New tab with blank address bar

[johnlhillhouse]

johnlhillhouse @leocg last edited by

@leocg yes, but when i do that i do not have my home page with the new tag? am i missing something? I know some of this is a small issue but it helps to learn thank you

[johnlhillhouse]

johnlhillhouse last edited by

the double click does hot work but the f8 is great. still when you are on a page and want to go to a different address you still have a long url to delete. i tried f8 and double click on this and it did not clear the address bar

[leocg]

leocg Moderator Volunteer @johnlhillhouse last edited by

@johnlhillhouse In fact I wonder how that extension is working, since Opera doesn't allow setting up a page to be opened when a new tab is opened.

[leocg]

leocg Moderator Volunteer @johnlhillhouse last edited by

@johnlhillhouse F8 is to focus the address bar. Done that, you start typing the new address or press delete to remove the current one.

[johnlhillhouse]

johnlhillhouse last edited by

as simple it sounds this really helps!!!!!!!!!!!!!! thank you very much!!!!!!!!!!!!!

ps- another question i have win 7 pro and 32 bit (yea, i know old but works fine for me but the first whole bunch of times i could not get opera to download------ had all protection turned off------- the forum did not respond and i don't know of any way to contact Opera directly. finally i went here---
Index of /ftp/pub/opera/desktop/75.0.3969.149/win/and went to autoupdate.exe to get it to install and work. only thing is the whole opera program stays in download and does not go to program files like most others. not rush but any ideas? again thank you very much

[johnlhillhouse]

johnlhillhouse last edited by

extension works fine. is there any other way to open a new tab that opens in your home page? thank you

[leocg]

leocg Moderator Volunteer @johnlhillhouse last edited by

@johnlhillhouse Different issue, should be discussed in a different topic.

[leocg]

leocg Moderator Volunteer @johnlhillhouse last edited by

@johnlhillhouse Nope because Opera doesn't really have a home page and doesn't allow you to change the new tab page.

[burnout426]

burnout426 Volunteer @leocg last edited by

@leocg Opera blocks chrome_url_overrides from manifest.json in an extension. It also blocks chrome.tabs.update() of the page to a new URL in most instances. In this extension's case though, it does:

chrome.tabs.update(id, {url:"about:blank"});
chrome.tabs.create({url:homepage, active:true});
chrome.tabs.remove(id);

As in, it creates a new tab and removes the one Opera opens really fast.

[johnlhillhouse]

johnlhillhouse last edited by

thank you for the reply, but this is way beyond my expertise.