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    • robor10t
      robor10t @A Former User last edited by leocg

      @leocg It's 100% coming from my bookmarks. Otherwise it would be one hell of a coincidence for a Google suggestion to have it's top suggestion be the exact page I bookmarked 7 months ago but haven't visited since! It's exactly the same with all the other top suggestions that are from my bookmarks - they are my exact bookmarks!

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      • burnout426
        burnout426 Volunteer @robor10t last edited by

        @robor10t said in Why have my bookmarks started appearing as suggestions in the Google search bar auto complete?:

        I hear Vivaldi doesn't do this.

        It has an "include bookmarks" checkbox for this at vivaldi://settings/addressbar/ that you can uncheck.

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        • leocg
          leocg Moderator Volunteer @robor10t last edited by

          @robor10t Did you erase your bookmarks?

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          • robor10t
            robor10t @burnout426 last edited by

            @burnout426 Nice. Thank you for that!

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            • robor10t
              robor10t @leocg last edited by

              @leocg No. Why on earth would I erase all of my bookmarks?? That would defeat the point of using bookmarks in the first instance, wouldn't it?

              I erased one specific one as a test this evening (after already having deleted my ENTIRE browser history after reinstalling Opera) and the 1st search suggestion linked to the word I typed in was still the bookmark that I erased!

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              • leocg
                leocg Moderator Volunteer @robor10t last edited by

                @robor10t So, if you didn't erase your bookmarks, then you know from where the suggestions are coming.

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                • robor10t
                  robor10t @leocg last edited by leocg

                  @leocg I am well aware where the suggestions are coming from.

                  What I want to know is why my bookmarks have suddenly started appearing as suggestions!

                  Have you even read just the title of my post..?

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                  • leocg
                    leocg Moderator Volunteer @robor10t last edited by

                    @robor10t Because, as I said, this is how Opera was designed to work. Your installation probably had some problem that was preventing it from work like it should but now has been fixed.

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                    • robor10t
                      robor10t @leocg last edited by

                      @leocg If you've already said it, there is no need to repeat it. I can read. Better than you, apparently.

                      You can feel free to stop responding as you have been absolutely no help whatsoever and I don't have the time or patience to converse with useless morons. At least @burnout426 offered a couple of suggestions. You've done nothing. I imagine that's par for the course for someone like you who likes the sound of his own voice.

                      I'll be stopping using your crappy browser and going elsewhere.

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                      • fiambredunicornio
                        fiambredunicornio last edited by

                        Hey! I've been having the same problem recently. I've always had my bookmarks but they never appeared as sugestions on the search bar until like a month ago. It was just annoying at first but now I'm constantly going to some random bookmark by mistake and it's really getting on my nerves. I found myself having to write a full address because the sugestions just don't work. It worked perfectly before and i've been using opera for like 2 years now i think.

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                        • robor10t
                          robor10t @fiambredunicornio last edited by

                          @fiambredunicornio So it's not just me! Yep, the same happened to me - Opera just randomly decided one day that it was going to use my bookmarks as the first suggestions when I type something in the address bar. I have no idea why and I don't want it. It's really frustrating. If I want to go to a bookmarked page, that's what bookmarks are for! There's literally no good reason for them to start popping up as suggestions when I start typing.

                          I don't have any solutions for it either. Since my OP I've reinstalled a clean version of Windows 10 (for a different reason) and reinstalled everything and it STILL happens. The really weird thing is that it still tries to suggest pages that I had bookmarked previously, but have since deleted the bookmark. So I have no idea where it's even pulling some of the suggestions from if the bookmark's been deleted.

                          No suggestions on this page worked for me and some people were ignorantly unhelpful to the point I suspect they're autistic. This is what Opera is now. I suspect they must have released an update or something along the way as this wouldn't just suddenly happen for no reason when it didn't function like this previously.

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                          • burnout426
                            burnout426 Volunteer last edited by

                            There's a new flag opera://flags/#suggestion-scoring-improved (see https://forums.opera.com/post/204133), that can cause issues with start page items (which are bookmarks) appearing first/high in suggestions that can cause the wrong URL to load. I forget if it grabs anything from regular bookmarks or not, but you can disable the flag to see if it helps.

