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    How to disable Google search suggestions in address bar?

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    • steaua10
      steaua10 last edited by steaua10

      After the latest update,
      How to disable Google search suggestions in address bar?
      I need only suggestions from history and bookmarks. Perhaps a few Google search suggestions could be after them.

      E.g. when I type "watch..." I want to see mainly the suggestions from my history and bookmarks, where they are some 5 to 10 entries. Google search suggestions are not so important for me.

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      • donq
        donq @steaua10 last edited by

        @steaua10
        You likely cannot disable them entirely (I complained about that some time ago), but you can minimize their negative effect by disabling opera internal flag chrome://flags/#address-bar-dropdown-categories

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        • steaua10
          steaua10 @donq last edited by

          @donq Thanks.

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          • 75338a
            75338a @donq last edited by

            @donq Thank you so very much. The "Suggestions" section that was added some months ago was slowly driving me nuts, with no way to disable it.

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            • Dorkspace
              Dorkspace last edited by

              I had those shitty suggestions removed, now after x months they are back again.

              I usually used the history suggestions to not have to remember all plages i visit, now the search suggestions are in the way and also bookmark suggestions.

              Yesterday it only showed history suggestions, which was perfect.

              Thats like 5th time this has been turned on with an update, f'##k you Opera.

              the suggested flag from above does not, the suggestions do not vanish ...

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              • leocg
                leocg Moderator Volunteer @Dorkspace last edited by

                @dorkspace Here disabling the setting for search suggestions worked and only the ones from history and bookmarks were shown.

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                • Dorkspace
                  Dorkspace @leocg last edited by

                  @leocg Hmm i tried that, but i have disabled it now and it is still shown.

                  Guess i will migrate to OperaGX sick of these random forced feature experiments, which keep me annoyed and entertained for days.

                  And reseting the browser is no option, it would take me days to setup everything again.

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