My recent Opera tweaks

Lets start with the menu bar: Click this link to add the menu toggle button to the buttons available in the appearance dialog. Now click on the sunglasses to open the view bar and right-click the view bar to customize it. In the appearance dialog go to Buttons -> My buttons. Drag & Drop the new Menu button to the far right side of the view bar. Now to make it even easier to enable/disable the menu bar we are going to activate the keyboard shortcut for it. This shortcut has been disabled in Windows for reasons which are obscure to me. Press CTRL+F12 to get into the preferences dialog and go to Advanced -> Shortcuts and edit the current keyboard setup. Use the searchbox to locate the string "menu bar". In the result change the string "Platform Unix, F11 alt" to just "F11 alt". Now you can use ALT+F11 to toggle the menu bar. If you forget this shortcut you still have the visual toggle in the view bar.

For CSS based adblocking I use a slightly modified version of Jordi Kroon's AdBlocker.css. Create a subdirectory to you profile dir called styles and save either his or mine inside this directory. To activate it go to Advanced -> Content -> Style options. Activate My style sheet for Author mode and choose the AdBlocker.css file. This is a rather dirty solution, but okay if you use no other user css. To get more control over your style sheets read this fine article over at nontroppos Opera Wiki. The article also has nice visual step-by-step guides.

Finally it is a good idea to do URL filtering, too. This way ads getting past the CSS will be blocked by the URL filter. Get a good (and regularly updated) filter.ini here and look here on how to use it.

my current clean opera

Have a fun and "clean" time surfing the web,
Matthias