Yeah it probably is down to money rather that some programming/coding limit

But I very much doubt that microsoft pays google to have Bing as an option for default search in chrome. Google probably loses out when someone makes bing the default. But rather than restrict it they allow you to use bing if you want.

Also there is the fact that there is no way that wikipedia pays opera anything so if opera can have wikipedia as an option they should have kept bing. Or at least made it a lot easier to add bing ourselves without having to edit .json files or whatever else needs editing

Maybe but if thats the reason then they should have removed the wikipedia search considering wikipedia results always come up in bing and google searches anyway.

Thanks.

I done what it said in the thread and got bing back.

I don't like their reason for dropping bing though. Why not just add Duckduckgo and keep bing?

In any case if I lose bing again next time opera updates I will have to uninstall as I don't see why anyone should have to jump through hoops to get their preferred search engine as default.

All other main browsers let you set bing as default. Even google chrome allows it so not sure why Opera sees fit to try and dictate what search I can use.

I find it ridiculous that I can't set Bing as the default search.

Opera is a good browser but without bing as default search option I won't be using it.

Wow. That's just stupid.

Looks like I wont be using Opera then. Shame as it's a good browser otherwise.

Thanks for replying though.

I can't find any way to change the default search to Bing.

I prefer bing but for some reason Opera is the only browser that doesn't seem to recognise the fact that Bing exists.

Thanks.

I've installed that Realbookmarks

Originally posted by Pesala:

Originally posted by malacath360:

I just think Opera needs bookmarks

It already has bookmarks — enable the Quick Access Bar with "opera:flags" and in settings, then import your bookmarks from old opera or D&D from HTML file links to the QAB.

I've done that. But it doesn't do anything.

There is no quick access bar below the address bar.

Also the bookmark import option is greyed out.

EDIT: I got the bookmark bar working but can't get the importer working at all. It's still greyed out.

I like the new Opera. It means I can finally ditch Chrome which you could almost class as spyware.

I just think Opera needs bookmarks