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Ways to open Opera bookmark/link/go to URL/search in new tab

Monday, April 24, 2006 5:21:55 AM

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Keyboard Shortcuts

Shift + Click/Enter/Left click - Bookmark/Link/Go to Web Address/Search will open in new tab

Ctrl + Click/Enter/Left click (Opera 11.50 & above) - Bookmark/Link/Go to Web Address/Search will open in background tab

Ctrl + Shift + Click/Enter/Left click - Bookmark/Link/Go to Web Address/Search will open in background tab

Mouse Gestures

Point link, hold right mouse button and move down - Link will open in new tab

Point link, hold right mouse button and move down then up - Link will open in background tab

Others

To open search results & bookmarks in new tab
Opera 9: Tools > Preferences... > Advanced > Tabs > [DISABLE] Reuse current tab
Opera 8: Tools > Preferences... > Advanced > Browsing > [DISABLE] Reuse current tab

Configure mouse middle click action
Tools > Preferences... > Advanced > Shortcuts > Middle-Click Options... [or] Shift + Mouse middle click

Opera mouse middle-click options
Mouse middle-click options

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Comments

Joseph Mostardadrygnfyre Friday, August 11, 2006 5:13:23 AM

Thanks! I never realized just how much you can accomplish with mouse gestures. Is there a way in Opera 9.01 to always have the search bar open its results in a new tab, without having to do the shift+enter combo? I know that it's possible to uncheck "re-use current tab," but I only want this to affect the search bar, and not all the tabs in general.

Tamil Friday, August 11, 2006 5:41:31 AM

AFAIK it is not possible.

islamguidedotcom Saturday, August 12, 2006 11:23:06 PM

drygnfyre: I think you can default to open search results in new tab through editing the google's preferences in the search page itself. i.e Check the Open in new page checkbox. However, this feature opens it in a new tab and steals focus from the search page. This inevitably makes open all browse later rather difficult. Any workarounds greatly appreciated.....

Currently, I use a customized mouse gesture. Right click the link and drag down or up or right or left to open in new background tab. Though it's nice to have the above option to single click when opening in background tab since its a lot more frequent.

btw, in some browsers like konqueror, enabling this option automatically opens the new search results in a background tab.

Regards
islamguidedotcom

del123 Friday, September 1, 2006 12:38:30 AM

Look at what i just put together:

[Hotclick Popup Menu]
Item, Google = copy & new page & go to page, "http://www.google.com/search?q=%c"
Item, Google images= copy & new page & go to page, "http://images.google.com/images?q=%c"

And it even works, woohoo smile.

del123 Friday, September 1, 2006 12:52:09 AM

And here's the open background work around:

Item, Google background = copy & new page & go to page, "http://www.google.com/search?q=%c" & cycle to next page
Item, Google images background = copy & new page & go to page, "http://images.google.com/images?q=%c" & cycle to next page

del123 Friday, September 1, 2006 1:05:16 AM

For the second one to work you first have to set:
opera:config#UserPrefs|WindowCycleType to 2 (no list)
opera:config#UserPrefs|AlternativePageCycleMode to 0 (recently used order)

islamguidedotcom Saturday, September 2, 2006 8:14:19 AM

del123, Neat.. one drawback however, that entails having to right click the link first; somewhat as tedious as my hold right click, move somewhere approach.

Firefox has this option through an extension called tab mix plus. There's an option to force all targets leading to pages outside of the current domain to be opened in a new tab and another which forces all pages in the current domain to open in the same page itself. The above coupled with open in background tab(customizable in what situation; search bar, address bar etc.) addresses the above problem.

Hope a similar feature could be ported to opera..

Regards

GhostRidah Monday, October 16, 2006 12:57:16 AM

I like the bookmarks opening in a new tab but how do you make it so it doesnt open in a new tab unless I mouse middle click?

Tamil Monday, October 16, 2006 1:30:16 AM

Originally posted by GhostRidah:

I like the bookmarks opening in a new tab but how do you make it so it doesnt open in a new tab unless I mouse middle click?

To disable bookmarks open in new tab, CTRL+F12 ⇒ Advanced ⇒ Tabs ⇒ [CHECK] Reuse current tab

You can't middle click on bookmarks.

nirajroy Monday, August 27, 2007 8:39:58 AM

Hi,
I have serious objection on putting the Lord Hanuman's image on this post like this.
This seems to be an insult of such a greate personality.
The work he has carried should not be represented in the shameful way.
I request every body in this group should oppose this.

