Setting custom web browser in Gnome 2.6

[sewm]

Hello,

I am a big fan of the Opera web browser and I am trying to set it to be my default web browser in gnome 2.6.

Ideally I want things to open in new tabs in the currently running Opera window (if there is one) when I click a link in some other program. I ran opera -help and found the correct command line option. It should be opera -remote openURL(url, new-page) so I put the %s where url is in the above, but gnome isn't passing the url correctly.

I've tried putting single or double quotes around parts or all of the openURL(%s, new-page) portion of the command with no success. The best I get is a new tab with http://%s/ as the url, which Opera promptly says it can't open. (I achevied this result with either single or double quotes around the whole openURL business).

Any suggestions would be appreciated..

Maybe I should just write a shell script that takes %s as it's argument and then properly passes it to Opera, but this seems a bit lame.

-Sam[/code]

[j-kidd]

Does it work if you just put "opera -newpage"?

[sewm]

Yes..

Thank you..

For some reason I got stuck in the mindset that I had to send it as a remote command

-Sam