<![CDATA[Why don’t the hard-wired search engine shortcuts work in Opera GX?]]>I enter “w hello” and it should go to Wikipedia and search for “hello.”

Instead it goes to Google and searches for “w hello.”

What’s going on? The shortcuts I entered myself work. But the shortcuts that are hardwired in the browser — Yahoo, DuckDuckGo, Wikipedia, etc. — don’t.

(“g” for Google doesn’t, either, but that’s my default search engine anyway.)

So not only can I not use the letter “w” for anything else — I can’t even use it for Wikipedia.

This sucks! What’s going on?

]]>https://forums.opera.com/topic/89039/why-don-t-the-hard-wired-search-engine-shortcuts-work-in-opera-gxRSS for NodeFri, 10 Jul 2026 16:04:50 GMTTue, 07 Jul 2026 11:04:32 GMT60<![CDATA[Reply to Why don’t the hard-wired search engine shortcuts work in Opera GX? on Tue, 07 Jul 2026 12:19:44 GMT]]>@Ooloolool they disabled built-in search engines by default in a recent update.

you can turn them back on in opera://settings/search
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(i know you already did, but for anyone else coming here that's how)

google lens is google's image search feature. it looks like this
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]]>https://forums.opera.com/post/405493https://forums.opera.com/post/405493Tue, 07 Jul 2026 12:19:44 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Why don’t the hard-wired search engine shortcuts work in Opera GX? on Tue, 07 Jul 2026 11:24:18 GMT]]>@leocg I didn’t do anything. I didn’t even know there was such a button.

And it’s weird that my personal shortcuts still worked.

I wonder how these settings came to be set that way. Recently I noticed that the ad blocker had been turned on, and I hadn’t turned it on. I hadn’t messed with settings in a while at all.

Yes, I found the button. And it was turned off. But I hadn’t turned it off.

I wonder what else has been set differently without me knowing it. Did that happen automatically, with an update, or something? No one else is on my machine.

Maybe some PC crash messed with my settings. I had to update my BIOS because I was literally getting the Blue Screen of Death.

(What the heck is “Google Lens”? Anyway, thank you!)

]]>https://forums.opera.com/post/405489https://forums.opera.com/post/405489Tue, 07 Jul 2026 11:24:18 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Why don’t the hard-wired search engine shortcuts work in Opera GX? on Tue, 07 Jul 2026 11:16:04 GMT]]>@Ooloolool Maybe you have enabled the option to disable the search engine shortcuts?

]]>https://forums.opera.com/post/405488https://forums.opera.com/post/405488Tue, 07 Jul 2026 11:16:04 GMT