adding opera buttons for dragonfly and cache reload

Opera has some great features buried in its menus, so I make a couple of buttons to add them to the standard toolbars.

The first one I use is Reload From Cache, which does exactly what it says. It reloads the page entirely from cache, which is really useful when you combine it with the ability to view source in your choice of text editor. You can view source, make some test changes, reload from cache and see if it worked. It's less twitchy than inline editing since it only reloads when you're ready; and it's far less aggravating than trying to do serious edits in a tiny window with no syntax highlighting.

The second is bleeding obvious - a button on your toolbar to load Dragonfly. I'm sure they'll add one as standard once it's out of beta, but who's that patient? :)

So anyway, here are the buttons. Click the links and they'll get added to your custom buttons; then you can drag them onto whichever toolbar you like.

full instructions

Either click and drag the link to the toolbar of your choice, or...

  1. Click the link and then ok to add it to your buttons

  2. Right click a toolbar and select Customise

  3. Go to the Buttons tab and select My Buttons at the bottom left

  4. Drag the button to the toolbar of your choice

  5. Click ok and you should have a new button on your toolbar

to make more buttons

If you want to make more buttons of your own, check out the Opera Custom Button & Command Creator.

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Comments

  1. Anonymous Anonymous, August 06, 2008 9:31 PM:

    Thank you for these damn good shortcuts. They're both awesome.

  2. Anonymous supermahen, September 23, 2008 3:50 AM:

    How do you do this? can you show me

  3. Blogger 200ok, September 28, 2008 10:01 PM:

    @supermahen: I've added full instructions on adding the buttons; plus a link to a button creator if you want to make more of your own.

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