After updating to Version 40.0.2308.62 (latest) i got this issue

[A Former User]

A Former User last edited by

Yes, I'm having the same exact issue after my browser updated to Opera 40! I'm used to regularily visiting same websites by typing their first letter in the address bar and pressing Enter. Now that Opera shows search engines first, for most websites (which just happen to start with b , d and g) I can no longer do that anymore.
Please tell me it can be disabled somewhere... I can't find it anywhere in settings, maybe I'm looking wrong.

[cowsrcoooll]

cowsrcoooll last edited by

i have opera on auto update... and i use opera daily buy yesterday i got a notification to restart opera to apply the update and then that started happening

[cowsrcoooll]

cowsrcoooll last edited by

are they planning on changing that? cuz if not then me and opera had a long nice run but it will be over

[leocg]

leocg Moderator Volunteer last edited by

are they planning on changing that?

I don't think so. No public comments on this at least.

[leocg]

leocg Moderator Volunteer last edited by

Please tell me it can be disabled somewhere... I can't find it anywhere in settings, maybe I'm looking wrong.

It seems to be something unrelated to this topic.

[cowsrcoooll]

cowsrcoooll last edited by

Please tell me it can be disabled somewhere... I can't find it anywhere in settings, maybe I'm looking wrong.

It seems to be something unrelated to this topic.

how is that not related to this topic? that's the whole point of this topic

[leocg]

leocg Moderator Volunteer last edited by

how is that not related to this topic? that's the whole point of this topic

This topic is about search engines keywords and not about search suggestions.

[leocg]

leocg Moderator Volunteer last edited by

OK, it seems that I misunderstood the problem here.

Well, if I just type y in the address bar, Opera autocompletes it with www.youtube.com.

And this has been the behaviour since quite a while.

[A Former User]

A Former User last edited by

Here's how it works like for me: https://gfycat.com/ScalyInfiniteIbis

[leocg]

leocg Moderator Volunteer last edited by

Here's how it works like for me: https://gfycat.com/ScalyInfiniteIbis

OK, I've re-checked here and indeed if you press a letter associated with a search engine the auto-complete will not do anything.

I don't know a way to change it and also don't know if it's a bug or something changed by design.

[A Former User]

A Former User last edited by

Oh, and search suggestions disappeared from the search bar (not the address bar!).
Well, long time since I tried Vivaldi, got to switch to it again I guess

[poehalcho]

poehalcho last edited by

This has to change. It's horrible. I've been enjoying opera, but this seemingly minor annoyance is pushing me very hard to move on to vivaldi. It's straight up hijacking my internet behaviour for the sake of a sponsor, I ain't havin' that.
I understand won't get patched immediately, but I really hope the team doesn't let this carry on longer than necessary.

Meanwhile, anyone got a solution available?

[lando242]

lando242 last edited by

There is a way to change the letter assignments but its a pain in the butt. Give this a shot:

1. Go to opera://about to learn your paths
2. Close the browser
3. Copy siteprefs.json from %installation-root%\profile to %installation-root%%opera-version%\resources
4. In %installation-root% remove default_partner_content.json then rename *siteprefs.json to default_partner_content.json and set read-only access on it
5. Remove default_partner_content.json from %installation-root%\profile

This will blow out all of the built-in search engines except Google, which is a hardcoded fallback. You can now use any of the previously used letters for custom search engines. You can't make any of them your default search engines, though.

[poehalcho]

poehalcho last edited by

Yes! works like a charm. Good thing it was such an easy fix.
Thanks.

[A Former User]

A Former User last edited by

There is a way to change the letter assignments but its a pain in the butt. Give this a shot:

1. Go to opera://about to learn your paths
2. Close the browser
3. Copy siteprefs.json from %installation-root%\profile to %installation-root%%opera-version%\resources
4. In %installation-root% remove default_partner_content.json then rename siteprefs.json* to **default_partner_content.json and set read-only access on it
5. Remove default_partner_content.json from %installation-root%\profile
   This will blow out all of the built-in search engines except Google, which is a hardcoded fallback. You can now use any of the previously used letters for custom search engines. You can't make any of them your default search engines, though.

Thank you but I'm unable to find the "profile" folder in my installation directory. There are only two folders with different Opera version, and also "Assets" and "old_status".

EDIT: Nvm, it wasn't in %installation-root%, it was in a profile path (for the first and last path in these instructions). Now it works, thank you! A lot of work to turn off such a silly feature

[poehalcho]

poehalcho last edited by

Crap. It worked like a charm...
After restarting my browser 2x it just comes back again. Even though stuff was set to read only

[A Former User]

A Former User last edited by

Crap. It worked like a charm...
After restarting my browser 2x it just comes back again. Even though stuff was set to read only

Oh, that's true. After a few reboots the workaround stopped working for me as well. Great...