Goddamnit, this was the reason I switched from chrome to opera, and now it's happening in opera too!

It used to be Ctrl-Del or something like that.

Chrome has a button on the url bar to do this with one click. It also shows what cookies the page is creating/using.

I had a similar problem which weirdly turned out to be something to do with uTorrent and the firewall. Try closing/disabling these if you have them.

Say I have two tabs open A and B. I click a link in A which opens in a new tab, which I then close. The active, selected tab is now B and not A as it logically should be.

This drives me nuts when tab A has lots of links that open in new tabs. After I close each child tab it automatically selects the tab to it's right and not the source tab that originally spawned the child tab.

Is this a bug? Is there any way to change this behaviour?