The latest Opera is getting close to Firefox with the new extensions.

I just found this extension:

https://addons.opera.com/addons/extensions/details/extendtube/1.5/?displ...

One word: Amazing

It removes ads that pops up, you can set it to go widescreen and always pick the best quality, seeking and a download button.

GET IT!

I've been doing this for a while so figured I'd share this..

Normal when you click on something to download it you then have to navigate to where you usually keep whatever file type it is your are downloading, like videos, mp3's, pdf files etc..

In Opera, you can have any filetype be automatically downloaded to a preset folder. After you set it up you just click on links and they are put right into whatever folder you want without having to do anything.

How to set this up:

Go to opera preferences.
Click on advanced.
Click on downloads.

Now you get a list of mime types, don't worry you don't need to know what a mime type is, just look at the extensions and select one, for example mp3, then click edit.

Put a checkmark in "save to disk" and "do not ask for folder, save directly to", then click on browse and select the folder you want.

Voila, that's it.

Now click on an mp3 download link and nothing happens, except it's downloaded and saved in your chosen folder just like that.

One thing I use this for is nzb files for downloading news. I have a program that looks for nzb files in a folder on my fileserver and then loads that to start a usenet download. I setup nzb files to be downloaded to that folder and now all I need to do is click an nzb file and my fileserver starts downloading a move, fucking awesome.

You know the Opera search bar right?

Want to add some sites search engine so you can use it right from the search bar from now on?

Let's use wikipedia as an example:

Go to wikipedia, see the search button on the wikipedia side menu?

Right click in this textbox, on the popup menu you see now select "create search" and click OK.

That's it, now you can quickly search wikipedia from the Opera search bar.

Repeat for any other sites you use for research often.

Want to always save a certain filetype into a certain folder?

Go to preferences/advanced tab.

Click on "download"

Now you get a list of mime types.

Find the one you want to change by looking at the extension, make sure "hide file types opened with opera" is not checked. You can type in the extension in the "quick find" textbox to locate it.

Click on "edit" for the file type you located.

Now change the setting to:

Save to disk.
"Do not ask for bla bla, save directly to folder"

Now chose the folder and OK the changes.

From now on all you need to do is click on the file to download and it will be saved directly to your chosen location without doing anything else but clicking on the file.

If you don't see your preferred file type in the list, first click on a link to download that filetype, in the "save as" dialog that pops up put a checkmark in "always bla bla" and save the file. That will give you an entry in the download list that you can now change.

This is fucking awesome. For example I use newsbin to get nbz files that my automated newsdownloader will use to download shit, I hooked opera up now so it saves the nbz files across my network to my fileserver in the folder that my newsdownloader scans for nbz files, so now all I have to do is click on nbz files I want to doawnload and I don't have to do shit else.

Getting tired of shitty shopping sites crapping up your search results everytime you search because scum sites litter thier page text with words to hijack search results?

Close opera, go to the directory where opera is installed and open up the file "search.ini"

Find the section for google, useually under [search engine 1] and replace the URL= line with this:

URL=http://www.google.com/search?q=-comparisons -comparison -price -compare -buy -shop -shopping %s&sourceid=opera&num=%i&ie=utf-8&oe=utf-8

Save and do a google search from the opera search bar and it will now exclude all sites with common words in the results.