 'Menu' button, then an inch and a half of blank space before the Input menu. Is there some way in Opera to customize the button layout that I haven't found yet? Wouldn't it make sense for Opera to put at least a few common buttons in that blank space?