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How can I create new user profile for Opera?
I like to keep lot of open tabs, but often when I work I need to look up things every now and then. So when I need to concentrate on something, e.g. some important TO-DO-NOW, the other tabs can distract me. The best approach for me so far was to create a whole new profile and close the default one.
With *nix version of Opera, I'd can simply opera -pd ~/todo/urgent and Opera would automatically create all files and things it needs.
But on Windows, opera.exe /Settings d:\todo\urgent\ brings an error:
Error initializing Opera: module 9 (prefs)
Description of this switch on Opera's official site says:
/Settings <full path> Launch with specified settings (opera6.ini) file
so probably the .ini file is missing. Maybe I could "steal" it from somewhere, but it seems to contain quite a lot of full paths to edit, settings that I don't want to use, etc.
Is there any clean and easy way to generate new instance of user settings?
Alois Mahdal
Posted 2012-03-23T19:47:24.373
Reputation: 2 014
Checking back ages later, I can see they have added
-pdto the official help. (Can't see if it was due to my report or not...) – Alois Mahdal – 2015-09-16T16:49:02.677@AloisMahdal: according to my experience with Opera, I guess it wasn't due to your report :) – ytg – 2015-09-17T08:27:18.230
I just wish I had known it before I blasted my old profile :/ They should definitely be more clear about it at the help page
– Alois Mahdal – 2012-03-26T09:52:09.713I have just filed a bug report to Opera, with suggestion that this switch should be added to their official help. – Alois Mahdal – 2012-03-26T11:07:48.527