I have a serious question why only hindu gods are always shown in this dirty way ?
And stop doing all these nonce.
Mr. Opera find some good role model to suite your need to advertise you. But don't heart anybody feeling specially in relegious matter.

Anonymous Tuesday, August 28, 2007 8:26:19 AM

MD writes: Request you to kindly remove God Hanumans picture showing opera browser shown "O" symbol in the hands of Lord Hanuman instead of 'Nilgiri mountant'and respect peace loving hindu peoples sentiments.

Anonymous Tuesday, August 28, 2007 12:48:32 PM

Abhishek Pai writes: Site managers please remove the image of Lord Hanuman from your banner immediately... Our deities are not meant for stupid manipulation and your advertisement. What does the stupid banner signify anyway? The is a beautiful story behind Lord Hanuman carrying the Nilgiris... please dont resort to such denigratio of Hindu deities when you feel the need to devise banners or advertise... I hope you will not overlook our sentiments and will immediately change the banner. Thank you

Anonymous Tuesday, August 28, 2007 1:19:30 PM

Anonymous writes: You are showing your symboll in hand of Lord Hanuman which is rediculous.How you can do the insult of God by showing such thing . You should immediately change the photo and appoligize your mistake. We pray to God and your doing the insult ,Can u do the same thing by taking picture of Mohaamed Paigamber

Anonymous Tuesday, August 28, 2007 7:49:57 PM

KC writes: Not to shift the main context of your blog, but the picture of Hanuman is absolutely wonderful. Please dont pay attention to shortsighted commenters as the one above. Your blog is fascinating and keep up the good work.

Anonymous Sunday, September 2, 2007 6:08:37 PM

Anonymous writes: Your objections to using Lord Hanuman are noted. Now get over it. (Personally, I'd like to see the "Virgin" Mary with a Big O. Now *that* would be funny!)

Anonymous Wednesday, October 17, 2007 12:18:10 AM

rajeev writes: Please remove the image of god hanuman as it is inappropriate here. Thanks rajeev

Anonymous Monday, November 19, 2007 8:46:22 PM

Anonymous writes: yes, fictional characters are highly inappropriate, look at Harry Potter for instance, if he was at the top of the page I'd be outraged!

Anonymous Wednesday, December 19, 2007 5:09:03 AM

Zubin writes: Question about the Shift-Enter command. This doesn't open my search in a new tab when I am using the search field, any workarounds? (using v. 9.24 for Mac). Also, how can I set that shortcut? If i set anything to "open url in new page", it simply doesn't work.

Tamil Wednesday, December 19, 2007 7:05:20 AM

Originally posted by Zubin:

Question about the Shift-Enter command. This doesn't open my search in a new tab when I am using the search field , any workarounds? (using v. 9.24 for Mac).

It works in Windows.

Anonymous Friday, December 28, 2007 2:03:41 PM

Anonymous writes: Is there a way of making tabs open in the background with URL addresses invoked from the address bar, the Opera bookmarks etc. without the use of hotkey combos? Thanks in advance.

Tamil Friday, December 28, 2007 2:05:54 PM

Is there a way of making tabs open in the background with URL addresses invoked from the address bar, the Opera bookmarks etc. without the use of hotkey combos?

AFAIK, it is not possible.

MCHAL Friday, December 28, 2007 2:23:59 PM

Hi, Tamil:

Thanks for your attention. This is a real shame. Browsers like Firefox (through a special extension, ok) and K-Meleon feature this option. It's high time a famous and widely used browser like Opera implemented this option. Can't understand why it doesn't offer it yet.

My best regards.

Brazil

bpm Friday, January 11, 2008 12:03:13 AM

One more for the "keyboard shortcuts" list: Shift + underlined selector character on bookmarks menu. (Unfortunately the Shift + Ctrl variant does not open in background.)

Tamil Friday, January 11, 2008 4:59:09 AM

Originally posted by bpm:

Unfortunately the Shift + Ctrl variant does not open in background.

Works fine.

bpm Friday, January 11, 2008 7:19:23 AM

? Real difference, or misunderstanding? Meant Shift+Ctrl+(underlined character on bookmarks menu); doesn't work here.

