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I see Fn+Enter gets you a mouse cursor (On an N900, maybe this is a known feature on the N8x0s where the d-pad is a bit more prominently used than the N900's arrow keys).

Pretty neat, though you can't select text with it that I can see (again, maybe you can on the N8x0s, since d-pad ≠ arrow keys exactly, I think?). Only problem is I have fn+enter mapped as a tab key on my N900, which I personally like more. But, well, not a big deal.

Another thing I noticed is Opera doesn't take dead keys correctly. For example, I have " mapped as a dead key - that way I can either press it twice, thus resulting in the " character, or press it then a letter to get something like ő. I have a number of other dead keys: ~ ˇ ^ ° ` ´.

I did however notice that my shift+fn+key keymappings (like shift+fn+i to get the ∞ character) work just fine in Opera. I don't remember if they always did, but I think it's great that they do.

I REALLY appreciate the desktop/mobile useragent setting. Google still tries to redirect you to a 'plain' version of GMail when you use the desktop user agent, and forcing it to go to the true full desktop version grinds Opera to a halt after a minute or two of loading (and the N900 as a whole slows down noticeably along with it). MicroB isn't exactly fast at handling full-desktop gmail, but with Javascript pausing turned off, it makes full-desktop gmail slow-but-usable. But I think giving users options is great, and thus am greatly thankful to features like from-the-settings-ui changeable user-agent and the much earlier addition of a system/Opera keyboard toggle.

The above aside, I think Opera's a good browser, and while I still prefer MicroB I know Opera makes a lot of users happier than MicroB does, so in that regard I am very greatful to the people at Opera awesome enough to keep supporting the Maemo platform.
 

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