[OU] Opera 9.5 not opening web pages

[David Haycock]

On Mon, 23 Jun 2008 20:12:14 +0800, Katrina Knight <kknight at operamail.com>  
wrote:

> At 03:43 AM 06/23/2008 Malcolm Austen wrote:
>> On Mon, 23 Jun 2008 06:58:41 +0100, David Haycock
>> <average41 at iinet.net.au>
>> wrote:
>>
>> > I am using 9.5 with only one problem as I see it. When
>> trying to open a
>> > url from an external source all I get is a blank page. That
>> is if using a
>> > different program I click on help, then connect to web page
>> it will open
>> > the browser but only with a blank page.
>
>> I had this while running 9.5 beta alongside 9.2x and never did
>> track it  down to a specific cause.
>
> I had it happen several times too.
>
>> Open up Windows Explorer > Tools > Folder Options > File Types
>>
>> Select the HTM or HTML file extension > Advanced > Open > Edit
>>
>> You should see it opens with:
>>       "C:\Program Files\Opera\opera.exe" "%1"
>> but I found it had dropped the tail occasionally to:
>>       "C:\Program Files\Opera\opera.exe" "
>
> That will fix problems with opening html files. If you need to
> fix problems with opening urls, you need to edit "URL Hypertext
> Transfer Protocol" and possibly "URL Hypertext Transfer Protocol
> with privacy" as well.
>


I seem to have found a solution to opera not opening urls, at least at the  
moment it's working.
See page:-   dannydouglass.com/post/2008/01/  
Windows---Issues-Setting-Default-Browser.aspx
This is a slightly different situation so I changed the vista registry  
entries from opera.protocol to opera.url and it now works ok.
(By the way I couldn't get the above page to open so I used the cached  
version, after doing a search for "URL Hypertext Transfer Protocol vista  
opera").
DaveH