How to disable search from address bar?

Malfet

Malfet

Hi all,

Starting from yesterday both Chrome and Opera started to search for normal URL instead of going to URL. I scroll entire internet looking for options how to get rid of this nightmare or at-least to disable the search from the address bar and found it close to impossible. The most common answer to disable 'Use a prediction service to help complete searches and URLs typed in the address bar' in settings - Does Not Help . It has zero effect on the browser behavior. I can add a "null" search engine in Opera, but I can not specify it as a default search engine, so this solution does not help either. I tried to disable all possible options related to 'autofill' - no effect. Any other ideas/suggestions??? Please??

leocg

leocg Moderator Volunteer @Malfet

@malfet There is no way to disable search in address, but there is also no search for typed URLs.
It only happens when you write the URL wrongly.

Malfet

Malfet @leocg

@leocg Thanks for the reply. The URL is correct, but only specific URL gives this weird behavior. The URL looks like this http://server.ip.add.ress:port_number/token I know that the URL is correct, the server is up and running, the port is open, the token is correct and the entire URL should work, if the browser would actually follow the URL instead of searching for it!

leocg

leocg Moderator Volunteer @Malfet

@malfet How is the behavior in other Chromium based browsers? I guess Chromium, or at least Opera, no longer accepts non-secure (http) links using non-default ports.

Malfet

Malfet @leocg

@leocg It happens also in Chrome and even Firefox. It also behaves the same on Windows and Linux, but for some reasons works on Mac. I really do not get why... The reason I posted the question here was my hope to disable the search from address bar specifically in Opera, because I could not do it in Chrome. But now I seems to be totally screwed...