Posts made by jaekobcaed

After the news that DuckDuckGo is permitting Microsoft to track its searches, I firmly believe Opera needs to add support for Brave Search or, at the very least, Startpage. I love Opera (especially GX) but the fact that I still only have DDG as an option for "privacy-friendly" searches is frustrating. I know we can Technically add new search engines but I've never gotten that feature to work and I do most of my searches directly in the address bar anyways.

Please add the ability to select Brave Search, Startpage and other popular search engines as our default search engine!

@leocg Thanks for your reply but crap, that sucks.

Hi,

In light of DuckDuckGo's recent announcement that they're going to start censoring results, I'm hoping to switch to a different search engine. I've tried to add Brave Search as a custom search engine but the info I found when searching for help on how to set it up was quite old and I can't get the keyword to work. However, I don't like having to type a keyword at all. I like being able to just type my query directly into the search engine as I've been doing with DDG in the past.

Is there any way I can set up a custom search engine to do just that? If not, I suppose I'll have to stick with DDG but my trust in them was significantly altered after that announcement so I'm hoping someone can help me figure out how to get this set up properly so I can just go back to searching with the address bar via different search engines.

@burnout426 Okay, it seems everything worked. Thanks for your help!

@burnout426 Hi, thank you for your suggestion, I will give it a try in a bit and then come back to report what happens.

• OS: Windows 7 Home Premium SP1 64-bit
• Opera GX Version: 82.0.4227.25

Hi, recently I noticed that Opera GX was no longer listed as my default browser for some reason. Before, I had it set to default but something changed the default browser back to IE.

The weird thing is that when I try to make GX my default browser, either by the browser settings, nothing happens. When I try to go through the default programs menu in Windows, GX doesn't even show up as an option there.

I ended up temporarily setting Firefox as my default browser for now but I primarily use GX which is why I'm hoping to be able to figure this issue out. Is there anything I can try? I also recently ran a virus scan to make sure that I didn't pick something up that changed things. I also haven't changed any OS settings recently and in terms of browser settings, I didn't touch any flags or advanced settings for quite some time.

Any suggestions to try? Thanks in advance!

It must just be me since I haven't seen any other reports but since the most recent update for Opera GX, I've noticed that the browser uses a huge amount of disk activity when I try to open tabs while running an application that uses any significant amount of system resources. When I observe this in Resource Monitor, I've noticed it's a high amount of my disk trying to read a DLL, for whatever reason. It'll lock up my entire browser for a few seconds when this happens, though when I'm not running anything other than GX, it runs flawlessly.

Is this only on my end or is anyone else experiencing this as well?

@josuegrs Hmm odd, I'll try troubleshooting it at some point if it doesn't resolve itself. I mean, it appears to just be a visual glitch but still, it's rather irritating.

@josuegrs Yes, I absolutely agree. More freedom and control is a good thing, IMO.

Hey all, after the recent update, I noticed that GX Control appears to be giving VERY inaccurate readings for my RAM usage. I don't have many tabs open, yet at launch, it's telling me that it's using around 10gb of RAM. I know this isn't true because I opened Task Manager to check and none of the individual processes use more than about 300mb of RAM and I have 16gb on my system in total, with only about 8gb being used right now (I'm running a game).

I just wanted to ask first to see if anyone else is encountering this before I actually submit a support thread.

Hi, I really love the Free games section in GX Corner as it alerts me to some really cool games to try out but I feel like we don't have as much control over the filters for that section as we could.

For example, I have never and will never subscribe to Game Pass (I'm against it in general) so I don't need to see any of those on there, so it'd be nice if I had an option to hide those. Another example could be the free weekends/free trial events that are listed there. Personally, I have a use for those but I'm sure there are many that wouldn't.

A feature like this would be incredibly useful to me and I'm sure it'd be useful to others as well.

@akita121 The problem is that TOR isn't suited for everyday use. It's good for protecting sensitive info (online banking, for example) but due to its very design, it's certainly not the best for daily use. Even VPNs have a similar issue, albeit to a lesser extent.

Yep, same here.

Glad to see it's not just me having this issue. Hopefully it's just a bug!

I went to check to see if any new free games were listed on GX Corner but I can't find it after the most recent update. Was it removed? I hope not, I enjoyed using it to find interesting new games and it also helped me maintain a thread on GOG's forum where I listed free events/free weekends for everyone.

@leocg I'm using GX, I just updated to whatever the newest one is and it's now there. Thanks for letting me know!

I'm honestly not sure why this extension's functionality isn't just hard coded into Opera because it's fantastic. I used it to install DuckDuckGo's extension as it is on Chrome (as the Opera version is just a glorified search bar) and it worked perfectly.

I don't use this in Opera but I have used it for years in Firefox and Chrome. It's a fantastic extension that allows for near-limitless customization of your browser home page. It has several features I hope Opera will implement eventually, such as the ability to customize the image you use for your speed dial icons.

This is as advertised but it's essentially just a glorified search bar, not the privacy protection tool that they advertise on their site. That is only easily available on Chrome and Firefox. If you want the full features of their normal extension -- tracker blocking, site ratings, quick access to DuckDuckGo, etc -- then you'll need to grab the "Install Chrome Extensions" extension and visit the Chrome web store. The Chrome version works flawlessly when installed this way.

As with HTTPS Everywhere, I consider Privacy Badger to be an absolute necessity. While ad blockers can be relatively up to the individual, this extension is not. The EFF outdid themselves with this extension. It's easily the most advanced tracker blocker I've encountered, as it doesn't just use definitions lists to block these trackers. The extension learns to block trackers, even if they're brand new, based upon their behavior. As such, this is literally the most advanced privacy protection extension you can get right now. If you use it in combination with an ad blocker, maybe even on top of Opera's built-in ad/tracker blocking, you'll be in seriously good shape.

Privacy is not optional, it's essential.