Bookmarks suggestions when typing in address bar
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Tiemen last edited by
Perhaps as the second or third suggestion including bookmarks would be fine. That would make like a "nice to have" addition to search through. Over the years you can accumulate quite a lot of bookmarks you forgot about which may actually be helpful in what you're searching for. But they should never interfere with my default browsing behavior like this.
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robor10t last edited by robor10t
@burnout426 I appreciate the reply, so thank you first of all.
That being said, nothing you've said has made a difference to my experience. Opera definitely did not start pulling up my bookmarks as search suggestions before I posted in this forum. It happened one day without there being any update that I was notified of (when I turned my laptop on today and opened Opera it notified me of an update that has just been installed and outlined the updated features, so I'm assuming when an update is released a user is notified in some way).
I have no idea why anyone would think adding bookmarks into search suggestions would be a good idea. When a user has bookmarked a page, they already know how to quickly access that page - that's the sole purpose of bookmarks! Adding them to search suggestions (as the first suggestions, especially!) is putting a hat on a hat. It's useless and irritating. There should definitely be a configuration for it. It clutters up almost every search I do as I have a lot of bookmarks, so I can't type anything in the search without pulling up multiple bookmarks before anything else.
I'd already tried emptying the trash from the bookmarks and the deleted bookmark still gets pulled up in suggestions. At this point I think I might have to reinstall Opera to try and get rid of that as I don't know where the errant file is it's pulling the info from and I haven't got the patience to search for it any more than I already have.
Overall, this is a hugely frustrating, disappointing experience as this feature has been forced on me with no option to turn it off. Thanks a lot, Opera.
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robor10t last edited by robor10t
@Tiemen Thanks, but that doesn't work for me for whatever reason. I'd turned that off before (as @burnout246 had previously suggested it) and it didn't do anything. Tried again now, still nothing.
I did just discover that it had been reset to "default" from "disabled" after last night/yesterday's update though. So if anyone has previously disabled it, it's worth knowing that any update will just turn it back on. That's another feature that's very unwelcome. I don't want any of my personal settings reset to default after an update. I can't think of any other app/program that does that. Maybe I'll bookmark that page, titled "annoying" so I can search for the page to check quicker! LOL
The bookmarks in the search may be useful for some people, but I have a lot of bookmarks (hence why this is so frustrating!) and I know where they are because I took 10 seconds to give them a name when I bookmarked them. All I have to do is sort my bookmarks alphabetically and it's very easy to find anything.
But now, for example, if I type in the word "sound" I get 5 bookmarks pulled up first. This is a feature that should be configurable, not just "tough, this is what happens".
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artest956 last edited by
This still hasnt been fixed!??
every time I type something it suggest all of my favorites .... Why?? i was able to use that link that you suggested burn however it only helped from auto filling in the search bar. -
leocg Moderator Volunteer last edited by
@artest956 When you type on address bar, you may get suggestions from your history and bookmarks. It's by design as far as I know.
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robor10t last edited by
@artest956 It still hasn't been fixed for me either. None of the suggestions on this page did anything and every time I type anything into the address bar, the first thing that comes up are suggestions from my bookmarks.
I don't want this to happen, but I don't have a choice. This definitely wasn't happening before my original post about it (for me at least), so this had to have been included in an update. I'd been using Opera for roughly a year before this started to happen, and as soon as it did it was immediately obvious (so there's no chance it happened previously and I didn't notice!) -
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sea0nf1re last edited by
In the search bar, whenever i search for something, the first suggestions are always based on my bookmarks. This is unbelievably annoying, and i really do not need that, since bookmarks are precisely made to save urls that you might need later, so why would I need them recommended to me? My question is, is there any way to disable opera recommending bookmarks? If it is possible, i would like the option completely disabled. Also, from what I've gathered, there was a solution that said I should go to opera://flags/#suggestion-scoring-improved and disable the option, however i cannot seem to find said flag.
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leocg Moderator Volunteer last edited by
@sea0nf1re As far as I know, it's not possible to disable suggestions from bookmarks.
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robor10t last edited by leocg
@leonhardttobias Agreed. I think it says it all that there was no solution or mention of it being looked at, no further responses, then in the thread there's an almost comical "about a year later" when andufo commented today. Clearly this will not be resolved.
When I tried looking into this elsewhere on the web last year I read several things regarding privacy issues with Opera so I'm glad I switched. I'd forgotten how annoying having your bookmarks getting pulled up as suggestions was! Firefox works fine for me and I imported my bookmarks there with no issue.
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Mostacho last edited by
God, this has been an issus since 2019.
Please fix this.
https://forums.opera.com/topic/36653/why-have-my-bookmarks-started-appearing-as-suggestions-in-the-google-search-bar-auto-complete/28 -
