Recently Opera started creating a new session upon startup even when it's already running.

How can I make it reuse the current session instead?

Old Opera had the option to open local files directly, eg. with Libreoffice.
Could that be implemented in an extension?
Also it allowed to pass the url only to the external app. Useful for external downloaders and as a "1 click" function to instantly stream videos in VLC instead of downloading.

BTW - For Fedora users: The "Russian Fedora" Repos has it all nicely packaged. Including the ffmpeg libs.

To opera devs:

Why don't you just unbundle ffmpeg and use the system-default one?

Largely most people have already installed a "competent" ffmpeg library anyway...

The russian-fedora community repo carries all of the opera RPMs. http://ru.fedoracommunity.org/repository

The russian-fedora community repo carries all of the opera RPMs.
http://ru.fedoracommunity.org/repository