How to change default search engine to DuckDuckGo on Opera Android
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Deleted User last edited by
You can add DuckDuckGo SaaS search engine, you just have to hold on search field.
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2anyone last edited by
You can add DuckDuckGo SaaS search engine, you just have to hold on search field.
any possible to use it as default search engine?
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A Former User last edited by
any possible to use it as default search engine?
Nope, afaik you can only use one of the pre-defined search engines as default one.
any reason [other than money] why we can't change it?
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twozero3 last edited by
The inability to define your own default search engine has been around for years with Opera Mobile/Mini despite constant requests over the years for the user to do so. I doubt it will ever change. I too suspect the only reason the default search engine is fixed is due to search referral income it generates for Opera. It wouldn't be so bad for me if I could just change google.com to google.co.uk for more relevant search results, but no.
I just save google.co.uk as speed dial and skip the default search engine capability, I find it simpler than messing about selecting and changing the search engines over within Opera.
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A Former User last edited by
any reason [other than money] why we can't change it?
Security. This prevent malwares from hijacking your serach engines.
Which is:
- Practically inexistent in Android and the malware would require root access.
- Inexistent in other platforms, yet we can't change default search engine in any mobile device since forever.
- Possible to develop a way to allow search engine choice and keep the security, but Opera didn't do it until now by choice.
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Deleted User last edited by
In short: you can't stop Google tracker just like that, Fennec works in the same way in favor of Amazon. For the record at first startup the app may stall a bit because Google location is in conflict with Appboy similar request.
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infamous11 last edited by
someone help me here.. I use Opera Mini 14.0.something and I had the 4 default search engines.. Few days back my 4th search engine (dictionary. com) changed automatically to duckduckgo.com.. I didn't update or allow any permission.. I don't know how and I want to change it back.. In some previous version of operamini, I'm sure I had changed a search engine by manually changing the address of the IMDB search engine and it worked.. I can't find that setting anymore.. pls help I desperately want dictionary.com back
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