Opera Tabs

[burgert]

A link you'd like to follow in a new window, you can middle-click on it. The link will be opened in a new tab window which will become active (foreground). Well, this feature just stopped working, uninstalled Opera and reinstalled it several times, no change. Is there a setting that make this useful feature work again? It does work if you click on a site from the favorites list.
Any help is appreciated.

[JPnyc]

I just looked and I can't find it either. And middle click won't open a new tab for me either. They made major changes to the interface in vers 9 and to be honest, it's even worse than it was before. It's interface is just about opera's only weakness, that and it's very slow to open, even on a fast machine.

[lgbpop]

I've got the second-latest version of Opera (haven't updated yet) and I've never seen a middle-click option. Click on Tools in the Toolbar and click on Preferences (not Quick Preferences!); under the Advanced tab, check Open new page next to active and OK your way out. That should do what you want when you click on a link.

I don't know about the slowness factor; I have 17 sites tabbed that I save on shutdown (I have the setting on Start from last time) and when I open Opera, it's 100% ready to go in 10-12 seconds or so.

[burgert]

lgbpop, thanks, but the tab still doesn't become the foreground.

[JPnyc]

That's slow, to me, lgb. Maxthon opens and loads 30 tabs in that time.

[lgbpop]

Move to Florida, that's fast here.

I've heard that a "New York minute" equals 38 seconds, izzat true?

[Crimson Blonde]

..... lmao Pop ..... more like 20 seconds


When I open preferences\advanced\Open new page next to active the middle click works fine

I didn't even know it was available to be honest until I read this

I will say it doesn't become the main page..... but it does open up in a new tab for me as well.

[mhl]

You'll get a new foreground (active) tab with <Shift> + click.

[Crimson Blonde]

Ahh yes that gives you the option to choose "open in new tab" after I selected that every link I clicked on after that was the current new tab


Thanks mhl!!

[JPnyc]

There should be an option to activate new tab without hitting a key. If not, that's a huge oversight. That would be enough to stop me using it right there.

[burgert]

Shift-Middle click-Open in new tab.....

That is the solution!

Thanks all!

[poppy4]

You'll get a new foreground (active) tab with <Shift> + click.

Thanks, great tip.

I used it in Firefox to get the new tab to open in the background, something I've been trying to do for some time.

[Nix]

Hmm and I'd heard opera never had any problems