New Opera Tabs from KDE Applications

I use Opera, and I use Kontact, Kopete, and the many other KDE applications. So Opera is sort-of the sore thumb in the mix. But it can integrate with the KDE Desktop almost as well as Konqueror itself, plus it renders more quickly and handles javascripts better (in my experience).

But I had one very annoying problem until today: After setting KDE Component Chooser to use /usr/bin/opera as the web browser, opening new links would replace the current tab. That is not a big deal, until the user wants to open a few different stores from aKgregator, and each URI open sin the previous stories’ page.

But the fix is simple enough (though not in the man page, it is in opera –help). Instead of mucking around with the remote flag, just use the newpage flag itself. The complete command (as shown in the screen capture) should be /usr/bin/opera -newpage

Opera for Linux seems to have a few more small quirks about it, and I hope to document their cures as time passes.