12.15 forces Google as search engine
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Deleted User last edited by
Sorry for my interruption. Instead of answering a moderator linked my thread over here and closed it. :down: And I confess to be to annoyed by this Opera-problem to read so much postings in foreign language. So please allow me this question:
Are there already any solutions or at least workarounds?
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frenzie last edited by
Originally posted by a-zeller:
Are there already any solutions or at least workarounds?
Reverting to 12.14 as mentioned in the OP.
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raindog68 last edited by
Good to see this is a known problem. I already reinstalled opera for this issue but will go back to a previous version now. I find it bloody annoying to have Google as default. (preferring Startpage as my default)
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Deleted User last edited by
I have upgraded from Opera 12.14 to the 12.15, but it doesn't seem to have this issue for me.
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lukaszpp last edited by
Going back to 12.14 here also. This is sick. If there will be no workaround Im going to firefox.
By the way. There is an addon:https://addons.opera.com/pl/extensions/details/searchbox-toolbar-for-opera/?display=en
which could possibly get rid of the problem, but:1. It is discontinued
2. Somebody would have to write adding new search engine
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frenzie last edited by
Originally posted by lukaszpp:
If there will be no workaround Im going to firefox.
Try search keywords. It's more efficient regardless.
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schnellinger last edited by
Originally posted by Luxor:
Originally posted by rafaelluik:
I did it first! 383945 < 384117 < 384235. I'm winning!
Let's see if someone beats me. hahaThere is no point doing that, one bug report is enough. Duplicates just waste the developers time.
Hey, if the developers won't waist time, they just should go OPEN bugtracker, like real software does. All Opera to blame.
That nobody knows which bugreport is filled and which not wastes also time for user who report bugs.
Many of us preach since years that the bugreport system is broken by design.
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linuxmint7 last edited by
Originally posted by Schnellinger:
Hey, if the developers won't waist time, they just should go OPEN bugtracker, like real software does. All Opera to blame.
That nobody knows which bugreport is filled and which not wastes also time for user who report bugs.
Many of us preach since years that the bugreport system is broken by design.
YMMVThat has nothing to do with a single user reporting the same bug multiple times. Which does waste their own time, causes confusion, and also wastes developers time checking every bug number against every bug reported, just to find out that were all the same damn bug. See the problem ?.
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sipertruk last edited by
If you too are addicted to opera and search engines you can do something like this example for windows, for other os find the "hosts" file there "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hosts_(file)".
Put that at the end of "C:\Windows\System32\drivers\etc\hosts" :xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx google.comReplace "xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx" by an ip address to your favorite engine, if you don't know how to find and ip address from a server name you can use that online tool : http://www.webdnstools.com/dnstools/dns-lookup first tool on the left "Look up DNS Entries".
You could also replace "google.com" by anything else that can be put as default like bing or ixquick.
And put "google.com" or whatever you used as the server name in the url of the default search engine in your opera's settings. -
Deleted User last edited by
Originally posted by sipertruk:
xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx google.comReplace "xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx" by an ip address to your favorite engine
:doh:
1. That would break a large number of Google services, including those on non-Google sites that don't require a Google account (e.g. Recaptcha).
2. It would be nonsensical anyway. Search query formats differ between engines. StartPage and Ixquick don't even use GET (like Google); they use POST.
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frenzie last edited by
Originally posted by Gingerbread-Man:
StartPage and Ixquick don't even use GET (like Google); they use POST.
Besides the point, but you can search Ixquick with GET. https://ixquick.com/do/search?query=test (of course that is still incompatible with Google's https://google.com?q=test)
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sipertruk last edited by
Originally posted by Gingerbread-Man:
Originally posted by sipertruk:
xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx google.comReplace "xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx" by an ip address to your favorite engine
:doh:
1. That would break a large number of Google services, including those on non-Google sites that don't require a Google account (e.g. Recaptcha).
2. It would be nonsensical anyway. Search query formats differ between engines. StartPage and Ixquick don't even use GET (like Google); they use POST.
You failed to understand the post.
I didn't say to use google.com in hosts at all cost.
I didn't say to use the whole query from one server with another, just to replace the server name.
Did you even read it beside what you quote ?
The only nonsense is brought by the bug which allow only a few server names and forbid all others for the default engine. -
Deleted User last edited by
Got the same problem as you guys.
I have my own google search engine entry with my settings shortcut g, when i try to use startpage as default engine, on the next start of Opera appears a new entry wich is now default, named google with shortcut g and it sets my google entry to shortcut o. That is just weired. -
Osko last edited by
I've found another temporary solution. Go to Menu->Appearance in the "Buttons" tab choose "Search" category, drag and drop "Startpage Search Engine" field on the Address Bar next to the address field. Now you have a startpage search field that won't be overwritten next time you start opera. It's not like searching directly in the address field, but it's something.
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Deleted User last edited by
Originally posted by Osko:
I've found another temporary solution. Go to Menu->Appearance in the "Buttons" tab choose "Search" category, drag and drop "Startpage Search Engine" field on the Address Bar next to the address field. Now you have a startpage search field that won't be overwritten next time you start opera. It's not like searching directly in the address field, but it's something.
I don't know if I understood your way correctly but isn't it much easier to define a key for the startpage-search, i.g. "s"? Following this you type in the adressbar "s words to look up" to search with startpage "words to look up". That's the way I search in wikipedia, imdb or amazon directly form the adress bar since years.
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Deleted User last edited by
Originally posted by sipertruk:
I didn't say to use the whole query from one server with another, just to replace the server name.
Do you even understand how the HOSTS file works? You don't get to pick and choose when the IP address you specified is used for the server in question; it's always used.
When you type in bad advice into the address bar and press Enter, Opera submits a search query to Google that looks like this:
http://www.google.com/search?q=bad+advice&sourceid=opera&ie=utf-8&oe=utf-8&channel=suggestIf you mess around with the HOSTS file as you described, that would be the same as submitting the above query to StartPage:
http://www.startpage.com/search?q=bad+advice&sourceid=opera&ie=utf-8&oe=utf-8&channel=suggestThat's a query that StartPage doesn't understand; it will simply return you to the homepage at https://startpage.com instead of providing any search results.
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sipertruk last edited by
Originally posted by Gingerbread-Man:
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http://[PUT THE SERVER NAME YOU PUT IN HOSTS THERE, WHATEVER IT IS I DONT CARE]/do/search?cmd=process_search&language=english&enginecount=1&cat=web&query=%s -
haythamfathey2 last edited by
I have this problem too on Archlinux on a custom search engine "Startpage Web Recherche".
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