Warning Pop-Up When Opening from Desktop Shortcut

[bobwhitley3]

bobwhitley3 last edited by

I have a windows shortcut on my desktop that launches Opera and specifies three different websites to open. When I double-click the link, Opera opens and displays a warning message for each of the three tabs it creates.

How can I prevent this pop-up from appearing and have Opera simply open the sites in the tabs?

This is the verbiage of the warning:

Shortcut Trying to Open a Link
Opera was opened by the shortcut with an unknown url from "http://www.ebay.com". Are you sure you want to open it?

(or www.imdb.com or images.google.com)

There is a "Remember my Choice" checkbox but it Opera does not remember if it is checked.

This is the string in the shortcut's Target box:

"C:\Program Files (x86)\Opera\launcher.exe" --private www.ebay.com www.imdb.com images.google.com

Note that I see the same behavior when I omit the --private flag when opening Opera.

[sgunhouse]

sgunhouse Moderator Volunteer last edited by

There is a tendency for adware to modify the desktop shortcut to direct you to their site; the idea is for Opera to warn you that such a thing may have happened. Though obviously in this case it is decidedly inconvenient ...

[leocg]

leocg Moderator Volunteer @bobwhitley3 last edited by

Try adding an exception in settings.

[burnout426]

burnout426 Volunteer last edited by

There's a setting for this under opera://settings/onStartup.