With Ubuntu Unity-specific support being lavished upon Chromium and Firefox 4 it wasn’t going to be long before Opera, the oft overlooked web browser which a healthy 5% of OMG! readers use, received some due love and attention.
Opera user/fan/developer Kyle Baker – whose Opera themes and tips we’ve featured before — has written a ‘Unity script’ for the browser that adds in some Unity specific love including a tab count to the Launcher icon, right-click quick lists to your Opera speed dial entries and support for Unity’s “urgency” alerts.
Tab Badge
Neat.
Urgency
When Opera is not in focus and a new tab is opened, the Opera icon in the Launcher now enters urgency mode and wiggles once.
An urgency highlight is also applied to the icon and a small attention reminder in the upper left corner until you focus Opera again (this clears the urgency setting).”
Quicklists
This script also provides a ‘Quicklist’ – an menu available when right-clicking the Launcher icon – stuffed full of your Speed Dial entries and links for new windows/tab, etc.
Download
The Unity script, and instructions on how to install it, can be found on Kyle’s blog at kyleabaker.com.