                            However, if you've been having the problem for a long time, that flag won't be the cause as it's new.

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                            • fiambredunicornio
                              fiambredunicornio @burnout426 last edited by

                              @burnout426 That worked for me! thank you. It also solved the random icons problem

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                              • bodenunits
                                bodenunits @burnout426 last edited by

                                @burnout426 Helped me, too. Thanks man! I was getting really annoyed at that "feature" because I would usually just type the first couple of letters of a website and it would complete it to the base website (e.g. google.com with only typing "goo"). But it would complete it to some specific site on google, like google.com/some_specific_site_12345 and even if i removed all that in the address bar (so that shows google.com) it would still open the specific website because it was the first suggestion. Really annoying. But disabling that "improved" suggestion scoring solved it for me. Thank you burnout for investing your time to help us normal people!

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                                • A Former User
                                  A Former User last edited by

                                  Let me just say that Opera suddenly started to shove Speed Dial bookmarks into search which didn't happen before. And it is just annoying just because of that fact and also because the way it is implemented. Please let us turn this off.

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                                  • burnout426
                                    burnout426 Volunteer @Guest last edited by

                                    @no9or9 https://forums.opera.com/post/207076

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                                    • robor10t
                                      robor10t @burnout426 last edited by robor10t

                                      @burnout426
                                      I disabled that flag and it made no difference whatsoever (tried restarting Opera, and even rebooting my laptop). Opera still starts pulling up my bookmarks as the first suggestions when I start to type anything in the address bar.

                                      Again, as an example - if I start to type the word "sound" in the address bar the first couple of things that pop up as suggestions are some Soundgarden guitar tabs that I have bookmarked. Why is it pulling up bookmarks as suggestions at all? Who would even want that as a function? If I've bookmarked something then I already know how to get to that page quickly. That's kind of the point of bookmarking something...

                                      It also still tries to pull up bookmarks that I've deleted as an experiment. Where is it even still pulling that from?? I've tried searching my browser history for the bookmarked page I deleted and it's not in the history, nor is it in the bookmarks (because I deleted it!). So how is it still being brought up as a suggestion? Is anything ever truly deleted from Opera search/bookmark history?

                                      Just such a pain in the ass.

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                                      • burnout426
                                        burnout426 Volunteer @robor10t last edited by

                                        @robor10t said in Why have my bookmarks started appearing as suggestions in the Google search bar auto complete?:

                                        I disabled that flag and it made no difference whatsoever

                                        Yeah, I think it's only supposed to control suggestions from Speed Dials on the start page and not all bookmarks. If so, then it wouldn't help in your case.

                                        Why is it pulling up bookmarks as suggestions at all?

                                        Opera does indeed do that. There's no configuration for it either. Chrome does it too. However, Opera does it differently. It puts the bookmark suggestions above some/all the autocomplete suggestions instead of below them.

                                        So, you're probably just experiencing Opera's behavior.

                                        It also still tries to pull up bookmarks that I've deleted as an experiment. Where is it even still pulling that from??

                                        When you delete a bookmark, it just moves it to the bookmark trash. It's not actually gone. I would assume Opera would omit trash bookmarks for suggestions, but just in case it doesn't, goto opera://bookmarks and empty the bookmark trash. There are also 3 history files in the profile folder (path as seen at the URLopera://about) that you could delete while Opera is closed to wipe out all your history just in case something is stuck in the files.

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                                        • MAN-ticore
                                          MAN-ticore @burnout426 last edited by

                                          @burnout426 Registered just to say thank you, man! You are a real saviour here, that stupid fiture was bugging me for couple of weeks now.

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                                          • Tiemen
                                            Tiemen last edited by

                                            This "improved-suggestion-scoring" has got to be the most annoying "feature" as of yet. I don't want to go to any of my saved bookmarks this way. They would probably have been in my often visited websites anyway if I would!

                                            It's just highly annoying that I could not just go to youtube using "you" or instagram using "inst" just because one of my bookmarks included "How to install your own ...."

                                            Please, please, do not enable this by default.

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