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    • sgunhouse
      sgunhouse Moderator Volunteer last edited by

      Neither Leo nor I have any direct input to the developers - this is a volunteer-moderated forum. While the developers do read the forums, there is no guarantee they will see any specific post or even thread. So, don't take your frustrations out on Leo.

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      • A Former User
        A Former User last edited by A Former User

        oh well... I was planning to switch to firefox anyway after the Chinese consortium acquisition.

        Still I'm doubtful on using anything right now, it seems that all browsers require extensions to make extra search engines work(maybe not Edge, not sure).

        Starting to feel like a browser scrambler+self setup VPN makes more sense these days.

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        • jojo0587
          jojo0587 @Guest last edited by

          @ma77hiaz said in Set self added Search Engines as Default:

          Give the user the ability to click "Make Default" on self added search engines.**

          Only one word: YES.

          My proposals for changes in Opera (Google Document).
          - There are not enough signs to put all the links here.

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          • A Former User
            A Former User @jojo0587 last edited by

            @jojo0587 said in Set self added Search Engines as Default:

            @ma77hiaz said in Set self added Search Engines as Default:

            Give the user the ability to click "Make Default" on self added search engines.**

            Only one word: YES.

            +1

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            • arkus1995
              arkus1995 last edited by

              I support the idea.

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              • A Former User
                A Former User last edited by

                For privacy reasons I want to make "startpage.com" my primary search engine (which uses google.com, but anonymize the search requests)

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                • victorgamerlol
                  victorgamerlol last edited by

                  There is an alternative but it's a bit annoying. Do you know the keyword for every search engine? Type it at the beginning of every one of your searches (after typing the keyword press space) and done!. PS: I am using Ecosia too because of the Amazon Rainforest Fire.

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                  • larrylangdon
                    larrylangdon last edited by

                    I agree - we need to be able to set Ecosia.org as default search engine, otherwise we'll use another browser! Gotta plant trees when I search!

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                    • lugoaxul
                      lugoaxul last edited by

                      Yep. I was wondering why opera won't let me add a default custom search engine. Now I know. Vey lame, tbh.

                      Now, as a workaround, add a keyword to the search engine and just start with it before writing in the address bar. Works almost as the real thing!

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                      • palx
                        palx last edited by

                        If not all of the above, at least give as the option to rearrange the "other search engines" in the order we want them and have that same order show on the context menu.

                        I like to have mine in a particular order and every time I add a new one, I have to delete all the others and start rearranging them from the start, in order for them to show how I want them in the context menu.

                        The other problem is, in the setting's menu it rearranges the added ones but alphabetical order and in the context menu, it shows them in the order you added them. So this is disorientating. It should be in the order you've decided for them to show both settings menu and context menu.

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                        • home-world
                          home-world @Guest last edited by

                          Opera already allows adding of search engines

                          opera://settings/searchEngines

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                          then set as default

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                          • andrew84
                            andrew84 @home-world last edited by

                            @home-world First try yourself to add custom search engine and make it default,

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                            • larrylangdon
                              larrylangdon @home-world last edited by leocg

                              @home-world You can add a search engine in the "other search engines" section, but, you cannot set the added search engine as default because when you click on the 3 vertical dots the only option is "remove" - there's no option to set the added search engine s default. That only works in the top section!!!!!

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