Anonymous Sunday, February 17, 2008 2:24:38 PM

GuestWatt writes: Shift+Ctrl works fine for me as well, but underlinded character on bookmarks menu? Where is it that I myself can't spot anywhere? By the way (sorry for being a bit off-topic), wow! Opera latest beta is way faster than Firefox, both for loading and browsing pages, even when compared against the new Gran Paradiso latest beta! :D

bpm Monday, February 18, 2008 6:59:14 AM

Alt+b drops the bookmark menu; look at it - each item has a character underlined. You can select an item using (cursor plus click), (arrow keys plus Enter), or the underlined character.

Anonymous Monday, February 18, 2008 11:22:38 AM

GuessWatt writes: I know what accellerators are all about. Only I didn't undestand how their use could be possible in the address bar (I kind of somehow misread "bookmark menu" for "address bar field" - hence my wrong unbeleaving supposition) and which purpose this would serve. And you're right: the bookmark menu items do not open in background tabs when invoked through their accelerators.

Anonymous Friday, June 13, 2008 11:36:58 PM

Charlie writes: Until yesterday, when I updated to Opera 9.5, everything was fine. But now I can't open bookmarks and adresses input in F2 "open a link" in a new tab. I DO (!) have unchecked "reuse current tab". Can anybody helps? Thanks.

Tamil Friday, June 13, 2008 11:58:41 PM

Can you open in new tab when you press SHIFT key?

Anonymous Saturday, June 14, 2008 6:25:31 AM

Charlie writes: Yes, I can. Am I convicted to press SHIFT key all along? What is that option "reuse current tab" good for when it doesn't affect the browsing? And why was everything fine before update? I havn't changed anything. Thanks.

nizamx Monday, September 22, 2008 2:50:27 PM

How can we open a not clickable link in new tab. Example selecting _www.google.com and on right click menu pressing open in new tab

I tried adding this but didn't work.

[Hotclick Popup Menu]
Item, MI_IDM_MENU_PAGEBAR_LINK_IN_NEW_PAGE =Copy & new page,"%c"

Tamil Monday, September 22, 2008 3:07:07 PM

Use the following.
Item, Go to Web Address in New Tab = Copy & New page & Go to page, "%c"

nizamx Monday, September 22, 2008 3:29:13 PM

I think to my self What a wonderful trick.

wiredup Tuesday, March 3, 2009 1:26:50 PM

I installed Opera 9.64 today. I was hoping it would fix this problem from Opera 9.63: Shift+Click does not work for site search. The search results page opens in the same tab. I am referring to the custom site search buttons: http://operawiki.info/PowerButtons#sitesearch - When one clicks the custom button a search window pops up. One enters search terms and clicks OK. Google then searches the site. If one holds down the shift key when clicking the OK button it is supposed to open a results page in a new tab.

Tamil Tuesday, March 3, 2009 2:20:35 PM

SHIFT+Click won't work in buttons.

Anonymous Friday, April 17, 2009 11:31:46 AM

Neikius writes: A friend of mine doesn't wanna swap that memory hog of a firefox becouse he uses a specially customized toolbar with bookmarks in folders. Then he middle-clicks the entries to open in new tab. Now in opera, this can only be done (as far as I know) by disabling the tab reuse feature you mentioned and left clicking. But its not the same... no matter what I do, I cannot change anything for toolbars. Those are so inflexible. Or if there were just some way to load bookmark sidebar on top...

Kunjaankunjaan Wednesday, May 27, 2009 3:43:24 AM

Hi this was a nice post. But could you please help me redefine Shift+Ctrl + Click to just Ctrl+Click. I cant seem to find the correct setting to change. Thank You.

Tamil Wednesday, May 27, 2009 5:35:21 AM

Not possible.

Anonymous Saturday, July 11, 2009 10:20:35 PM

Johan writes: Oh well... Not being able to middle click bookmark links and make them open in another tab is veeery frustrating. It's so intuitive in Firefox doing that. For me using Opera now is like constantly discovering that your shoelaces are tied together when you try to walk. I think it's about fifty-fifty I want to open bookmarks in the same or another tab, so I'd get equally irritated making bookmarks always open in new tabs. Having to use both hands when opening a bookmark is not very convenient. And it's simply strange not having a right click/menu option on bookmarks. This should be a really small thing to fix for Opera. There is an existing setting for what middle clicking on links should do, but for some reason it doesn't work on bookmark links? (My what a deja-vu feeling I got now... maybe I've written something similar some years ago?) Anyway, many thanks for your Opera tips'n'tricks and support Tamil, it's very appreciated!

