[Request]Allow to remove unwanted search engines from Opera

[A Former User]

A Former User 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.

[A Former User]

A Former User @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.

[A Former User]

A Former User 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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[A Former User]

A Former User 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.