Can you disable keyword search engine?

[hion]

hion last edited by

Is there a way to disable keyword search engine? Like when you type
"y" <some word> into the url, it searches <some word> in yahoo.

Like this setting:

Im personally not a huge fan of this shortcut/keyword, and I've never used it. If anything its more annoying then it is helpful, because sometimes I do search one letter things and space with another word it uses the search engine keyword.

[sgunhouse]

sgunhouse Moderator Volunteer last edited by

If you want to search for "y something" you just have to prefix it with your desired search engine, for example "b y something". But no, you can't modify the built-in search engines at all.

[hion]

hion @sgunhouse last edited by

@sgunhouse Oh I see.

However, I run into another problem. Which I assumed comes from the keyword built-in search engines, but im not entirely sure because it never happened before so it may just be something unrelated.

Sometimes I like to type one letter and click enter in the url, which it normally will autofill a common site I visist like "youtube". However, recently I get this:

Not entirely sure why this happens, and I just assumed it was from the "y" keyword for yahoo search engine. Its not like that url is even in my history and I can't remove it from my search, so I assumed it was the "y" keyword.

[burnout426]

burnout426 Volunteer @hion last edited by

@hion Not sure if it'll help in this situation, but goto the URL opera://flags/#suggestion-scoring-improved, disable the flag, restart Opera and try again. You may have clear your history after that too, but not sure.

[hion]

hion @burnout426 last edited by

@burnout426 Just tested, doesn't seem to work. Thanks tho

[leocg]

leocg Moderator Volunteer @hion last edited by

@hion There are other sites starting with Y that you visit often?

[hion]

hion @leocg last edited by

@leocg No not really. However, oddly enough, after updating Opera from Settings > Upate & Recovery then relaunching Opera. It manage to fix the issue, and I don't seem to get that weird autofill anymore.