Tabs and windows? Opera is confused

[hucker]

hucker last edited by leocg

Opera seems to be confused. I open a load of pages in tabs and yet sometimes it ends up with two opera windows as well. Surely it should be one or the other?! For example if I have multiple tabs open in Opera, then I forget Opera is open and launch Opera again from the start menu, I get a 2nd window?! But I have opted to use tabbed browsing! This is driving me nuts, I'm losing track of what I have open where - I think a tab isn't there, then I realise there's another set of them elsewhere!

Where do I change this setting?

[leocg]

leocg Moderator Volunteer @hucker last edited by

@hucker You opened a new instance of Opera, that's why you have two windows.

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hucker @leocg last edited by

@leocg Yes I know what it's doing, but how do I stop it? I don't see why anyone would want to split all their open tabs into two windows, but I certainly don't want it. Opening Opera again should just add another tab, like what happens in other programs.

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leocg Moderator Volunteer @hucker last edited by

@hucker You don't. Probably a Windows setting? Don't know.

Same happens with Chrome.

[hucker]

hucker @leocg last edited by hucker

@leocg I think it's an app setting. I didn't mean other browsers, I mean other programs. Some allow multi instances, some don't, some have an option. But having tabs AND multi instance is crazy.

[burnout426]

burnout426 Volunteer last edited by

Using Opera's shortcut (that executes just opera.exe) while Opera is already running is supposed to create a new window. To create just a new tab kind of outside of Opera's UI, you can right-click it's taskbar icon and choose "new tab" to create a new start page tab in the currently-focused window.

If you want to create a new tab in the currently-selected window using a shortcut, you'll need to create a new Opera shortcut (or modify Opera's existing one) that launches a specific http or https URL in Opera.

For example, you can right-click on your desktop, goto "New", choose "Shortcut", point it to opera.exe, change its name to "Opera New Tab" and click Finish. Then, you can right-click on that shortcut, goto "properties", switch to the "shortcut" tab and change the command in the target field to:

"C:\Users\yourusername\AppData\Local\Programs\Opera\opera.exe" "https://example.com/"

for example, apply and OK out.

Then, that shortcut won't create a new window and will open a new tab in the currently-focused window.

If you don't want it to be some page, you can pass "about:blank" to opera.exe as that's allowed. The page will be blank of course, but will have "about:blank" in the address field.

Besides that, not sure. Opera doesn't have an option for a single-window mode. There might be some extension that force a new window opened from a shortcut into a tab into the currently-focused window, but don't know if there is one.

[hucker]

hucker @burnout426 last edited by

@burnout426 Cool! We're nearly there. I want a shortcut which will work when Opera is or is not open (incase I forget it's already running), and this works. All I need now is instead of a blank page, the speed dial. Is there an address similar to about:blank to make it open the speed dial? It didn't like about:speeddial or about:speed-dial or about:speed

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burnout426 Volunteer @hucker last edited by

@hucker opera://startpageshared is the URL for the speeddial page, but I don't think it's allowed via the command line.

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hucker @burnout426 last edited by

@burnout426 both about:startpageshared and about:startpage are permitted in the address bar, but not in the command line. Weird. I thought the command line was just telling it an address to go to.