The other day, I fired up my test install of Opera, fiddled around with the some settings, did some testing, and went about my business. I later installed a new build with some experimental changes, fired it up, switched to another application, and went back to Opera. To my surprise, five new home pages had opened and Opera was trying to create a new e-mail account. Baffled, I closed Opera and decided to give it a try again with the next build before filing a bug report.
After installing a new build, the problem persisted. The Desktop Manager (Johan) happened to be in my office, so I asked if he had seen the problem. He hadn't and once we looked at my keyboard (Kinesis Advantage) and mouse (Wacom Tablet), he was convinced it was one of my funky input devices causing the problem.
When I told Johan that Opera kept going home for no apparent reason, Opera would dutifully go home. And when I told him it was trying to create new e-mail accounts, it brought up a dialog to create a new e-mail account. Someone else in the office had even seen the same thing, so I knew I wasn't nuts. Johan was stumped, too. On a hunch, I disabled voice and the problem stopped immediately. Johan had been right, but it wasn't my mouse or keyboard causing the problem.
While testing voice the other day, I had enabled the key not required to talk
setting. From that point on, the headset sitting on my desk was doing its best to interpret my commands. What first seemed like a serious malfunction turned into a good chuckle. So, any time you think Opera is trying to mess with your mind, check your voice settings first.
