Bookmarks will only open in last tab created

A Former User

Did I happen to mention part of my job requires software troubleshooting?

Absolutely, that is the expected behaviour and when I get back home I completely expect this to be the only machine this happens to.

I'm also semi-convinced it's because this machine has been upgraded from Snow Leopard through Sierra without a clean install at any point, there's a file or set of files where a permissions thing got overlooked or a hiccough happened.

I also run my own mail server and get a personal use certificate for it. With this machine only I can check "Accept this certificate permanently" every single time I go to that server until I'm blue in the face and it will still come up as an untrusted certificate. I have to go into Opera/Preferences/Privacy and Security/Manage Certificates and manually change the drop down to "Always Trust" for that server.

When I get a spare few hours I believe I'm going to download the installer for Sierra, wipe the computer and try to install fresh. This is my travel notebook so it's slightly below slamming hand in car door for priority but it is annoying.

Thanks

A Former User

Oh, just for grins and giggles, I've tried a couple more things:

set up normal surfing profile with left and right desktops bookmarks open in right desktop in my email tab.
Swapped left window for right window and reset all the tabs to be back to "normal" (trying to see if it's the last window open) and nope, bookmarks still open in right window email tab.

I've started opening a new tab in the right window after everything's set up. So far that new tab will be where bookmarks open no matter which window I click on the bookmark. I can then drag that tab back over to the left window. After that if I open another bookmark, it opens in the right window email tab unless I create yet another new tab each time I want to use a bookmark.

A Former User

Well 24 hours of a stomach flu later (yick) I downloaded Sierra's installer and made an installer thumbdrive. Blew away the whole laptop and reinstalled. Just so I wouldn't be putting something causing this on I installed Opera first. Same behaviour. Bookmarks from the menu open in the email tab only. Riggin' friggin'

Dunno.

A Former User

Now I'm getting the same behaviour on my MacBook Pro. It literally just started. I've had this thing since 2012 and use it as a daily computer, desktop replacement.

Bookmarks from menu bar, opens in right side overwriting my email.
Bookmarks from the bookmark bar opens correctly.

sigh

bidibidibidi

bidibidibidi

I am right there with you Trid. Ever since I installed the new Opera update 3 days ago (update was from a few days before that), every Bookmark I go to pops up in some random tab. I currently have 4 windows open on my Mac, with about 6 tabs each. The selected Bookmark, will just pop up n a randomly minimized window tab. Same happens when I click on anything from my History.

Makes for a fun hide and seek game, but is actually a pain. Have not had this issue before on any browser, so hopefully Opera will figure a fix post haste.

A Former User

and now the same action on my Mac Pro at work. It's the bookmark sharing. Has to be. This only started happening when the bookmarks propagated. Hide and seek, yes, now there's a new twist to this:

Same setup, two windows, left and right
Left is surfing set, a bunch of tabs.
Right is static, email and a few online google groups I'm a member of.

Left window, open new tab using plus sign in tab bar.
using bookmark bar, new page opens as you'd expect, in the active (new) tab in the left window
using Bookmarks menu item from menu bar at top, ANY bookmark chosen will open in the active tab in the RIGHT window.

Newest twist:
Use plus sign in tab bar on both windows to open new tab
use Bookmarks menu item in left window, page opens in last active tab in right window. Clicked on the back arrow to return to where that tab is supposed to be.
use Bookmarks menu item in right window, page opens in last active tab in left window. WTF?
I've tried this multiple times with various open windows, new tabs, old tabs, moved tabs, shifted tabs between windows, etc. It always works the same way now, any bookmark opened via the Bookmarks menu item will open in the OTHER window in the active tab there. Joy.

So now when I leave the right hand side window, I must leave a blank tab open and active or I'll not think about it, come back to my surfing page (left side) and go to one of my bookmarks and move away from a page I want to keep static, such as email.

This is a pain in the tucas.

A Former User

Opera/Preferences...
opens a new tab in the current window, as expected.

Bookmarks/Show All Bookmarks
opens a new tab in the current window, as expected.

Opera/Signed in as...
opens the sign in icon at the top right of the current window, as expected.

Opera/Import Bookmarks and Settings
opens the preferences tab (or opens a new tab with preferences) in the current window, as expected.

Signing out of sync does not help, the Bookmarks menu bookmarks still opens in the opposite window from the current one.

Links within pages still work properly either within the tab or right click (CTRL+click) and Open In New Tab works fine.

