Mouse gestures in Opera

Opera’s amazing mouse gestures lets you perform common browsing actions with small, quick mouse movements.

To enable or disable mouse gestures, select Settings > Preferences > Advanced > Shortcuts, and check or uncheck “Enable mouse gestures”.

When mouse gestures are enabled, a visual guide displays when you hold the right mouse button down and move the mouse in any webpage. This visual interface guides you through the available gestures, making it easier to learn and use them. When you complete an action, a notification briefly shows what action you performed. Once you learn your favorite mouse gestures and perform them quickly, the interface will not display. See the video.

Navigation gestures

These gestures help you to navigate faster.

  1. Click and hold right mouse button.
  2. Move the mouse in the indicated directions.
  3. Release the right mouse button.

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

Open a new tab

Move down

Open a copy in a background tab

Move down then up

Reload

Move up then down

Restore or maximize

Move up then right

Minimize

Move down then left

Close current tab

Move down then right

Link gestures

  1. Point your mouse to a link.
  2. Click and hold right mouse button.
  3. Move the mouse in the indicated directions.
  4. Release the right mouse button.

Open link in a new, open tab or window

Move down

Open link in a new, background tab or window

Move down then up

Wheel gestures

Scroll up and down

Roll the wheel back and forth

Cycle through open tabs or windows

Hold right mouse button and roll wheel

Zoom in and out

Hold Ctrl key down and roll wheel