webbrowser: wrong arguments for Opera browser.

[kbumsik]

BPO	34019
Nosy	@taleinat, @pablogsal, @miss-islington, @kbumsik
PRs	bpo-34019: Fix wrong arguments for Opera Browser #8047 [3.7] bpo-34019: Fix wrong arguments for Opera Browser (GH-8047) #8063 [3.6] bpo-34019: Fix wrong arguments for Opera Browser (GH-8047) #8064 [2.7] bpo-34019: Fix wrong arguments for Opera Browser (GH-8047) #8126

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title = 'webbrowser: wrong arguments for Opera browser.'
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[kbumsik]

webbrowser module currently opens Opera Browser using the following command:

opera -remote "openURL(https://google.com,new-window)"

While this follows Opera's documentation (https://www.opera.com/docs/switches/#remote), this is broken since Opera switched from its own engine to Chromium. The working command is exactly the same as Chrome:

opera --new-window https://google.com

[pablogsal]

I can use

opera -remote "openURL(https://google.com,new-window)"

without problems as per the opera documentation with the latest version:

$opera --version
53.0.2907.110

[pablogsal]

What error do you get and what opera version are you using?

[kbumsik]

$opera --version
53.0.2907.68

$opera -remote "openURL(https://google.com,new-window)"

would open a broken link: http://openurl%28https//google.com,new-window)

I found that problem while answering a StackOverflow question: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/51123537/webbrowser-open-breaks-the-link-python-3-7

[pablogsal]

Sorry, you are right! It seems that my Opera opened another tab with Google by default and I was confused by that. Thanks for the context.

[kbumsik]

No problem :) To add more, the Opera's documentation (https://www.opera.com/docs/switches) says:

"This document was last updated for Opera 11.61"

This is the reason I guessed Opera changed its CLI format to Chrome's and forget to document it....

[pablogsal]

New changeset 3cf1f15 by Pablo Galindo (Bumsik Kim) in branch 'master':
bpo-34019: Fix wrong arguments for Opera Browser (bpo-8047)
3cf1f15

[miss-islington]

New changeset dd5f43a by Miss Islington (bot) in branch '3.6':
bpo-34019: Fix wrong arguments for Opera Browser (GH-8047)
dd5f43a

[taleinat]

Shouldn't this be backported to 2.7 as well?

[kbumsik]

I also believe this can be backported to 2.7 as well.

[pablogsal]

New changeset 8902a1d by Pablo Galindo in branch '2.7':
[2.7] bpo-34019: Fix wrong arguments for Opera Browser (GH-8047) (bpo-8126)
8902a1d

[taleinat]

Thanks for reporting the issue and the PR, Bumsik Kim!