I'm missing the "Create search engine" entry
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Meara93 last edited by
@Olifant said in I'm missing the "Create search engine" entry:
In Opera One and Opera Developer is the right click entry on a search field "Create search engine" gone.
It is still present in Opera GX and Opera Air.If you need it back, try Opera GX or Air. Otherwise, use Settings to manually add a search engine. Hope this helps!
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burnout426 Volunteer last edited by
@andrew84 The whole autodetect + activate thing just comes from Chromium that Opera turned on. Opera's context menu search engine enumeration just isn't set up to skip inactive engines yet. I consider that a bug.
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andrew84 last edited by
@burnout426 said in I'm missing the "Create search engine" entry:
thing just comes from Chromium that Opera turned on
So it's pointless to request from Opera team restoring or fixing the habitual way of creating engines ?
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burnout426 Volunteer last edited by
@andrew84 I don't know if it's pointless. I want the feature back too though for what it's worth.
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burnout426 Volunteer last edited by
@burnout426 said in I'm missing the "Create search engine" entry:
pera's context menu search engine enumeration just isn't set up to skip inactive engines yet. I consider that a bug.
RNA-3999 for that.
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burnout426 Volunteer last edited by
@rif said in I'm missing the "Create search engine" entry:
My most used search has always been on maps.google.com. After reading your post and the description of how it works now I was surprised that a search wasn't created.
Probably something that maps.google.com needs to fix to get the autodetect part to work.
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ss9227 last edited by@burnout426 said in I'm missing the "Create search engine" entry:
Opera's context menu search engine enumeration just isn't set up to skip inactive engines yet. I consider that a bug.
I agree – it makes absolutely no sense for deactivated search engines to appear in the drop-down menu. It just ends up looking a mess after a while.
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ErikRogers last edited by
@Olifant said in I'm missing the "Create search engine" entry:
In Opera One and Opera Developer is the right click entry on a site search field "Create search engine" gone.
It is still present in Opera GX and Opera Air.I ran into the same confusion after updating Opera. At first I thought the feature had been removed completely, but it turns out it depends on how the website's search box is implemented. Being able to add a search engine manually through the settings is helpful, but I still think bringing back the "Create Search Engine" option consistently would make the feature much easier to discover and use, especially for people who frequently add custom searches.
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andrew84 last edited by andrew84
@ErikRogers As was said this is some chromium change.
Now search engines are added automatically while you browse sites with search fields that meets the conditions to be added automatically.
So the inactive search engines list will be growing and growing.
Manual adding in Settings is also still working.But like I mentioned in the blog I tried installing Vivaldi (150 chromium) and there are no changes. Still the 'create search engine' option exists in context menu and no automated engines adding.
So the conclusion is simple. It's possible to restore the previous behaviour currently. Not clear if temporarly due to chrome limitiations or opera team's wish. At least there wasn't any feedback regarding the recent dumb change.
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andrew84 last edited by
I can also add that even after deleting some inactive engine it will be aded again after visting corresponding sites.
Also, there's two sections for the same thing actually.
'Inactive shortcuts' and 'Additional inactive sites'.Instead of allowing sorting the engines at least (if deleting the default engines is restricted), they just cut functional and implement the feature's absurd working algoritms.
