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Why does an external link open as private tab in Opera?
I am not sure someone if you facethis kind of problem but it is very interesting. One of our user says when he click an external link from anywhere(such as windows live messenger ) the page opens in Opera but as private tabs.First time, He is being used Win Vista and he deleted profile folder and its corrected.
Second time, he sets up Wİn7 and the problem occured again with new Opera 10.53
Does anyone notice this kind of problem?
My friend deleted all profile and set a clean install and corrcted.. Interesnting, solved the problem.
I too have this problem. However until 10.53, they were opening in normal mode. It would be perfect to make a setting for that matter.
Same problem here, Win 7 64bit. When i installed it, everything was working as expected. A day or two later this problem began.
Found the fix:
1. Shut Opera down.
2. Open IE (suppose any other browser will do too) - set as default browser (check if it worked - new pages shouldn't open in Opera anymore) - shut IE down.
3. Restart Opera and click yes on default browser prompt dialog (if you disabled it - go to Settings/Preferences/Advanced/Programs and tick the box to check if opera is a default browser, restart).
4. Now click on any external link - the problem should be fixed!
1. Shut Opera down.
2. Open IE (suppose any other browser will do too) - set as default browser (check if it worked - new pages shouldn't open in Opera anymore) - shut IE down.
3. Restart Opera and click yes on default browser prompt dialog (if you disabled it - go to Settings/Preferences/Advanced/Programs and tick the box to check if opera is a default browser, restart).
4. Now click on any external link - the problem should be fixed!
Originally posted by ender5000:
Found the fix:
1. Shut Opera down.
2. Open IE (suppose any other browser will do too) - set as default browser (check if it worked - new pages shouldn't open in Opera anymore) - shut IE down.
3. Restart Opera and click yes on default browser prompt dialog (if you disabled it - go to Settings/Preferences/Advanced/Programs and tick the box to check if opera is a default browser, restart).
4. Now click on any external link - the problem should be fixed!
I had the same problem and this solved it.
Thanks a lot, that was really annoying !
Hmmm, it sort of solved it....
it doesn't open it any more in a private tab, but I have something interesting happening now (I tried it with Firefox instead of IE, IE for some reason doesn't check for being default browser despite the tick box being set for that):
If I click now a Link: It opens 2 (!) Tabs with the same link AND a IE (Blank or default) browser window..... weird....
Did anybody file a big report already for that?
it doesn't open it any more in a private tab, but I have something interesting happening now (I tried it with Firefox instead of IE, IE for some reason doesn't check for being default browser despite the tick box being set for that):
If I click now a Link: It opens 2 (!) Tabs with the same link AND a IE (Blank or default) browser window..... weird....
Did anybody file a big report already for that?
Originally posted by marwerno:
Did anybody file a big report already for that?
Doesn't look like a Opera bug for me. It's windows that decides which program to use to open web links, the same way you can choose to open *.txt files in notepad, wordpad or any other program. I'd try to reset it again until it works fine.
Well, there are 2 things to it:
Bug 1:
Opera opening "private" tabs when opening opera from a external link. It seems to "reset: itself when applying above mentioned "fix".
Either Opera is incompatible with a Windows setting (or maybe even a New Windows Update, which would not be unheard of) or Windows messes in some other way with Opera.
Which ever way: even if it is a fault of Windows, MS is unlikely to do a favor for a competitor and therefore it will leave it for Opera to fix it.
Bug 2:
(Which I seem to be the only one having it)
Opera opening 2 Tabs AND a IE Explorer window (I had it before almost the same, without the IE window opening)
OK, this might have something to do with my machine or they way I messed around in the Registry (Which normally I am familiar with).
However: If I assign Firefox, Seamonkey or IE as default browser, none of them behave this way. Which makes again Opera the only one, and therefore they doing something not quite right.
Even after messing about in the Registry: This should be set straight again after re-installing Opera, which Opera didn't (So it might rely on some setting being "untouched" in the registry which might however be a good idea to check and correct if necessary with a clean install).
Bug 1:
Opera opening "private" tabs when opening opera from a external link. It seems to "reset: itself when applying above mentioned "fix".
Either Opera is incompatible with a Windows setting (or maybe even a New Windows Update, which would not be unheard of) or Windows messes in some other way with Opera.
Which ever way: even if it is a fault of Windows, MS is unlikely to do a favor for a competitor and therefore it will leave it for Opera to fix it.
Bug 2:
(Which I seem to be the only one having it)
Opera opening 2 Tabs AND a IE Explorer window (I had it before almost the same, without the IE window opening)
OK, this might have something to do with my machine or they way I messed around in the Registry (Which normally I am familiar with).
However: If I assign Firefox, Seamonkey or IE as default browser, none of them behave this way. Which makes again Opera the only one, and therefore they doing something not quite right.
Even after messing about in the Registry: This should be set straight again after re-installing Opera, which Opera didn't (So it might rely on some setting being "untouched" in the registry which might however be a good idea to check and correct if necessary with a clean install).
