Opera Mini Beta 5 Keyboard Shortcuts

by Ronen Halevy on Sep 21st, 2009 at 9:45 am EST

operamini5 Opera Mini Beta 5 came out last week and really impressed me with its updates. Personally I hate how it takes over as your default browser and does not let you change that option (along with many other small gripes) but I know that millions of BlackBerry users are big fans. Especially since Opera Mini is the only browser on the BlackBerry that does not die when you run JavaScript websites.

The latest beta 5 version is a huge improvement over previous versions but the controls are a bit wonky and non-standard. For example, you cannot hit the back button to exit out of the application. Still its pretty useful to know the keyboard shortcuts to easily speed through the application. It turns out that the all knowing Al Sacco is a big fan of Opera Mini and managed to ferret out some pretty useful shortcuts.

The basics:

2 = Page Up
8 = Page Down
4 = Page Left
6 = Page Right
5= Zoom In/Out

The letter "Q" is the main Opera Mini 5 "shortcut key." Various numeral keys can be pressed along with the letter "Q" to activate browsing shortcuts. For instance:

Q + 1: Clear Page of Cursor, Selection Box
Q + 2: Show Blank URL Field to Navigate to New Page
Q + 3: Search for Specific Text on a Page
Q + 4: Access "Speed-Dial" Home Screen
Q + 5: View of Add to Bookmarks
Q + 6: View Browsing History
Q + 8: Access Browser Settings
Q + 9: View or Add to Saved Web pages

So what other shortcuts have you noticed? If you don’t already have it you can pick it up at m.operamini.com/next

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This entry was posted on Monday, September 21st, 2009 and is filed under News.
Tags: Beta, Keyboard, Opera Mini, Shortcuts

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15 Comments to “Opera Mini Beta 5 Keyboard Shortcuts”

Posted by: wojtas25
September 21, 2009 at 10:32 am EST

…and when u need to edit/clear SpeedDial, just highlight SD and hit 1/W button

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Posted by: ShvartzBerry
September 21, 2009 at 10:36 am EST

If you go to the Help Section in the app, there is a listing of all of the Shortcuts. I wouldn’t call it the Q button – it’s really the # button. It happens to be on the Q key. Opera’s shortcuts are about half # shortcuts and half * shortcuts.

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- Posted by: Nokia
  October 26, 2009 at 3:03 pm EST
  
  What if I have a touch panel screan and I can not use the shorcuts.. how can I erase a shortcut in that situation.. Please help
  
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Posted by: Nikolaus
September 21, 2009 at 10:36 am EST

The Q+ shortcuts are terrible! I will never be able to remember what each one means, since I have already gotten so used to the BB Browser shortcuts.

Yes we need a way to choose which browser to open a link it, plus I find when I select a link to open in Opera Mini, Opera comes up but the site is never loaded, so fail there.

I also noticed the following: I check work e-mail in Opera through a MS exchange server for web based Outlook. With OM 4.2, when I’d reply to an e-mail Opera placed the cursor right at the top, so I could just start typing. Now with OM 5.0b, it placed the cursor at the button, so I have to scroll up through the entire e-mall thread to get to the top so I can write my reply. This is very annoying.

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Posted by: Ho
September 21, 2009 at 12:29 pm EST

I tried running this on a 8300 and it was horrible

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- Posted by: DonGato
  September 22, 2009 at 9:55 am EST
  
  Didn’t work well in 8320 as well. No wonder as they are the same platform. Guess I will stick with the slow Bolt for now.
  
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Posted by: Derek Brown
September 21, 2009 at 5:31 pm EST

Call me stupid, but how do I Copy/Paste in this beta? I was having trouble viewing a particular page on the BB browser, so I copied the URL, opened Opera, and could not figure out how to paste it into the address bar…

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- Posted by: Ronen Halevy
  September 21, 2009 at 6:15 pm EST
  
  To past I think you have to click in the text box and then click the trackball again
  
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  - Posted by: Derek Brown
    September 21, 2009 at 9:48 pm EST
    
    Thanks, Ronen. I had tried clicking the trackball in, but that didn’t work before. I just tried again, and found that the trackball needs to be clicked and held in for a second or two (at least that’s the case for my antiquated 8830).
    
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    - Posted by: Luca Filigheddu
      September 22, 2009 at 1:01 pm EST
      
      click in the text box / address bar to highlight it (make sure no cursor on it, no edit mode) then click “W”. A menu with the options Copy – Cut – Paste will appear
      
      hope this helps
      
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      - Posted by: Ken
        September 29, 2009 at 10:18 pm EST
        
        THANKS ALOT!!!! I was looking everywhere for it.
Posted by: Kevin
September 22, 2009 at 1:01 am EST

If you hold the trackball down on a speed dial selection for a second or two, you will be given the oppotunity to “clear” the speed dial selection.

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Posted by: pootermobile
September 23, 2009 at 3:03 am EST

Got it and it’s awesome but I think I found a bug. When writing something for example this comment and i hit the delete button to erase a letter it starts erasing everything. Obviously there are gonna be bugs cause its a beta version. Has anyone gotten that problem?

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Posted by: soje
October 14, 2009 at 1:35 am EST

if u want to copy or paste. when u get to where u want to copy,just press 1 in ur fone key u wil see select text press ok and highlight d txt.and pres use wit ur left key then copy.

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Posted by: soje in nigeria
October 14, 2009 at 1:40 am EST

how can i set my opera5 time?

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