Tabs reset when opening Opera from Start Menu during Windows startup
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NatureWithGreenWorld last edited by
System Information:OS: Windows 11 Processor: Intel Core i7 Short summary of the problem:When Opera auto-opens with Windows, it successfully keeps all my data. However, if I manually open Opera from the Start Menu while the system or browser startup is still in progress, it resets all my open tabs. If I close and open Opera later (when no startup is in progress), I do not lose anything. It feels like a background conflict where launching it manually resets the active startup session.Steps to reproduce:Turn on the computer and let Windows start up. While Opera is attempting to auto-open or load in the background, click the Opera shortcut in the Start Menu. Opera opens a fresh window, and all previous tabs from the older session are lost.Actual result:I lose access to my old tabs because the manual startup resets the tab data.Expected result:The Start Menu shortcut should safely connect to the existing auto-start process without wiping out my open tabs.
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burnout426 Volunteer last edited by
Can't reproduce this. It must be very timing dependent.
If Opera is already open and you try to start it again, even super fast, in addition to the restored window(s), a new window with just the start page should open. The exception is if the second time opera.exe is passed the --autostart option (which is the case with the startup entry), Opera won't do anything as it will see that Opera is already started.
Even if opera.exe is started with --autostart first and you immediately call opera.exe again, you should still get the initial restored window(s) and the new window with just a start page tab in it. Not sure how you're getting just the new window with the restored window not showing where when you close that window with just a new tab in it and restart Opera, you get your tabs back. It must be very dependent on timing.
Opera shouldn't of course do that and should have something to avoid that if some devs can reproduce it.
If this happens a lot for you, right-click on the Opera's start menu shortcut, choose "open file location", right-click on Opera's shortcut, goto "Properties", switch to the "Shortcut" tab and add a space and --autostart to the end of the target field and apply and OK out. That might prevent it. If you use the start menu icon for opening new windows in Opera too by clicking it, right-click it and choose "open new window" instead or just use ctrl + n in Opera.
If that modification of the shortcut works, you'll have to see if it still works after an update of Opera or if Opera replaces the shortcut on you where you have to add --autostart back in. Of course the other option is to just not have Opera set to autostart when Windows starts.
