On a daily basis Opera and FeedDemon are two of my most used applications, the others being Outlook, Visual Studio and ProDG. A while ago I came across an extension by Rijk van Geijtenbeek which adds an option to Opera’s context-menu allowing you to right-click on the URL of an RSS feed and subscribe in FeedDemon.

This works great, however Opera 9 added an incredibly useful content (read: advert) blocker to the default menus which is not available in Rijk’s pre-Opera 9 offering. To rectify this I’ve created a new version which takes the menus as-shipped in Opera 9 and adds “Send To FeedDemon” options.

To install follow these steps;

1. Within Opera go to the “Help” menu and choose “About”
2. Look for the path titled “Opera directory”, within this directory create a new directory called “menu” if it does not exist.
3. Download the file below and place it in this directory.
4. In Opera, go to Tools->Preferences, select the Advanced Tab and choose “Toolbars” on the left.
5. In “Menu Setup” select the Opera9 FeedDemon extension, then click ok.
6. Voila!

http://www.andrewgrant.org/public/opera/menu/Opera9_FeedDemon_Menu_Extention.ini

Note; I’ve noticed that some people seem to be able to create extensions that Opera appears to recognise when clicked upon. I’ve no idea how this is done, however I suspect it relies on the files being hosted somewhere on the Opera domain.

Update: Andrew Herron tells me that this is achieved by changing the application type for to x-opera-configuration-menu via an .htaccess entry. I’ve tried this to no avail, I already modify .htaccess for some things so I can only assume my hosts (AQHost) webserver is setup to prevent this type of rewrite. I had problems getting pings and trackbacks to work in Wordpress as they block access to xmlrpc.php so this wouldn’t surprise me, although I should mention other than these two things I’ve found them to be an excellent hosting service.