Hide Menu Bar in Opera
December 18th, 2008
Menu Bar is such a waste of screen real estate in web browsers. There was no inbuilt preference in opera that would enable me to hide or show menu bar with a single key toggle. Opera allows the users to customize its keyboard shortcuts to a great extent. So, here’s how you go about toggling the menu bar in opera.
- Go to Tools -> Preferences.
- Click the “Advanced” tab.
- Select “Shortcuts” from the left side menu.
- Select “Opera Standard” under “Keyboard Setup” and click on “Edit” button.
- From the “Edit Keyboard Window” popup, select “Application” and then on “New” button.
- Now type “F10” without quotes, press Tab key & then type “Enable menu bar | Disable menu bar” without quotes.
- Now click “OK” button on both the windows.
Enjoy!
January 13th, 2009 at 8:49 pm
I tried with the latest version of Opera (9.63) in windows Vista and it does not work.
March 6th, 2009 at 8:49 pm
works like a charm! thanks!
April 3rd, 2009 at 10:53 am
nice, it works fine!
May 14th, 2009 at 10:11 am
Brilliant! Thanks Aswin! Just what I was looking for.
June 2nd, 2009 at 11:14 am
i tried it and yes it does work on vista! thank you so much.
June 5th, 2009 at 6:48 am
Works like a clock, thanks mate ;]
July 13th, 2009 at 7:31 am
I love you man … it works
July 26th, 2009 at 9:54 pm
For everyone that tries this and it does not work…
Change it to “Disable menu bar | Enable menu bar” instead of Enable then Disable. This made it work!
July 27th, 2009 at 9:56 am
Thanks for the tip Nick.
September 4th, 2009 at 2:28 am
work great in the new Opera 10!! thanks!!
September 6th, 2009 at 2:25 pm
man…u made be stickin to opera over firefox…awesome.
December 16th, 2009 at 9:26 am
Thank you sooooo much for the tip! My Opera looks perfect now.