Posts made by bariton

@burnout426 said in How to delete a default search engine?:

@bariton said in How to delete a default search engine?:

why is there no "delete" entry?

They are protected so that malware/viruses can't mess with them.

Yeah, but I do not think malware would do that via the settings interface, clicking on menu items. And my precious manually added entries are not protected

Also, Opera has deals with the default search engines. Not allowing the user to delete them might be part of the deal. Opera has never said that though. It's just a guess.

Yes, that is what I was thinking, too. I can understand this, things like that are not uncommon, but its not convenient for me. This and cookie handling pushed me to switch to vivaldi browser on the desktop. Both things are better in vivaldi, looks like it is more user-friendly.

I hate to switch browsers, but getting open tabs and bookmarks from one to the other was not that much work. Interesting thing: operas former lead developer started vivaldi after internal problems, so I hope there is the good spirit that lasted until opera version 12.

To be fair, I prefer opera on my mobile device for its text wrap function when zooming in, this is very helpful. But that seems to be another story, I read there is a patent on word wrapping on a mobile device. Funny thing.

@leocg Why? Whats the problem?

I want to delete a default search engine to shorten the list.
Seems not to work via settings, why is there no "delete" entry?
How can I do that?

Cookie management needs to be reworked.
No one can understand why its not possible to delete a specific file.

@werby Exactly.
All we need is a hierarchic tree of options/functions.
Yes funny about the exit button, it should be on the far left side.

My main problem about changes like this is the time and manpower that went into it. Its a waste.
It would be better to help the user with cookies/local storage and so on, the user should be able to decide what happens on their device, not some remote site.

@leocg This extension might be an option, but it seems not to be sure if it works with opera. Infos on github differ, possibly related to opera versions.

https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/cookie-autodelete/fhcgjolkccmbidfldomjliifgaodjagh/

@leocg Thats disappointing, if opera is a 1:1 copy, what is it here for?

@amatczak Thank you for clearing this up.

@leocg I was hoping that opera wants to be ahead of chrome. Do you think that the feature I suggested would be helpful?

@leocg said in Better cookie management:

@bariton Session only cookies is already the exception, so I guess you can't make it the default behavior.

I think that's why my original post is in the suggestions section.

@leocg said in Better cookie management:

@bariton Those are incorrect formats, that's why they don't work. The first one is correct, so it works.

Thats what I see, but it doesnt help.

@leocg said in Better cookie management:

@bariton That search field is for you to search for sites that have set a cookie. So if you want to see Google related cookies, you search for Google.

I know, thats why I described what I am doing.
Using search from menu,
and try Ctrl-A.

Hi,

is it possible to turn off smileys in the forum when writing a post?
I prefer : ) compared to
Did not find an option in my account settings.

@leocg PS: for the purpose of counting the string "cook" at this settings page, I tried Ctrl-A to select all text, paste it into an editor and count the string, but selecting all strings at that page does not work. Uff

@leocg Yes, [* .]test.com does work, but "[* .][* .]test.com" or "[* .][* .]com" do not.

But that does not help me with my suggestion, because idk which site i will use tomorrow, so I can't add an exception for it.
I want to accept all cookies, but session only, removed at tab close, or maybe window close for no real reason.
The exception are sites that I want to store permanent cookies.

@leocg Thank you for trying that, but this is not what I described in both posts. Its about string search on the page in settings/siteData. I don't want to search for "cook" in an address, that seems useless.

My original aim was to count cookies, so I tried to search the string "cook" on that page.
The funny thing is, that neither searching for "cook" nor "e" seems to work correctly on that specific settings page. The number of occurrences and highlights looks wrong, too less.

Cookie search for "e" in the address does work correctly, but does not give me the number, I just tried that now for testing, but its of no use for my case.

Sorry for these complications.

@leocg Thank you, I will play with the options to see if it works for me.

Hm no, a quick test shows that I cant put "* . * . *" (without the spaces, I need to do that for the forum only) into the "remove when closed" field - invalid website.

So I am basically back to start:
I would prefer all cookies are session only, and a list of sites for permanent storage.

My usage scenario is that my PC is always on, so opera runs forever, thats why closing opera is not the best way for me. So removing the unused cookies when closing a tab would be good, as this marks the end of communicating with a site.

PS: did you try my count the string "cook" thing in settings/siteData in my first post?
Its just about string search on the page, if I search for "e" now and here while typing, I get lots of hits what looks correct. But not on the mentioned page. Dont use Ctrl-F as it sets the focus to cookie search, use the menu top left. What happens at your browser?

@kedrussia I guess yes, but never did that. Maybe someone else here can help you to talk to the right person/channel.

@kedrussia Yeah, sorry I think I cant help you here. I am using just one window, organizing tabs in workspaces.

@leocg So the padlock would be for allow.
But how is it possible to remove cookies of an actual tab when the last tab of the site is closed? In settings/cookies one option is "delete cookies if a window is closed". I hardly close opera, just tabs when I dont need them anymore.