[Solved]Auto-opening of new tabs

[A Former User]

A Former User last edited by leocg

Hi all,

I may be missing something, but I can't find a box to tick to enable me to open a new tab automatically when I click on "Open in new tab". I an do that on Firefox.

Thanks,

Ian

[leocg]

leocg Moderator Volunteer @Guest last edited by

There's no such option in Opera.

[A Former User]

A Former User last edited by

Hi,

Thanks for the prompt feedback. There are worse problems to have!

Ian

[rh99]

rh99 @Guest last edited by

@prsy What do you mean by "automatically"? Either you open a tab directly where it will open or you open it in the background where it should be ready opened for you later. Though lately I've noticed Chrome browsers offering a very useless blank page for a few seconds when I go to a tab I loaded in the background a few minutes ago. I'd love to fix that problem. Not too much point in loading a tab in the background if it doesn't even load. I am using a slow computer and wonder if its not loading to prevent less of a load to the computer hardware. 2gb of DDR2 ram doesn't go far these days!

[leocg]

leocg Moderator Volunteer @rh99 last edited by

When you right click on a link and chose 'open in new tab', not always that tab opens in the foreground. I understood that the question is about that.

[A Former User]

A Former User last edited by

Hi, rh99. You'll see that the question was answered by leocg. Ideally, as I could do with Firefox, when I click on "Open in new tab", it does just that, but it stays inn the background. I would like to go straight to that tab without an extra click, but it's not the end of the world if I can't in Opera.

Thanks,

Ian

[rh99]

rh99 @Guest last edited by

@prsy I always load stuff in the background so I never noticed this. One more thing for Opera to fix. I do wonder how many people are actually working on the browser for Windows. There seems to be a lot of things that don't work. Basic things.

[A Former User]

A Former User last edited by

To open a link in a new tab in the background, first hold down the Ctrl key and then click on the link.

To open a link in the new active tab, you must first hold down the Ctrl + Shift keys and then click on the link.

[A Former User]

A Former User last edited by

You can hover the mouse over the link, then hold down the right mouse button and drag the mouse down.

[A Former User]

A Former User last edited by

Great tip temkem! The ctrl/shift/left-click action does exactly what I want. I think you can call that one solved.

Thanks,

Ian