Adding an extension in developer mode *without* drag & drop

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7. May 2012, 19:02:25

Carpetsmoker

Posts: 36

Adding an extension in developer mode *without* drag & drop

The Opera Extension documentation says:

"You can simply drag and drop the config.xml onto an open Opera window or its application icon, and the extension will be activated in the so-called “developer mode”."

Very useful. However, I don't have any graphical file browser, and I'd prefer to keep it that way wink

Is there any way to open an extension in developer mode without drag & drop? I tried using File -> Open and I looked at the commandline options with opera -help ...

Thanks!

24. May 2012, 09:59:57

Opera Software

daniel

Mac product tester, Opera Software

Posts: 1253

I don’t think there is, sorry.

Only thing that comes to mind is to quit Opera and manually edit the widgets.dat file listing the extensions. To set an extension in developer mode, you only need to point it’s source listing at the root folder of the extension.

8. June 2012, 08:23:03

gromnitsky

Posts: 3

This works for me in 11.64 under FreeBSD: in the root directory of an extension (where your config.xml file is) just type

$ opera config.xml


And Opera opens 'Manage Extensions' tab & installs the extension in developer mode.

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