Tamil Sunday, July 12, 2009 12:39:59 AM

Originally posted by anonymous:

There is an existing setting for what middle clicking on links should do, but for some reason it doesn't work on bookmark links?

It won't work in bookmarks.

Anonymous Sunday, July 12, 2009 8:35:31 PM

Anonymous writes: How do I switch open background tab from Ctrl Shift Click to just Shift Click? Thanks!

Tamil Monday, July 13, 2009 4:42:56 AM

Not possible.

crash71 Sunday, July 26, 2009 8:23:34 AM

Apparently Opera wont let you change any of the "CLICK" options. Which seems completely backwards to have to use AutoHotkey for something so basic.

I wanted to make it so clicking on a item in bookmarks does nothing (aside from selecting it), and CTRL+Click opens in a NewTab and Shift+Click opens in a background Tab. But gee not possible. Ugh.

The only way to even select multiple items in the bookmark panel is to 'right click' on one, then Shift+right click on another... else all of the bookmarks you just selected will open. This is extremely unintuitive.

crash71 Saturday, August 1, 2009 11:49:02 AM

Originally posted by kunjaan:

kunjaan 27. May 2009, 03:43

Hi this was a nice post. But could you please help me redefine Shift+Ctrl + Click to just Ctrl+Click. I cant seem to find the correct setting to change. Thank You.


If you use AutoHotKey, with a mouse that has extra buttons (that you can define as CTRL and SHIFT) heres
one that works for:
CTRL +Click = Open New Tab in Foreground
SHIFT+Click = Open New Tab in Background
#ifWinActive, ahk_class OpWindow
{
	~LButton:: 
	{
		if GetKeyState("Shift") == 1
		{
			Send, ^{LButton}
		}
		else
		if GetKeyState("Ctrl") == 1
		{
			Send, {Ctrl Up}+{LButton}{Ctrl DownTemp}
		}
	}
	return
; Heres Where you would insert the 2 lines below
; If you wanted to use Keyboard Ctrl/Shift.
}
return

Unfortunately (code) blocks above are removing Tabs, its really not formatted that badly over here.

If you want to use the keyboard, add these:
	$+LButton:: Send, +^{LButton}
	$^LButton:: Send, {Ctrl Up}+{LButton}{Ctrl DownTemp}
If you only want to use a keyboard for the Shift/Ctrl Keys, then remove the "~LButton::" block.

allouh Monday, August 31, 2009 8:09:09 AM

I re-defined dictionary from right click menu to use google translate engine and i used this line:
Item, MI_IDM_SELDICTIONARY=Go to page, "javascript:var t=((window.getSelection&&window.getSelection())||(document.getSelection&&document.getSelection())||(document.selection&&document.selection.createRange&&document.selection.createRange().text));var e=(document.charset||document.characterSet);if(t!=''){location.href='http://translate.google.com/translate_t?text='+t+'&hl=en&langpair=auto|en&tbb=1&ie='+e;}else{location.href='http://translate.google.com/translate?u='+escape(location.href)+'&hl=en&langpair=auto|en&tbb=1&ie='+e;};"

But i alway get the translation in the same page even i disabled "Reuse current tab".
is there some alternative to the link above or something to modify.
I tried to use this line instead the above one:
Item, MI_IDM_SELDICTIONARY=Go to page, "http://translate.google.com/translate_t?text=%t&hl=en&langpair=auto|en&tbb=1&ie=utf-8"

This one work for opening translation in new tab but it doesn't support chinese and japanese text.
Can you help with this?

Tamil Monday, August 31, 2009 10:04:06 AM

Please ask in forums.

sirius murasuryamura Wednesday, October 28, 2009 1:43:42 AM

Not yet

Anonymous Friday, December 25, 2009 3:45:28 AM

minhhale writes: I've been looking for some way to open search results in new tab ever since I started to use Opera, and here it is... Thanks a lot, man!!

Anonymous Friday, December 25, 2009 8:33:13 PM

BC writes: Just writing to agree with Anonymous above (well, apparently he's named Johan, actually) about the frustration with bookmarks. It's almost enough to drive me away from Opera altogether, this inability to right-click bookmarks. Makes me nuts having to go to "Manage Bookmarks," navigate to the one in question, right click it, click "Properties," then edit from there -- just to tweak the display name or what have you. Is there something stopping the Opera development team from incorporating this really simple functionality? I mean, do these people not use bookmarks on a regular basis or something, and thus not realize how immensely annoying it is?

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