Changing search engine

osxking

osxking

I'm currently using GX LVL7 Core:130.0.5847.89 (the last full release) and I just found out I cannot change default search engines to the ones I prefer.
There must be a flag or a setting I'm not aware of.
Help me find it, please

burnout426

burnout426 Volunteer

No flag or anything. Opera purposely only allows the search engines Opera comes with to be set as the default search engine for the address field. What search engines Opera comes with depends on the locale.

Also, for the search field on the start page (as opposed to searching in the address field), the search engine used for that field is not configurable. It's purposely stuck at a certain one that depends on what locale you're using.

osxking

osxking @burnout426

@burnout426 so is it possible to change the locale for the purpose of changing SEs?
I mean I'm using a non-opera VPN atm and it ain't changing a thing here

leocg

leocg Moderator Volunteer @osxking

@osxking Changing the locale will get you the start page search engine for that locale and the pre-defined list of search engines for that locale.

I guess that, except for some specific locales, the list shouldn't change that much.

burnout426

burnout426 Volunteer @osxking

@osxking Yes. For example, if you goto the URL opera://about, take not of the "profile" path, close Opera and edit the "Local State" one level up from the profile folder, you can change the country and country_from_server values to the country code of your liking. For example, if you set them to RU, Yandex will be available as a default search engine. If you set them to CN, Baidu will be available as a default search engine.

You can open the "default_partner_content.json" file in the latest version folder in the Opera GX install folder (install path shown at the URL opera://about) to see what each country code provides. As you'll see, most of them are the same as already said, so it's not going to help much.