Find Hidden Features on Opera’s Internal

Opera: Pages
CHRIS HOFFMAN @chrisbhoffman
UPDATED JANUARY 14, 2016, 10:06AM EDT

Opera contains hidden features that aren’t exposed in its user interface. They’re on
internal pages, which you can access by typing Opera: into the address bar, followed by
the name of the page.

Opera’s hidden Opera: pages are its counterpart to Firefox’s About: pages and
Chrome’s Chrome:// URLs. They contain hidden options, alternate user interfaces and
diagnostic information tucked away from the main interface.

Exploring the Opera: Pages

Opera doesn’t have an internal page that lists all its internal pages, like Firefox’s
about:about and Chrome’s chrome://about pages do. If you want to view a list and
explore them yourself, you can install the Opera Internal Pages extension. It adds a
toolbar button that lists all the pages.

You can access some of these pages from the standard Opera menu. For example, the
opera:about and opera:help pages are the same as the About and Help options in the
menu.

Opera:Con g
The opera:con g page is Opera’s counterpart to Firefox’s famous about:con g page. It
contains a wide variety of options and tweaks, many of which aren’t available
elsewhere in Opera’s user interface.

The page is completely searchable, so you can quickly nd the option you’re looking
for. Unlike the confusingly named options on Firefox’s about:con g page, Opera’s
Preferences Editor page contains options written in plain English.

Opera:Plugins
The opera:plugins page displays a list of your installed browser plug-ins. You can click
the Disable option to disable a plug-in without uninstalling it entirely.

The “Enable Plug-ins” check box controls whether plug-in support is enabled browser-
wide. It’s the same option you’ll nd in Opera’s Quick Preferences menu.

Opera:History & Opera:HistorySearch

The opera:history page displays a different view of your history — it’s not the same as
the History option in Opera’s menu.

The opera:historysearch page allows you to search your browsing history. Like the
search option built into Opera’s standard History page, it offers full-text search of
pages.

Opera:Cache
The opera:cache page allows you to browse Opera’s browser cache, which caches
downloaded content to speed up future load times.

Select a speci c website to view its cached les or save them to your computer.

Opera:Debug
The opera:debug page allows connections to remote Opera Dragon y sessions. You
can use this feature to debug remote Opera systems over the network.

To connect to another browser from this page, the other Opera user must launch
Opera’s Dragon y developer tool (Opera -> Page -> Developer Tools -> Opera Dragon y)
and enable remote debugging.

Opera:Drives
The opera:drives page lets you browse your local le system from a web-page-style
interface within Opera.

Opera:MemDebug, Opera:WebStorage and

Opera:WebDatabases
The opera:memdebug page breaks down Opera’s memory usage. The
opera:webstorage and opera:webdatabases pages list websites using Opera’s Web
storage and Web database features.

Opera’s internal Opera: URLs don’t contain fun Easter eggs like Firefox’s or
experimental  features like Chrome’s, but there are a treasure trove of hidden options
for you to explore — particularly on the opera:con g page.

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CHRIS HOFFMAN
Chris Hoffman is Editor in Chief of How-To Geek. He's written about
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