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Mouse Gestures in Opera

Opera's amazing mouse gestures lets you do frequently performed browse operations with small, quick mouse movements. Some operations can be done with several different gestures. Try them both and see which one you like better.

Navigation gestures

These gestures help you to navigate faster.

Previous page in history

Hold right button and move mouse left
or.. hold right button and click left button

Next page in history

Hold right button and move mouse right
or.. hold left button then click right button

Go to home page

Double-click in empty window

Window gestures

Click and hold right mouse button
Move the mouse in the indicated directions
Release the right mouse button

Open new document

Move down

Reload

Move up and down

Restore or maximize window

Move up then right

Minimize

Move down then left

Duplicate window

Move down then up

Close document

Move down then right, or move right-left-right

Link gestures

Point your mouse to a link
Click and hold right mouse button
Move the mouse in the indicated directions
Release the right mouse button

Open link in a new window in the foreground

Move down

Open link in a new window in the background

Move down then up

Wheel gestures

Scroll up and down

Roll the wheel back and forth

Jump from one window to the next

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

Panning

Click wheel then move mouse