Also, there's two sections for the same thing actually.
'Inactive shortcuts' and 'Additional inactive sites'.

Instead of allowing sorting the engines at least (if deleting the default engines is restricted), they just cut functional and implement the feature's absurd working algoritms.

But like I mentioned in the blog I tried installing Vivaldi (150 chromium) and there are no changes. Still the 'create search engine' option exists in context menu and no automated engines adding.

So the conclusion is simple. It's possible to restore the previous behaviour currently. Not clear if temporarly due to chrome limitiations or opera team's wish. At least there wasn't any feedback regarding the recent dumb change.

In Opera One and Opera Developer is the right click entry on a site search field "Create search engine" gone.
It is still present in Opera GX and Opera Air.

I ran into the same confusion after updating Opera. At first I thought the feature had been removed completely, but it turns out it depends on how the website's search box is implemented. Being able to add a search engine manually through the settings is helpful, but I still think bringing back the "Create Search Engine" option consistently would make the feature much easier to discover and use, especially for people who frequently add custom searches.

Opera's context menu search engine enumeration just isn't set up to skip inactive engines yet. I consider that a bug.

I agree – it makes absolutely no sense for deactivated search engines to appear in the drop-down menu. It just ends up looking a mess after a while.

My most used search has always been on maps.google.com. After reading your post and the description of how it works now I was surprised that a search wasn't created.

Probably something that maps.google.com needs to fix to get the autodetect part to work.

pera's context menu search engine enumeration just isn't set up to skip inactive engines yet. I consider that a bug.

RNA-3999 for that.

thing just comes from Chromium that Opera turned on

So it's pointless to request from Opera team restoring or fixing the habitual way of creating engines ?

In Opera One and Opera Developer is the right click entry on a search field "Create search engine" gone.
It is still present in Opera GX and Opera Air.

If you need it back, try Opera GX or Air. Otherwise, use Settings to manually add a search engine. Hope this helps!

when you visit supported sites like Youtube that tell browsers how to search the site, you will see that a search engine for it is now automatically added

I don't understang the logic at all...
I don't understand why it was changed this way. If doing like this, there should be just option whether to automatically add engines or not while visiting sites.

Btw, here even not active engines are displayed in the right click menu...

So instead of adding/editing search engine during the creating is need first activate it (but actually it's already active partially, for the context menu) an then edit.
Another one 'genius' implementation of the well working feature.

• right-click on a the search field
• Add as Search Engine...
  and transfer the values ​​to Opera.

My most used search has always been on maps.google.com. After reading your post and the description of how it works now I was surprised that a search wasn't created. Especially after noticing that a search that I had to activate was created for drive.google.com (I was able to create my own search for that site).

However, when you visit supported sites like Youtube that tell browsers how to search the site, you will see that a search engine for it is now automatically added to the opera://settings/searchEngines page where all you have to do is click "Activate" for it, and then edit its keyword if you want.

You can get to the opera://settings/searchEngines page fast by right-clicking in the address field and choosing "Edit search engines". Or, you can bookmark the opera://settings/searchEngines URL as a speed dial or bookmark.

Opera One(version: 132.0.5905.112)