How do I prevent Opera from switching over to the tab I opened when I click on 'Open in new tab'? This feature of Opera is driving me nuts! Is there a setting or something that I can change so that the focus remains on the current tab?
5 Answers
Ctrl+
Shift+ Click
on the link should open it in a background tab.
but the preference to not change focus to the new tab should be under
Preferences > Advanced > Tabs
EDIT: but Gnoupi says it isn't. :(
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4Actually, you would think that, but no, it's not. Check again your link, you can choose if the next tab will be maximized, or not, things like this, but you can't decide if switching or not.– GnoupiSep 1, 2009 at 12:14
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6Or, instead of choosing "Open in new tab" you choose "Open in new background tab". No additional work. Just click one line further down. Sep 1, 2009 at 12:20
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2jweede - Ctrl + Shift +Click does what I want it to do - pity I can't change it as the default setting. Thanks!– Sathyajith Bhat ♦Sep 1, 2009 at 12:28
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1@Gnoupi - Keyboard Junkie here :D would rather choose to hit Ctrl + Shift +Click rather than right click, move mouse and then choose Open in New Background– Sathyajith Bhat ♦Sep 1, 2009 at 14:05
Don't click "Open in new tab". In Opera feature you want is called "Open in Background Tab".
But IMHO best solution is to use middle mouse button click. In Preferences → Advanced → Shortcuts → Middle-Click options you can change how middle mouse button behaves (if it doesn't open in background already).
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Middle click does a Flip-3D (not that I use Flip-3d anyways), but the open in background tab does what I need– Sathyajith Bhat ♦Sep 1, 2009 at 17:12
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1Never heard of Flip3d. Is that some crapware bundled with mouse drivers? Just disable/remove it and get real middle mouse button working.– KornelSep 1, 2009 at 19:46
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Flip-3d -> is the window switcher which comes with Win Vista / 7.– Sathyajith Bhat ♦Sep 2, 2009 at 5:41
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2@Sathya: Change your settings on the Microsoft Mouse driver (assuming that's what you're using). It has this bad habit of rendering the middle-click useless by default. Feb 19, 2010 at 0:33
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@musicfreak - thanks, I have a Logitech wireless mouse, changed the settings in Set point and now its correctly configured!– Sathyajith Bhat ♦Feb 20, 2010 at 13:04
Just Middle-click on the link will open the link URL in a new background tab. If this is not working for you, Then go to Preferences. Go to Advanced tab. Select Shoutcuts. Click on "Middle Click Options" button. Here select "open in background tab" radio option. Hope this works for you. :)
I can't find an option to prevent that.
The only thing that I can advise you for now, is to "middle-click" the links you want to open in a new tab, or use Shift+Click on a link (this one switches to the new tab, not matching, so).
I'm guessing that this is "by design". If you take the time to make a right click, then clicking on "Open in a New Tab", they assume that you want to switch to it. "Assuming" is always a dangerous thing, and often leads to such problems. Pity they haven't made it an option in preferences.
Edit: I check about:config, but I can't find such option either.
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Middle click does a Flip-3D (not that I use Flip-3d anyways), but yeah with shift-click it switches over to the new tab. But yes - pity they don't have the option.– Sathyajith Bhat ♦Sep 1, 2009 at 12:27
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1You might be able to turn off the middle-click activating Flip-3D using the Mouse control panel. I've got mine set to 'middle click' and it works fine.– AntSep 3, 2009 at 15:08
If you really are a "keyboard junkie", like you said in a comment, then you can do all this from keyboard !
Solution 1 (text only) : Press /, type a part of the link, then press Ctrl+Shift+Enter.
Solution 2 (all links) : Navigate to your link using Shift+ a directional arrow (you can navigate the whole page in a directional way), then Ctrl+Shift+Enter.
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You mean navigate links using Shift + arrow keys! Ctrl+ keys goes forward/backward– Sathyajith Bhat ♦Sep 1, 2009 at 17:07