Opera 11 hotkey behaviour for Ctrl+C (copy)

Opera 11 overrides the standard behaviour for double-clicking a word, rendering the Ctrl+C hotkey inoperable.

Even though the context menu says "Copy Ctrl+C", pressing Ctrl+C doesn't do that (while pressing 'c' does, because "Copy" is the first item in the menu that starts with this letter).

This is bad, because:
- it is not consistent with the rest of the environment
- it is not consistent within Opera itself (sometimes you copy with Ctrl+C, while in other cases - pressing 'c' is enough)
- the current behaviour disables "hardware acceleration" for certain operations (i.e. people rely on muscle-memory when they press Ctrl+C - but now this doesn't work, you must use the mouse and click on a menu entry, which is not necessarily easier to do)
- last, but not least - a promise is broken. The pop-up clearly says that Ctrl+C stands for "Copy", but when you press that combination - nothing happens.

A compromise would be to behave like Office 2007 - double-clicking a word creates a pop-up menu with icons for common actions, but it does not take the focus - so the "good old" behaviour still works. If a person likes clicking with a mouse - they are free to do so, the menu becomes active as soon as the mouse is above it.

This article describes how to disable this feature: http://operawatch.com/news/2007/07/opera-tip-how-to-disable-the-context-menu-...


p.s. Opera 10 didn't have this.

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• usability
• ux
• user experience
• opera
• browser
• hci
• software
• educational

[johannidde]

You can disable the menu.

Maybe by default the popup should be disabled.

[ralienpp]

@johannidde, how can it be disabled?

[johannidde]

@ralienpp

How to disable context menu on text double click? Tools > Preferences... > Advanced > Toolbars > "uncheck" [Disable] Double-click text to display context menu

[hanyz2ymj]

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