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Opera multiple home pages

Wednesday, June 7, 2006 8:37:42 AM

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Folder nickname
Command line shortcut
Keyboard shortcut
Button
JavaScript

Folder Nickname (Won't work in Opera 9.10-9.24 due to bug.)

Create a new folder in bookmarks and set nickname. Bookmarks > Manage Bookmarks... > Right click on folder > Properties... > Nickname Place bookmark of the sites you want as home page inside created folder. Enter nickname of folder as home page. Tools > Preferences... > General > Home page

Set nickname to folder in Opera
Set nickname to folder

Place bookmark of the sites you want as home page inside a folder
Place bookmark of the sites you want as home page inside a folder

Opera homepage
Set homepage

Command Line Shortcut

Create a shortcut to Opera similar to following one. 

"%ProgramFiles%\Opera\Opera.exe" www.site1.com www.site2.com bookmark_nickname

Keyboard Shortcut

If you don't know how to edit keyboard setup see this. Search for Go to homepage and change action to Go to page, "http://www.site1.com/" & New page & Go to page, "http://www.site2.com/"

Button

Drag & drop Go to homepage button to any toolbar. Note path to Toolbar Configuration file, close Opera, open and change www.site1.com & www.site2.com in toolbar configuration file.

JavaScript

Enter javascript:open('http://www.site1.com');open('http://www.site2.com');void 0 in Tools > Preferences... > General > Home page and Tools > Preferences... > General > Pop-ups > Open all pop-ups or Open pop-ups in background.

Update: Apr 29, 2007

Opera URL alias/nicknameHow to bookmark many links at once in Opera?

Comments

Kieran Keblerbombchicken Tuesday, August 15, 2006 5:12:18 PM

I was wondering how to do this. Thanks! cheers

Unregistered user Saturday, August 19, 2006 12:20:32 PM

nikzeno writes: Ok, but this will open several windows with one tab each. How to have instead one window with several tabs!??

Unregistered user Saturday, August 19, 2006 12:31:18 PM

nikzeno writes: Aha, I got it :p Just use Opera Session for that!

Unregistered user Friday, September 22, 2006 5:25:16 PM

Anonymous writes: Nikzeno- The Sessions find was great. I only spent about 2 hours trying to get that to work. My question now is this: Have you found a way to add a button, tab, anything to put in the toolbars to activate the multiple tabs, or do we have top go file/sessions/ then select the session you want?.... thanks robb

Unregistered user Saturday, December 23, 2006 8:17:20 AM

Anonymous writes: This is broken for me in 9.1. Any help?

Tamil Saturday, December 23, 2006 1:53:29 PM

This is broken for me in 9.1. Any help?

bug See Nickname as homepage not working in 9.1

Steve DarkenDarken Wednesday, March 28, 2007 1:01:32 AM

Thanx for this tip. smile

***markuss*** Thursday, July 5, 2007 11:13:05 PM

the button seems to work only in the toolbar. Is there a way to get a "go to homepages"-button in the personal bar or a button which works on both the toolbar and the personal bar?

***markuss*** Monday, July 9, 2007 8:37:21 PM

No, personal bar accepts only bookmarks, bookmark folders and search fields.

Unregistered user Monday, July 23, 2007 8:22:00 PM

Anonymous writes: I got the same effect buy just saving my desired homepage tabs as a session and then choosing "continue saved sessions" under startup options in the preferences. Everything seems to be working fine so far. I guess it's worth noting that I don't have any other saved sessions.

Unregistered user Thursday, September 3, 2009 1:24:18 PM

Anonymous writes: How to (or is there a way to) bookmark page in one click in opera ?????

Tamil Thursday, September 3, 2009 3:21:52 PM

How do you bookmark?

Unregistered user Thursday, September 3, 2009 8:24:40 PM

Anonymous writes: ctrl+d usually But i was wondering is there a way to skip winodow were i must press OK to confirm. To make something like button or keyboard shortcut ? Hope You understood me now. THX in advance and sory if i bugged you.

Tamil Thursday, September 3, 2009 11:32:38 PM

If you don't know how to edit keyboard setup see this and change the action for keyboard shortcut, d ctrl to the following. 
Add to bookmarks, 1 & Click default button

Unregistered user Tuesday, January 26, 2010 4:00:36 AM

Anonymous writes: better

Unregistered user Thursday, February 11, 2010 5:55:35 AM

Anonymous writes: Here's the easiest way to set multiple home pages in Opera 10.10. I don't know if this works for other versions: 1. Open all of the tabs that you want as home pages 2. Open File Menu 3. select Sessions 4. Select Save this Session 5. Name the Session 6. Check the box that says,"Show these tabs and windows every time I start Opera" That's it! Your done!

