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How to open new tab with homepage in Opera?

Monday, 4. May 2009, 15:10:54

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Few users want to open new tab with homepage instead of Speed Dial and it can be accomplished by combining actions.

Keyboard shortcut

If you don't know how to edit keyboard shortcut see this. Change the action for keyboard shortcut, t ctrl in Application section to the following. 

New page, 1 & Go to homepage

Mouse gesture

If you don't know how to edit mouse gesture see this. Change the action for mouse gesture, GestureDown in Application section to the following. 

Open link in new page | New page & Go to homepage

Button

Drag & drop New tab button next to new tab button and then delete old new tab button.

Don't delete new tab button first.

Thank you Opera Software for Portable Hard DriveHow to open multiple web pages from Opera Speed Dial?

Comments

Angeliki 4. May 2009, 18:22

Homer: Doh!

why I didn't think of it first ? p:



Charles Schloss 4. May 2009, 19:17

:cool:

Always useful Opera stuff on this post Tamil keep up the good work :up:

banana

Karen 4. May 2009, 22:18

w00t! Thank you, Tamil!

Bharat Raj 5. May 2009, 02:26

Thats a cool banana, going crazy over a desktop!:lol:
nice blog tamil!:yes:

Harish 5. May 2009, 14:52

that button was awesome, thanks Tamil.

dapxin 17. May 2009, 08:12

gr8

Emoryy 28. May 2009, 13:51

So it is not possible to open homepage as new tab with middle or double clicking on empty tab bar space? (I do not use the other ways to open new tabs)

Tamil 28. May 2009, 14:11

Yes.

ngocthanhtam 28. May 2009, 15:35

Hi tamil!I live in VietNam.nice to meet u!

Tamil 28. May 2009, 15:55

hi

Bharat Raj 28. May 2009, 20:11

:smile:

Anonymous 10. June 2009, 17:33

Shawn writes:

Lame, no built in way to set new tabs to open the home page automatically? Any plugins to enhance tabs? Also, I want sessions restores to take over my existing window and not create a new window. And I would like a multi row tabbar since I often have 30+ tabs open at once. hmmm

Tamil 10. June 2009, 22:13

I would like a multi row tabbar since I often have 30+ tabs open at once.

Right click on tab bar → Customize... → Toolbars → Wrapping → Wrap to multiple lines

Charles Schloss 10. June 2009, 23:15

I just noticed the post date, that was a interesting day

Tamil 10. June 2009, 23:27

Charles Schloss 10. June 2009, 23:38

I became 21 and got my adult drivers license and I got a new Opera 10 alpha build that week

Bharat Raj 11. June 2009, 00:16

:lol: :hat:

Anonymous 16. June 2009, 16:55

flypig writes:

The fact new tabs didn't open using my homepage was one of the reasons I dropped Opera in the past in favour of Firefox. It's great to have this now in Opera 10. Very clever stuff. Thank you!

Anonymous 12. July 2009, 19:35

Anonymous writes:

Hi, what's the license of the "thinking monkey" on the right side? I'm a big fan of Opera for more than 10 years and this is a logo I'd even put up on my own website.

Thanks.

Tamil 13. July 2009, 04:20

I don't remember how I got monkey image but I animated monkey thinking about Opera. You can use it. :smile:

Anonymous 17. August 2009, 09:23

rachel writes:

how to give link to the new tab

Tamil 17. August 2009, 10:17

Sorry, I don't understand.

brnaeem 9. September 2009, 07:24

Tamil, how do I get to my speed dial page from within my current tab (ie. without opening a new tab)?

Tamil 9. September 2009, 08:01

Drag & drop Speed Dial button to any toolbar.

Anonymous 19. September 2009, 13:51

scottys94 writes:

Wow. I always wanted to go to my homepage, when I open a new tab. Thank you very much for these simple instructions. I really appreciate it.

Anonymous 15. November 2009, 23:57

Anonymous writes:

well done.
Opera is much more stable than firefox and faster.
But it has 3 big feature failures against firefox for me.
You have fixed 1! well done.
Failure 2 is that it doesn't remember form fields...or i can't see where this feature is. IT does have preset form fields for first name, etc in prefs, but that is no good for cgi forms etc.
Failure 3 is the lack of the amazing adblock plus tool, or similar to kill off flash ads etc.

Anonymous 16. November 2009, 21:17

Anonymous writes:

nice 1 Tamil!! Thanks.

One more thing....sorry to be a total dick, but to make opera EXACTLY like firefox for opening a new tab....it needs to move the focus on the new tab to the address field, rather than within the page.
Let me explain clearly.
When you open a new tab in firefox the focus or cursor to begin typing is placed in an empty address line.
Is it possible to put some code on the end like this:

NOTE! BELOW IS NOT CODE: I JUST MADE IT UP AS PSEUDO-CODE AS AN EXPLANATION.


New page, 1 & Go to homepage, (focus goto FIELD="address")

Is this possible?
Thanks all.

Tamil 16. November 2009, 22:46

New page, 1 & Go to homepage & Focus address field

Anonymous 5. December 2009, 12:24

Anonymous writes:

AWESOME! Thanks Tamil

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