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    • philipat88
      philipat88 last edited by

      Already done that (Prediction service) and I still get the popup making a search in the Address bar suggesting sites from search history. I unchecked also the "Enable the search popup when selecting text" box because that was suggested in a different post in this same forum. Any other ideas? As I said, the popup is not suggesting searches as such but simply displaying previous searches from history when the same letter of the new entry. So, if I delete all history, all I get is an empty popup box, which is still annoying.

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      • leocg
        leocg Moderator Volunteer last edited by

        Already done that (Prediction service) and I still get the popup making a search in the Address bar suggesting sites from search history

        Ah, you want to disable history suggestions and not search suggestions.

        Well, I guess it's not possible to disable suggestions from history and bookmarks.

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        • philipat88
          philipat88 last edited by

          Thanks for the help. That is disappointing though because it CAN be done in both Firefox AND Chrome. The issue being I don't necessarily want other who have access to some of my network machines having access to my search History. I guess the only solution is to keep closing Opera (set to delete history on shutdown) or deleting history and put up with an empty popup box.

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          • philipat88
            philipat88 last edited by

            @sdobrov

            I think this answers your question also?

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            • leocg
              leocg Moderator Volunteer last edited by

              The issue being I don't necessarily want other who have access to some of my network machines having access to my search History

              To see the your history in Opera someone would need to be able to use the same Opera as you. It means that the person would need to gain access to your OS account.

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              • philipat88
                philipat88 last edited by

                Yes, it is necessary for some people to use the machine in my Office (this one) sometimes for reasons of practicality. But thanks again for the info, I will be sure only to use Opera on my own personal machine that only I have access to and Firefox/Chrome on machines where access by others is required.

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                • leocg
                  leocg Moderator Volunteer last edited by

                  Yes, it is necessary for some people to use the machine in my Office (this one) sometimes for reasons of practicality.

                  You should be able to create a different user so people can use your computer without messing up with your data.

                  I will be sure only to use Opera on my own personal machine that only I have access to and Firefox/Chrome on machines where access by others is required.

                  Just remember that if someone has direct access to your computer, s/he can just get any info directly from the files.

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                  • philipat88
                    philipat88 last edited by

                    No files on that machine, of course, it's just a "bridge". The fact is, this is a weakness of Opera which Firefox and Chrome recognised and fixed. Thanks again for your help. Over and out....

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                    • javilg
                      javilg last edited by

                      Hello

                      I guess my issue is the same as the other people's. I, of course, have disabled search suggestions, but I still get the annoying search history. It's not that I have to share the computer, but that whenever I want to try (for instance) a new search changing some keywords, the bar autocompletes the previous search just because the first one or two letters are the same... it's, as I said, very annoying and it seems impossible to disable. Maybe I'm missing something, but I have tried everything in the settings.

                      It may seem it's not that important, but it is for me, because I'm continually searching and trying to refine the results changing keywords.

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                      • leocg
                        leocg Moderator Volunteer last edited by

                        I, of course, have disabled search suggestions, but I still get the annoying search history.

                        You can't disable history suggestions.

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                        • zalex108
                          zalex108 last edited by

                          @Philipat88

                          You can delete Opera icons from Desktop and Start and use a Shortcut inside another folder (just known by you) or use a Launcher...

                          You can create another Shortcut + profile for those Guests too.

                          @Javilg

                          Depending on what are your needs, creating another profile to make the searches an then clean full browsing data each time maybe might help.


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