No idea if anyone else wants this but for a while it's bugged me that in Opera if I:
- Highlight some text
- Right click
- Choose Search with *blah*
..it then opens on the same tab. This isn't what I want. Fortunately Opera is very configurable and you can fairly easily change this functionality:
1. Open settings->prefs->advanced->toolbars
2. Highlight "Opera Standard" under Menus.
3. Click Duplicate.
4. Make sure the "copy of standard default" is highlighted (otherwise it'll not use the new file).
5. Press OK.
This has now copied the standard menu configuration file into your profile folder - this is usually somewhere like:
C:\Users\Tim\AppData\Roaming\Opera\Opera 11.00 alpha\menu
You'll find a file (with today's date and time) called "standard_menu (1).ini" if you're in the right place.
Open this file - use notepad or something equivalent. Now search for the following block of code:
Code:
[Hotclick Popup Menu]
Item, MI_IDM_SELSEARCH="Hotclick search, 200,,, "Search Web""
Submenu, MI_IDM_SEARCH_DUMMY_PARENT, Internal Search With
After the last line add:
Code:
Item, Google Search in New Tab=Copy & New page & Go to page, "http://www.google.co.uk/search?q=%c"
This will add a new menu item called "Google Search in New Tab". When you click this the search will run on a new tab and Opera will switch to it. If you'd like it to leave the new tab in the background then use this line instead:
Code:
Item, Google Search in New Tab=Copy & New page & Go to page, "http://www.google.co.uk/search?q=%c" & Minimize page
And that's it - save the file and restart opera. Select some text and right click and if you've done it right you've got a new funky menu option