I'm running out of stuff to try and this is really getting annoying to the point that I may have to find a new way to set up my desktops after 10 years or so. Well... HELL

bidibidibidi

bidibidibidi

OK, here's the funny thing about Opera as opposed to Safari with it's Apple Support Discussion groups; here at Opera it's just folks talking, there never seems to be anyone from Opera that comes on and offers advice and helps. I am sure the good folks at Opera are working to fix this annoying problem with a new update, but couldn't they mention that to us in the meantime?

bidibidibidi

bidibidibidi

WOW, zero change in this problem. Come on Opera, it's a new year so get on this.

avl

avl Opera

@bidibidibidi I'm pretty sure I replied before in this thread :). Still have not been able to reproduce the issue, so if you know how to that would be good.

A Former User

I don't know how to post a picture on this forum so I guess I'm typing a bit for this:

Four different machines, I don't have the MacBook Air that started this online so I'll have to get the info from it tonight. I've also got another Mac Mini that for some reason is showing a yellow screen when trying to use Share Screen. That just started with latest OS X update. Have to get that tonight as well. If only to make sure they're all reading the same version of Opera as well as OS X

Mac Mini. When I had this in the About:// page it worked correctly:
Version: 39.0.2256.48 - Restart Opera to update to version 42.0.2393.94
Update stream: Stable
System: Mac OS X 10.11.6 64-bit

When I clicked on the relaunch now the bookmarks from the menu bar opened in the opposite window (incorrect way of opening)
Version: 42.0.2393.94 - Opera is up to date
Update stream: Stable
System: Mac OS X 10.11.6 64-bit

Well... HELL. I should have stayed with the old version.

MacBook Pro. Bookmarks from the menu bar open in the opposite window (incorrect)
Version: 42.0.2393.94 - Opera is up to date
Update stream: Stable
System: Mac OS X 10.11.6 64-bit

iMac. Note on this, a few days ago I saw that it was still behaving correctly so I disabled the bookmarks sync. It remained behaving correctly until this morning. DAMN! So it's not the sync. I did NOT update the version nor anything else on the system from the past week where it was behaving to this morning where it was not and the version has not changed.

Still iMac. Bookmarks from the menu bar open in the opposite window (incorrect) started this morning
Version: 42.0.2393.94 - Opera is up to date
Update stream: Stable
System: Mac OS X 10.11.6 64-bit
Version information

Mac Pro. Bookmarks from the menu bar open in the opposite window (incorrect) has been doing this for a week now:
Version: 42.0.2393.94 - Opera is up to date
Update stream: Stable
System: Mac OS X 10.11.6 64-bit

A Former User

Formatting does not stick around apparently. Those were in the format of the about:// screen with new line/carriage returns after each value. Oh well, still readable and you know how it's supposed to look.

A Former User

Look up in the "History opens in the wrong window" He's got the same thing going on and yes this is the same actions as bookmarks. Single history thing opens in another window, show all opens in the current window.

bidibidibidi

bidibidibidi

Trin, thanks for the detailed answers.
I am still having the same problem since the latest update on my Macbook Pro: version 42.0.2393.94. Ever since that update, whenever I choose a bookmark from the top Bookmarks menu or choose anything from History, the selected website does not open in the tab I am currently using. Instead it opens up in a tab on a minimized Opera window. I have 5 Opera windows open, each with various tabs, with 4 windows at a time minimized. When I choose a bookmark or history, it will generally open in the left most minimized window's visible tab, but sometimes it will open in a different tab. Since the update it will never update in the tab I am using.

Avi, let us know how to add pictures, and I can replicate it.

Thank you.

A Former User

Update. All of those machines are now updated to Sierra and are exhibiting the same behaviour.

For instance, this is the MacBook Pro:

Version information

Version: 42.0.2393.94 - Opera is up to date
Update stream: Stable
System: Mac OS X 10.12.2 64-bit

Pretty much the same for all of them.

bidibidibidi

bidibidibidi

Brand new update as of 1/20 6pm, and it does not fix this problem that the last update caused.
Well Done Opera!

Opera, email when you have fixed this, and I will come back from Safari.

A Former User

Rumor control has it this is fixed and will be part of the next release.

A Former User

Do bookmarks not open in a new tab? Maybe they do for me because I have an extension called V7 Bookmarks.

curious273

curious273

This has already been fixed, see https://forums.opera.com/topic/19702/bookmark-history-selection-opens-in-wrong-window/2

When I updated from 42 to 44, the problem was indeed gone. Considering that no one in this thread has reported the issue since January, I think it's a done issue. Triandroid, maybe you are still running an old version?

A Former User

WOOHOOO!!! I was running 43.0.xxx Now 44.0.2510.857 It works properly, opens bookmarks in the tab active in the active window.

Thanks, all!