[Solved]How to pin Not From Opera Add-On To address bar

[tigrisan]

tigrisan last edited by leocg

I have downloaded my go-to SearchBar from the Chrome Add-on Webstore as it is not available in the Opera Extensions. It downloaded perfectly and runs perfectly as long as I use the Fn-4 to show or hide it, but I want to pin the magnifying glass icon to the address bar rather than having to use the key combo. On every other browser, I can pin it to the address bar but on Opera, I think because it wasn't downloaded from the official extension repository, I can't do that. Does anyone know of a work around at all? I can't add it to the sidebar either unless I'm missing something there.

I'm on Windows 10, using the latest Opera version.

Thank you.

[leocg]

leocg Moderator Volunteer @tigrisan last edited by

@tigrisan If it's not listed in the extensions page, how are you using it?

[burnout426]

burnout426 Volunteer last edited by burnout426

@tigrisan said in How to pin Not From Opera Add-On To address bar:

SearchBar

I you talking about this one? If so, that one works fine for me in Opera and I can pin it no problem.

[tigrisan]

tigrisan last edited by

Re: How to pin Not From Opera Add-On To address bar

@leocg @burnout426
I tried replying to you in my thread several different ways, but no matter what I tried, I kept getting an error and the reply wouldn't go through so I'm so sorry, but this is the only way I could think to respond to you. Please delete if you need to.

I downloaded it from the Chrome Webstore and it works fine, but there was no way to pin it to the address bar. Unbeknownst to me, I had also downloaded the Chrome Webstore extension which apparently interferes with pinning anything downloaded from it to the address bar. Once I uninstalled that extension, I was able to pin Searchbar to the address bar, but it took be a few hours off and on of playing with everything to figure it out. So now I realize I can't use the Chrome Webstore extension and pin most things downloaded from that.

I did get it working and I'm happy since I've been using Searchbar forever so I'm good to go. I'll just have to remember to only use the Chrome Webstore for now and not download that extension.

Thanks!

[leocg]

leocg Moderator Volunteer @tigrisan last edited by

@tigrisan You don't see the extension listed in the extensions menu, that cube like icon in the top right?

[tigrisan]

tigrisan @leocg last edited by

@leocg said in How to pin Not From Opera Add-On To address bar:

@tigrisan You don't see the extension listed in the extensions menu, that cube like icon in the top right?

@leocg Sorry, I don't know why I can't reply to you. Still getting an error when I try.
With the Chrome extension installed, it was showing in the extensions menu, but not in the drop down at all and the pin option in the extensions menu was grayed out. After uninstalling the Chrome extension, the Searchbar extension was pinnable. I tried reinstalling the Chrome extension (I'd add the screensot, but I keep getting a parsing error) and you can see that the Searchbar extension is still pinned now and it's working great so there has to be some conflict with the Chrome extension installed.

[burnout426]

burnout426 Volunteer @tigrisan last edited by

@tigrisan said in How to pin Not From Opera Add-On To address bar:

Chrome Webstore extension

Are you talking about https://addons.opera.com/en/extensions/details/install-chrome-extensions/? If so, you no longer need to download that extension and doing so can cause problems sometimes.

[tigrisan]

tigrisan @burnout426 last edited by

@burnout426 Yes, but I've uninstalled it and things are working now.