Using Mouse Gestures in Opera 9.5

June 21st, 2008 by Ankit Duseja

Opera’s new version has been performing quite well in past days and have taken some traffic of the newly released Firefox 3. Several unique features of Opera 9.5 are making users switch to it. One of those several features is the inbuilt mouse gestures in Opera 9.5.

Mouse gesture really get in handy when you are in a hurry of browsing. Now you will not have to search for the buttons at the address bar to reload, open or close a tab. Just perform the relevant gesture and opera actions at your gestures.

I have figured a tabular list showing the gestures and the work they do.

Action	Gesture to be performed
Open a new tab	Click and hold right mouse button and move mouse down.
Close a tab	Click and hold right mouse button and move mouse down then right.
Reload	Click and hold right mouse button and move mouse up and then down.
Minimize	Click and hold right mouse button and move mouse down and then left
Restore	Click and hold right mouse button and move mouse up and then right
Duplicate Window	Click and hold right mouse button and move mouse down and then up.
Previous page	Click and hold right mouse button and move mouse left
Next Page	Click and hold right mouse button and move mouse right
Home Page	Double Click in an empty window.
Open link in new window in foreground	Click and hold right mouse button at a link and move mouse downwards.
Open link in new windows in background	Click and hold right mouse button at a link and move mouse downwards and then again upwards.
Scroll between tabs	Hold right mouse button and roll wheel
Zoom in and out	Hold Ctrl key down and roll wheel
Move back and forth in page history	Hold Shift key down and roll wheel