Allow disabling of default search engine hotkeys

[GerritDamen]

GerritDamen last edited by

Well, I've created an account just to let you know: noone ever used that stupid feature and today noone even knows that yahoo was a search engine back in the day.

So please, give users an option to disable this completely unnecessary feature that just leads to frustration because search prompts are misinterpreted. I'm just here because i tried to Google the computergame Z from 1996 and it drove me mad.

[mariogalan]

mariogalan last edited by

I have a different problem but the solution would be the same: I search a lot in Youtube and of course I would like to have the ability to do it by just typing 'y' in front of my search. This is a great feature. Or it would be if it weren't for the fact that Yahoo! reserved that key for their search engine -which I think is used less often by Youtube btw. Please let us disactivate that feature!!!!!!

[leocg]

leocg Moderator Volunteer @mariogalan last edited by leocg

@mariogalan I don't think that it would help with your problem.

[burnout426]

burnout426 Volunteer last edited by

What I like to do is goto https://www.youtube.com/, right-click in the search field, choose "Create search engine", set the keyword to yt and choose "create".

Then, I just type yt metallica and press enter for example when I want to search Youtube. Some users like to make the keyword youtube.com so that they can type youtube.com metallica and press enter, which is similar to how Chrome does automatic search engines.

[Nakina]

Nakina @burnout426 last edited by Nakina

@burnout426 This wouldn't solve the issue as the moment they type the "y" in "yt" it would move to the yahoo search and then type a "t" afterwards. This is the issue with how things work currently and is why I opened this thread so long ago and have since moved away from this browser.

Edit- In hindsight I just remembered the problem only triggers after you put in a space from the shortcut letters. So this would probably work for their issue, my bad.

[mariogalan]

mariogalan @leocg last edited by

@leocg It would help because I would disable Yahoo and put a custom (Youtube) using 'y'. However @burnout426 gave a workaround, instead of using my desired 'y', I can instead use 'yt', thank you!

[leocg]

leocg Moderator Volunteer @mariogalan last edited by

@mariogalan Right, I guess I misunderstood the problem.

[jaynensei]

jaynensei last edited by

This must be one of the most frustrating things in Opera GX.

With all the "freedom" and "customization" ads that Opera Marketing Team provides us - telling us how versatile and customizable this browser attempts to be - it is unbelievable that something as simple as disabling/changing the Search engines keyboard shortcuts is not available to us.

It has been over 3+ years Opera. Please, allow us to truly customize this option out of existence.

[DrinkableMizu]

DrinkableMizu last edited by

Just here to bump this and say that I just discovered this feature by accident searching for a Spanish song by typing "y me voy" (without quotes) so it searched "me voy" in yahoo instead of google, problem is, I usually go to youtube writing "y" and then pressing enter, now youtube is the second option and can't delete "y/" from suggestions, for a single feature that didn't know that existed for years, that'll ruin my experience for the rest of my time using this browser.

So please, allow users to both customize and disable the feature, as it is not a bad thing itself, what is the problem is that you can't either customize it or disable it, and it IS a problem, if it's not clear with this amount of people randomly discovering this and being a problem for them.

[burnout426]

burnout426 Volunteer @DrinkableMizu last edited by burnout426

@DrinkableMizu The only way in Opera to delete that y/ entry once it's there is to delete "Browsing History" for all time at the URL opera://settings/clearBrowserData. Removing all search.yahoo.com entries at the URL opera://history is not enough. That's because http://y/ gets entered into the History file and opera://history doesn't show that entry so you can delete it. Outside of Opera, you could delete the History file or remove that entry with SQLiteStudio.

To search Goolge for y me voy, you have to remember to type g y me voy instead.

[burnout426]

burnout426 Volunteer @burnout426 last edited by

@burnout426 I filed DNA-119444 about those funky y/ entries with details on how to trigger them and why it happens etc. No guarantees, but maybe the issue will get looked at.

[DrinkableMizu]

DrinkableMizu @burnout426 last edited by

@burnout426 deleting he browsing history data fixed the "y/" problem, thanks.
Though my point about allowing to customize and disable this feature still stands obviously.

[burnout426]

burnout426 Volunteer @burnout426 last edited by

@burnout426 said in Allow disabling of default search engine hotkeys:

filed DNA-119444 about those funky y/ entries

Although not in the changelog, the bug seems fixed in the latest Opera Developer build so far.

[burnout426]

burnout426 Volunteer @burnout426 last edited by

@burnout426 said in Allow disabling of default search engine hotkeys:

I filed DNA-119444 about those funky y/ entries

Fixed in Opera Stable 114.0.5282.144 now too.

Opera will no longer create those funky entries. However, if they're already in there from a build with the bug, you'll probably have to wipe out your history to get rid of them.