[Request]Allow to remove unwanted search engines from Opera

[wulfhartus]

wulfhartus last edited by leocg

Hi,
I"m very frustrated with the search engine choice we have in Opera. It's impossible to delete the default search engines like Yahoo, Amazon, etc. I don't want these in my browser, but I can't delete them.
To make things worse, there is a keyword to trigger these engines. If I begin my research with "z", it will redirect me to Amazon. That's very frustrating. Please allow us to configurate this, and to delete it.

What I am talking about : https://ibb.co/1qzV31D . I want to remove these engines (excepted google, duckduckgo).

[user2021-05-01-12345]

user2021-05-01-12345 last edited by

Yes, it's very important!

There are search engines forbidden by the law in my country, so it's very displeasant that I can't get rid of them.

[wulfhartus]

wulfhartus @user2021-05-01-12345 last edited by

@user2021-05-01-12345 From which country are you ?

[JavierVonArt]

JavierVonArt last edited by

Hi Opera , any updates on this request?
As the other users, I want to remove all search engines but Google, when will be able to do so?

[leocg]

leocg Moderator Volunteer @JavierVonArt last edited by

@javiervonart We don't even know if we will be able to do it.

[JavierVonArt]

JavierVonArt @leocg last edited by

@leocg Thanks for the answer.
Let's hope at least you let us define the keywords for our non preferred search engines.

[75338a]

75338a last edited by

Any updates on this? I'm looking for an extension to delete search engines or at least re-arrange the order of them since I REALLY don't need Yahoo/Bing and all the other crap on my right-click Search with list.

Thx. Stuff like this is why I'm considering other browsers.

[HobbitWanKenobi]

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[75338a]

75338a last edited by

The workaround appears to be to install an extension specifically for the search engine you're looking to use so that it'll appear on your right-click context menu. This will not let you delete search engines ofc.

E.g.: https://addons.opera.com/en-gb/extensions/details/search-in-youtube/

[joeykoen96]

joeykoen96 last edited by

please remove default search engines no one likes this

[LETUSDELETESEARCHENGINES]

LETUSDELETESEARCHENGINES last edited by

yea i just switched to firefox to fix this problem

[A Former User]

A Former User @LETUSDELETESEARCHENGINES last edited by

@letusdeletesearchengines can confirm, even after 1 year, this solution still works

[hektorsuhr]

hektorsuhr @leocg last edited by

@leocg if it's not possible you will probably lose me as a user. This is quite basic, I want Y to be mapped to youtube search but am not even able to change the keyword.

I understand you guys might have business agreements with Yahoo, but atleast let the user change the keyword being used.

That's just ridiculous, I am not going to use Yahoo as a search engine. Depending how annoying it is will determine if I stay with the browser or not.

[Amorrious]

Amorrious last edited by

Yep running into the same issue, tried to type d minor and it wont let me since its ducks engine keyword. This definitly needs to be fixed. I dont know how you can't change it so.

[sgunhouse]

sgunhouse Moderator Volunteer @Amorrious last edited by

@amorrious It would be advisable to put the term in quotes so that the search engine looks for the words together, and using quotes would prevent Opera from interpretting D as a search engine shortcut. The first part is just general advice - even from a search engine's home page I'd recommend it when searching for D Minor to reduce false positives.