Allow disabling of default search engine hotkeys

[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.