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"Open in Firefox & Internet Explorer" in Opera right click menu

Wednesday, 2. November 2005, 09:22:57

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To open currently viewing page or link in Firefox or Internet Explorer, download Open in IE and FF.ini and place it inside menu directory in profile and go to Tools → Preferences... → Advanced → Toolbars → Menu setup → [SELECT] Open in IE and FF

[or]

If you don't know how to edit menu setup see this.

To open link in Firefox or Internet Explorer, add the following under [Link Popup Menu] and save. 

Item, Open in Firefox=Execute program, "firefox","%l"
Item, Open in Internet Explorer=Execute program, "iexplore","%l"

To open bookmarks from panel in Firefox or Internet Explorer, add the following under [Bookmark Item Popup Menu] and save. 

Item, Open in Firefox=Copy & Execute program, "firefox","%c"
Item, Open in Internet Explorer=Copy & Execute program, "iexplore","%c"

To open currently viewing page in Firefox or Internet Explorer, add the following under [Document Popup Menu] and save. 

Item, Open in Firefox=Execute program, "firefox","%u"
Item, Open in Internet Explorer=Execute program, "iexplore","%u"


Opera document popup menu
Document popup menu

Updates: May 24, 2008

"Go to Web Address/URL" in a new/background tab in Opera hot click menuUpdated posts

Comments

qicai02 30. May 2006, 04:54

good!thanks! :idea:

islamguidedotcom 14. August 2006, 15:23

Same problem here too... i can't find the above under my standard toolbar.ini which is located elsewhere from what's stated. Might be a linux specific thing or perhaps opera 9.01's changed. Any suggestions?

Thanks in advance!

Pesala 22. August 2006, 11:01

Try looking in your standard MENU ini. Paths can be found in Help, About Opera. See the link edit menu setup for details.

Anonymous 24. August 2006, 11:27

Vraana writes:

When I try the second one, to open link in IE, it opens IE, but as address it pastes anything, I copied before (with Ctrl+C), not address of the link. Is there some way to solve this?

And is there a way to make this work on bookmarks? Thx. Vraana

Tamil 25. August 2006, 08:26

Originally posted by Vraana:

When I try the second one, to open link in IE, it opens IE, but as address it pastes anything, I copied before (with Ctrl+C), not address of the link. Is there some way to solve this?

Replace %c with %l.

ArchCarrier 25. August 2006, 13:22

I'm trying to make this work as a keyboard shortcut, but I can't get it to function. It seems there is a problem with Execute program, but I don't know for sure.

Any ideas?

Dava 26. August 2006, 22:33

I take it there is no way of getting this edit to work with the right-click menu when you right-click a link. For example you would have:

Open
Open in new tab
Open in background tab
Open in Internet Explorer
etc

Dava

islamguidedotcom 27. August 2006, 12:32

Ops... I think I missed the duplicate menu entry part... no wonder i can't find my .ini file. Sorry for any inconveniences.. Btw is there a way to extend the open in background page to all new tab functions? For example in google searches, when u select open in new page in advanced preferences, clicking on search results will force you into the new page. Would be nice if it were to open in a background page...

Also, is there a way to bind the window list to a shortcut key? I can't find the function name in the shortcuts menus. The window list manifests itself as a clickable arrow on the right side of the tab bar when u select 'show extender menu' under the customize toolbar option. Thanks in advance!

RADicaLMMS 1. October 2006, 23:35

Awesome!

Anonymous 28. November 2006, 01:20

lostlad writes:

hey ArchCarrier

Dont suppose you this to work with shortcut?

Or did anyone for that matter been searching but cant find help...

ArchCarrier 22. March 2007, 18:59

No, I still have to use the mouse to do it...

Anonymous 24. May 2007, 17:07

mathiastck writes:

I'm looking for extensions to make IE, Opera, and Firefox behave more like each other. I want cntrl t, cntrl w, cntrl n and whatever the other top shortcuts to be the same, for me, on all 3. I can conform a little, but I'll assume it's microsoft that isn't playing nice.

Anonymous 7. June 2007, 18:06

ars writes:

Hi, This is really neat but I can't get it to work on the Mac. Any idea how I should change the following lines to launch Safari or Firefox?

Item, Open in Firefox=Execute program, "firefox","%l"
Item, Open in Internet Explorer=Execute program, "iexplore","%l"

Thanks!

Tamil 7. June 2007, 18:11

This is really neat but I can't get it to work on the Mac. Any idea how I should change the following lines to launch Safari or Firefox?