ConstantineUAConstantine Thursday, February 18, 2010 2:20:08 PM

Originally posted by Tamil:

If you don't know how to edit keyboard setup see this and change the action for keyboard shortcut, d ctrl to the following. 

Add to bookmarks, 1 & Click default button


And how to do it with 1 pressing? For example, "d"? When I assign in Application
d = "Add to bookmarks & Click default button"
it does not work...

Tamil Thursday, February 18, 2010 4:28:57 PM

Check whether you have enabled single-key shortcuts in Ctrl+F12 > Advanced > Shortcuts

ConstantineUAConstantine Friday, February 26, 2010 2:31:56 PM

Yes, I have. It seems this enabling works only for pre-defined single-key shortcuts.

Tamil Friday, February 26, 2010 4:23:27 PM

Did you change default keyboard shortcut, d action Highlight next element?

ConstantineUAConstantine Sunday, February 28, 2010 9:07:50 PM

No... When I did, it works properly! Thank you!!!

Another question - I add in my standard_menu (1).ini in [Hotclick Popup Menu]

Item, "Search in background" = Copy & New page & Go to page, "http://www.google.com/search?q=%c&sourceid=opera&num=%i&ie=utf-8&oe=utf-8" & Minimize page

It works perfectly for all but cyrillyc symbols. Any ideas, would you mind? smile

Tamil Sunday, February 28, 2010 10:56:20 PM

You may have to change encoding (utf-8).

Unregistered user Thursday, March 4, 2010 5:53:22 AM

J writes: Hi there, Are any of the experts know how to use opera to go fullscreen automatically on 3 monitors? i tried kiosk but only works with 1. thanks in advance for looking at this. J

Tamil Thursday, March 4, 2010 8:16:43 AM

Sorry, I don't know. Please ask in forums.

ConstantineUAConstantine Thursday, March 4, 2010 11:12:41 PM

Item, "Search in background" = Set encoding, UTF-8 & Copy & New page & Go to page, http://www.google.com/search?q=%c&sourceid=opera&num=%i&ie=utf-8&oe=utf-8" & Minimize page

did not work.

Another question - sometimes my Opera goes fullscreen, it is suddenly and strange. I do not know why. Maybe I did something wrong to it... I searched in menu file and in keyboard shortcuts with "full" but everything seems to be fine. Or maybe Opera launcher interrupts while Opera works? I turned fullscreen off in it...

ConstantineUAConstantine Friday, March 5, 2010 12:46:19 AM

And one more question: how to add to address bar a button for "Enter"? Sometimes I copy and paste URL from other applications with mouse and do not want to push Enter on keyboard...

Tamil Friday, March 5, 2010 10:49:19 AM

Originally posted by UAConstantine:

Or maybe Opera launcher interrupts while Opera works?

OperaLauncher will close immediately after completing its work.

Originally posted by UAConstantine:

how to add to address bar a button for "Enter"?

SHIFT+F12 > Buttons > Browser view > Drag & drop Go button next to address field

ConstantineUAConstantine Friday, March 5, 2010 2:04:38 PM

Thank you! It is so useful! Buttons and panels are great!!! smile

P.S.
I often
Leave fullscreen & View page bar, 0 | Enter fullscreen & View address bar, 6 & Delay, 10 & Enable scroll bars & Enable mediumscreen mode & Focus panel, "bookmarks"
and
Execute program, "D:\Program Files\Opera\OperaLauncher.exe", "/h"
because of sudden switch to fullscreen.

Tamil Friday, March 5, 2010 2:14:28 PM

I don't why Opera goes to fullscreen. sad

ConstantineUAConstantine Friday, March 5, 2010 2:15:55 PM

OK, I will search.

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Does it work in Opera?

ConstantineUAConstantine Saturday, March 6, 2010 12:54:36 AM

Thanx!

Unregistered user Thursday, April 28, 2011 9:17:20 PM

Anonymous writes: The instructions above do not work. When opening Opera after creating home folder with my wanted tabs all it tries to open in home.com

maranello69 Sunday, December 4, 2011 4:07:12 PM

same here, unable to open the bookmarks folder with the home pages, just home.com is opening sad

Unregistered user Thursday, November 22, 2012 10:32:02 PM

Anonymous writes: Using Opera12.1, The nickname works when you enter it in the address line (opening up the associated URLs under the home bookmark folder), however when the nickname is entered as the home page in preferences it tried to open up that address (in the example you provided it feverts to http://home.com ) Any other ideas to try?

Tamil Tuesday, November 27, 2012 10:53:07 AM

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