Allow disabling of default search engine hotkeys
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Dellengietf2 last edited bySucks that this hasn't been solved yet but a potential temporary fix is if you're going to search something with 1 letter at the start, put "g" and a space before it, because that's the shortcut for the google search engine.
For example if you wanted to search "d pad" type "g d pad" and it will search the google for "d pad". Its still annoying though. -
Berk404 last edited by leocg
Okay, this has been legitimately annoying me for a while, and I'm even considering switching because of how often this happens and because it cannot be disabled. Today's problem: I searched for "z index" in the address bar, and it redirected me to Amazon, searching for "index" on it, despite having Google as my default search engine for a reason. If I wanted to search something on Amazon, I'd do it on their website... If I set my default search engine to Google, it's for a reason. How come they didn't add an option to disable this? I literally had to create an account here just to complain about this. One of the Moderators above said "There's nothing to fix". I disagree; this is something that needs to be addressed. It's not a bug, but not everything that needs fixing is a bug.
I expected OperaGX to be reasonable, and when clicking the three dots, a "disable shortcut" option would appear. But guess what? That doesn't happen. The only option that appears is "set as default"...
I don't want to add a "g" in front of everything I search, I don't want to surround everything I search in quotes; I simply want to be able to search for "z index" in my browser without getting redirected to Amazon...
This has to be fixed. Users have been complaining about this for a while, and no one is doing anything. Moderators are defending bad UI design using the logic of "it's not a bug, it's a feature". You can keep your Moderator rank without needing to support every bad UI choice made.
This post has 9.1k views, most of them is people facing the same issue but not being able to answer this post because they didn't want to create an account to reply or support this post.
How come this has been a problem since 2021?...Let us disable search engine shortcuts, just as you do with normal shortcuts, we are not asking for much.
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FrogScientist last edited by
@berk404 Oh my god, I came to this forum because of your exact same situation. I was searching up z-scores and it automatically redirected me to Amazon. Thought it might have been something with the settings, but my rabbit hole digging led me to this discussion. The ridiculousness of this situation is a sentiment I feel everyone has, and I hope that they allow the disabling of the shortcut soon.
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MaggyMage last edited by
An extremely easy fix for this would be if they were to just actually make the feature of only having it happen on tab work. They have a setting for keyboard shortcut that can be set to either "Space or Tab" or to "Tab". If you could change that, and it would then only do this behavior when pressing tab, it wouldn't be that big a problem, but for me, despite having changed the setting to "Tab" instead of the default "Space and Tab" it still triggers when pressing space.
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Hawkk97 last edited by
Same for me. I'm just commenting so this keeps getting bumbed up and maybe be fixed sooner!
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Natcuber last edited by
I also just tried to search D major key signature on Opera and... This is terrible.
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Bonotix last edited by
It still hasn´t been changed, i´m going mad. Every time i type g protein it always deletes the g it is so useless function, if you can´t change it or turn it off.
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GerritDamen last edited by
Well, I've created an account just to let you know: noone ever used that stupid feature and today noone even knows that yahoo was a search engine back in the day.
So please, give users an option to disable this completely unnecessary feature that just leads to frustration because search prompts are misinterpreted. I'm just here because i tried to Google the computergame Z from 1996 and it drove me mad.
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mariogalan last edited by
I have a different problem but the solution would be the same: I search a lot in Youtube and of course I would like to have the ability to do it by just typing 'y' in front of my search. This is a great feature. Or it would be if it weren't for the fact that Yahoo! reserved that key for their search engine -which I think is used less often by Youtube btw. Please let us disactivate that feature!!!!!!
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leocg Moderator Volunteer last edited by leocg
@mariogalan I don't think that it would help with your problem.
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burnout426 Volunteer last edited by
What I like to do is goto https://www.youtube.com/, right-click in the search field, choose "Create search engine", set the keyword to
ytand choose "create".Then, I just type
yt metallicaand press enter for example when I want to search Youtube. Some users like to make the keywordyoutube.comso that they can typeyoutube.com metallicaand press enter, which is similar to how Chrome does automatic search engines. -
Nakina last edited by Nakina@burnout426 This wouldn't solve the issue as the moment they type the "y" in "yt" it would move to the yahoo search and then type a "t" afterwards. This is the issue with how things work currently and is why I opened this thread so long ago and have since moved away from this browser.Edit- In hindsight I just remembered the problem only triggers after you put in a space from the shortcut letters. So this would probably work for their issue, my bad.
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mariogalan last edited by
@leocg It would help because I would disable Yahoo and put a custom (Youtube) using 'y'. However @burnout426 gave a workaround, instead of using my desired 'y', I can instead use 'yt', thank you!
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jaynensei last edited by
This must be one of the most frustrating things in Opera GX.
With all the "freedom" and "customization" ads that Opera Marketing Team provides us - telling us how versatile and customizable this browser attempts to be - it is unbelievable that something as simple as disabling/changing the Search engines keyboard shortcuts is not available to us.
It has been over 3+ years Opera. Please, allow us to truly customize this option out of existence.
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DrinkableMizu last edited by
Just here to bump this and say that I just discovered this feature by accident searching for a Spanish song by typing "y me voy" (without quotes) so it searched "me voy" in yahoo instead of google, problem is, I usually go to youtube writing "y" and then pressing enter, now youtube is the second option and can't delete "y/" from suggestions, for a single feature that didn't know that existed for years, that'll ruin my experience for the rest of my time using this browser.
So please, allow users to both customize and disable the feature, as it is not a bad thing itself, what is the problem is that you can't either customize it or disable it, and it IS a problem, if it's not clear with this amount of people randomly discovering this and being a problem for them. -
burnout426 Volunteer last edited by burnout426
@DrinkableMizu The only way in Opera to delete that
y/entry once it's there is to delete "Browsing History" for all time at the URLopera://settings/clearBrowserData. Removing all search.yahoo.com entries at the URLopera://historyis not enough. That's becausehttp://y/gets entered into the History file andopera://historydoesn't show that entry so you can delete it. Outside of Opera, you could delete the History file or remove that entry with SQLiteStudio.To search Goolge for
y me voy, you have to remember to typeg y me voyinstead. -
burnout426 Volunteer last edited by
@burnout426 I filed DNA-119444 about those funky y/ entries with details on how to trigger them and why it happens etc. No guarantees, but maybe the issue will get looked at.
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DrinkableMizu last edited by
@burnout426 deleting he browsing history data fixed the "y/" problem, thanks.
Though my point about allowing to customize and disable this feature still stands obviously. -
burnout426 Volunteer last edited by
@burnout426 said in Allow disabling of default search engine hotkeys:
filed DNA-119444 about those funky y/ entries
Although not in the changelog, the bug seems fixed in the latest Opera Developer build so far.
