Thank you all. The update has resolved the issue.

Really weird considering that is was clean installation on a brand new PC few days ago.

@denisgurcu Hi, me too. This is actually my very first and also last post on this forum. Today it happened again. Once on my personal PC (Win) about 4 months ago and now on my work laptop (MacBook Pro M1). I've lost months of work, all my history, all my bookmarks, all my opened tabs. The only appropriate reaction is to uninstall Opera. Sad to see this happen, f***ing angry that the developers let this happen.

Thank you all. The update has resolved the issue.

Really weird considering that is was clean installation on a brand new PC few days ago.

Anyone please?

Hi all,

I have installed Opera to my new Windows machine and I face one very annoying problem. Every time I try to open a new web page it opens Google with a search query that exactly matches what I put into the URL / search field.

I´ve been using Opera for past few years and the behavior was always such as incomplete name such as "CNN" would open Google however if I put there cnn.com or www.cnn.com it would directly open the webpage. The problem is that now it opens the Google search only. You can see it on the screenshot.

I don´t want to search for cnn.com, I want to open the URL.

This behavior is the same for every website. Even after successfully opening / visiting the website. It still then opens the Google Search and not the website directly. It is as if the upper bar was no longer hybrid between URL bar and a search bar and it turned into a search bar only.

How do I fix this extremely annoying behavior please?

Thank you kindly,
Lukas

Windows: 19041.1052
Opera: 76.0.4017.190