Change firefox to full path to Firefox or Safari and try.

Anonymous 13. June 2007, 01:59

Anonymous writes:

I downloaded the Windows version of Safari today and updated my toolbar, and all that happens is Safari opens up with my default page (blank for me). No loading the page at all. IE and Firefox both work as expected.

Anonymous 16. January 2008, 02:52

paul writes:

fantastic. thanks much.

Anonymous 18. January 2008, 12:18

Anonymous writes:

why would like to do something like that whats the point of opening other browser windows in another browser ? Using up ur spare RAM by having 3 browsers open?

mjjack 19. March 2008, 15:35

Re: getting the buttons to work on Mac OSX

Change firefox to full path to Firefox or Safari and try.


This doesn't work for me. I also tired replacing firefox with "open -a firefox" which works from a terminal but that didn't work either. Any ideas??? I'd love to be able to get this to work. And if we can do this with FF we can get an open with Safari button too :smile:

Has anyone else been able to get these to work on OSX? I've been searching all over the place but haven't found anything. Unless I'm not entering the full path correctly.... (should be /Applications/Firefox ?? Mine is actually in /Applications/Browsers/Firefox)

Tamil 19. March 2008, 15:41

@mjjack, please ask in forums.

Anonymous 24. May 2008, 00:02

Kevin writes:

Is there a way to do this for the bookmark items? i.e. right click a bookmark item and say "open in FF"?

Tamil 24. May 2008, 02:15

:yes: See updated post.

Anonymous 24. May 2008, 03:59

Kevin writes:

The bookmark link solution didn't work for me. I don't think %c is the right command?
When I tried opening a bookmark item with firefox (Open in Firefox), it just opened one tab in firefox for every space delimited token of the 2 lines I just added to the ini file.
i.e. firefox tried to load web pages with urls:
"item,"
"open"
"in"
"firefox"

...and so on...

with IE, I get redirected to a Yahoo search page with search words being the tokens I described above.

can anyone else confirm this?
this is on Opera 9.26 on Windows

Tamil 24. May 2008, 04:04

Sorry, I forget to include Copy &.

Anonymous 24. May 2008, 04:19

Kevin writes:

Thanks...worked!

andrew!! 17. June 2008, 12:46

For Mac users, use the full path to the executable file of the program. For example, Firefox :
"/Applications/Firefox.app/Contents/MacOS/firefox-bin"

Anonymous 7. August 2008, 20:30

kaykay writes:

Dude you just helped me resolve an important problem. I simply gave on opera this time. I'd installed some stupid add-on for IE called bulk image downloader, it also integrates with opera and b4 i knew my right only showed option to view or downlaod the page with bulk image downlaoder, i even reinstalled opera but the problem only got solved when i deleted the option frm Tools → Preferences... → Advanced → Toolbars → Menu setup →

It's bcos of yr post dat i am back on opera thaks a lot and keep up the good work

nizamx 20. September 2008, 14:31

Very useful, thanks Tamil.

Tamil 20. September 2008, 14:41

By default, Opera 9.50 has "Open with" functionality.

Anonymous 16. December 2008, 14:00

Anonymous writes:

By default, Opera 9.50 has "Open with" functionality.

It would be useful also a way to customize 'Open with'.

Mine is somewhat redundant with many non_required entries and with some missed also. These last ones are those with frugal/non_intrusive installations, such as in my case 'firefox', installed via frugal *.tar.bz package and not with a sytem_wide_deep_install as a .deb package does in a linux system.

R2_ 25. December 2008, 16:14

Open in Chrome works the sabe, i just replaced "chrome" with the exe full path ans stated befor :smile: Thanks a lot.
And seems like it takes much more time to open chrome whis way then normal shortcut... no wonder why opera still the best.

Anonymous 6. March 2009, 19:59

Alex writes:

How to open with IE link from Andress String (Go Widget Popup Menu) ?

Tamil 6. March 2009, 23:30

Add the following. 
Item, Open in Internet Explorer=Copy & Execute program, "iexplore","%c"

Anonymous 18. May 2009, 08:23

Anonimo writes:

trying to substitute "firefox.exe" with the full path of my portable version of firefox but it doesn't work.... : "no application associated to this extension".Any idea?

Of course it works nicely with Explorer...uff!

Many thanks

Anonymous 18. May 2009, 12:28

Anonimo writes:

ok, solved...sorry...I was using the path of the link instead of that of the real executable.

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