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@leocg Thank you. I never thought a browser would restrict what search engines we can set so searching never crossed my mind. I didn't think any browsers restricted that and I did think it was a bug.
Just to be clear, I wasn't trying to change the search engine on the Start Page, I was trying to change the search engine to a custom one I added in the address bar and search bar, not the Start Page.
Regards.
I added my own preferred search engine under "Other search engines" however the browser doesn't allow me to set it as the default search engine. The option to click to select the search engine as default is greyed out. I have posted three screenshots below of the browser search engine issue and a third with system information and browser information at the end of the post.
Steps to reproduce:
1.) Add a search engine that isn't included in Opera Browser by default.
2.) Attempt to set as default. (Not possible.)
Expected behavior:
1.) I should be able to set any search engine I add as the default search engine so that when I type into the search box at the top-right of the browser or in the address bar box it will use the search engine I added and specified.
Opera version: 85.0.4341.60
Browser identification
Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/99.0.4844.84 Safari/537.36 OPR/85.0.4341.60
Install: C:\Program Files\Opera
Profile: C:\Users\username\AppData\Roaming\Opera Software\Opera Stable
Cache: C:\Users\username\AppData\Local\Opera Software\Opera Stable
Installation type
For all users on this computer
@leocg Thank you. I never thought a browser would restrict what search engines we can set so searching never crossed my mind. I didn't think any browsers restricted that and I did think it was a bug.
Just to be clear, I wasn't trying to change the search engine on the Start Page, I was trying to change the search engine to a custom one I added in the address bar and search bar, not the Start Page.
Regards.
I made a post about being able to set custom default search engines as well, Brave Search for example. Hopefully they fix that too.
I added my own preferred search engine under "Other search engines" however the browser doesn't allow me to set it as the default search engine. The option to click to select the search engine as default is greyed out. I have posted three screenshots below of the browser search engine issue and a third with system information and browser information at the end of the post.
Steps to reproduce:
1.) Add a search engine that isn't included in Opera Browser by default.
2.) Attempt to set as default. (Not possible.)
Expected behavior:
1.) I should be able to set any search engine I add as the default search engine so that when I type into the search box at the top-right of the browser or in the address bar box it will use the search engine I added and specified.
Opera version: 85.0.4341.60
Browser identification
Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/99.0.4844.84 Safari/537.36 OPR/85.0.4341.60
Install: C:\Program Files\Opera
Profile: C:\Users\username\AppData\Roaming\Opera Software\Opera Stable
Cache: C:\Users\username\AppData\Local\Opera Software\Opera Stable
Installation type
For all users on this computer
@franzholz Oh yes, my bad. I knew the solus-project link is dead. That solus-project link just happened to end up in my copy and paste of a comment at the stackexchange link. I was referring to the stackexchange link and all of the comments, replies, and posts at that stackexchange link.
@franzholz The link is not wrong. I encounter the same exact problems on OpenSuse Tumbleweed. It is either a bug or the format is unsupported due to proprietary licenses.
Please explain and list details as to why you believe the link is wrong.
This seems to be a problem with Opera that needs to be fixed. It is written about at this link.
https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/384015/h-264-support-for-opera-and-opensuse
""1
This unfortunately is a known problem in Opera spanning to OpenSuse 42.3. YouTube reports that H.264 and MSE & H.264 both are unsupported when accessed from that OS. This is using Opera 46.0.2597.26, not quite as fresh as yours, but newer OS.
Looking around the web, there is reference to a Chromium codec patch. Uninstalling Chromium makes no difference on my setup, nor force reinstalling ffmpeg after uninstall of Chromium's extra codecs. For those not feint of heart, there is a manual-linking solution [1] involving libffmpeg.so, which seems to have success there (but must be redone each time Opera is updated). I have not tried the manual linking.
[1] https://solus-project.com/forums/viewtopic.php?t=1004 ""
