Opera Skin with Aero Glass Style Tabbar & Removed Titlebar

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Opera browser is one of known browser on internet and accounts for 2% browser share. Opera was one of first browser to have tabbed browsing, mouse gestures, built-in phishing and malware protection and several other unique features.  One thing which Opera UI still lacks is support for Aero Glass Style.

Aero Glass User interface was introduced in Windows Vista and continued in Windows 7 also. Currently only two browsers which supports Aero are Google Chrome and Internet Explorer and it is expected that Opera 11 will have Aero Style.

But you don’t need to wait until Opera 11 to enjoy Aero style tabs since Rafael Oliveira has found the hack to enable Aero in Opera 9 and Opera 10. He has also made available Aero enabled Opra skin which you can download and apply on your Opera browser to enjoy Aero Glass style tabs.

Along with Aero Hack Rafael has also added hack to remove title bar from Opera to emulate Google Chrome style.

Download Aero Glass Style Tabbar Opera Skin (Rapidshare)

Download Aero Glass Style Tabbar Opera Skin (Mediafire)

How to Apply Aero Style Tab-bar Opera skin

1. Download Aero Glass Enable tab-bar Skins using above links

2. Extract content of operahacks.zip on desktop

2. Copy Aero.zip from above extracted zip file content to Opera\Skin\ folder

3. Now start your Opera and go to Tools -> Appearance -> Choose AERO on the list

4. Now execute OperaAero.exe present in operahacks.zip

How to Remove Opera Title Bar

To remove the titlebar, put windowstyle.exe directly in C:\ and open the buttons.html in Opera. Click in the links in this file to add the Minimize, Restore, Maximize and Close buttons (or just add they right now) to the toolbar.