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Mormani

An update for anyone reading this. First, I wanna thank @andrew84 for mentioning my topic along with others in a comment on an Opera blog post. After that, I was able to find useful information about the issues I pointed out here.

@burnout426 said in I'm missing the "Create search engine" entry:

However, when you visit supported sites like Youtube that tell browsers how to search the site, you will see that a search engine for it is now automatically added to the opera://settings/searchEngines page where all you have to do is click "Activate" for it, and then edit its keyword if you want.

@burnout426 said in I'm missing the "Create search engine" entry:

The whole autodetect + activate thing just comes from Chromium that Opera turned on. Opera's context menu search engine enumeration just isn't set up to skip inactive engines yet. I consider that a bug.

So, as burnout426 said there, Chromium added the feature "Tab to search", basically, the website provides the URL used in its searches, and the browser might automatically add it as a search engine. For these websites, DevTools shows the OpenSearch document they expose.

Opera Forums:

Playwright:

The Chromium article also explains why visiting homepage (commonly origin without a path) adds the search engine:

For 1 and 2 Chromium only adds sites that the user navigated to without a path. For example http://mysite.com, but not http://mysite.com/foo.

That being said, I can answer my own questions.

Currently there is no option to disable this feature, but it would be great to have it, saving bandwidth, disk space and preventing the inactive shortcuts list from growing. It's worth mentioning that Vivaldi uses a newer Chromium version (150) and doesn't auto-add search engines, so the Opera dev team could add this option.
Not skipping inactive engines is considered a bug by burnout426, they assigned RNA-3999 ID for this bug, and said it's fixed internally. Unfortunately there is no mention of this code in recent changelogs (v133, v134, v135), so I guess we need to wait for this fix reach developer release and even longer for stable release (the one I use).

My Opera version is now 133.0.5932.60, and the bug still persists.

Mormani

It has been annoying to use custom search engines in Opera because every time I visit a website, it looks like Opera finds some common search URLs and adds them to Inactive shortcuts (Atalhos inativos).

The worst part is that inactive shortcuts are visible in "Search with" (Pesquisar com) context menu feature, making it impossible to quickly find and select the desired engine after selecting text.

Two screenshots are available at the end of this description.

The only search engines I actually added are the ones in Site search (Pesquisa em sites) section, I've never added nor deactivated those search engines listed under Inactive shortcuts section.

Taking Playwright as example. I searched about it last friday and I visited only its homepage and .NET installation page, but after that, without using its website search feature, the search URL was listed there.

The same goes for GeyserMC, Globoplay, Google Translate, PCGamingWiki, Puppeteer, Dom Caixeta (a restaurant wordpress website that is not even working). I access other websites often, but it does not mean I want their search engines added to my browser.

I don't visit Opera forums often and when I started writing this topic, its search engine was added to inactive section and visible in the last position of the search with context menu.

Then I have some questions:

Is it possible to disable this auto-add search engine? If so, how can I do it?
Is it possible to hide the "inactive" engines? If so, how?
Can Opera dev team fix both issues if they are bugs?

Opera version: 131.0.5877.116
Windows 10 version: 22H2

My Opera search engines settings:

"Search with" context menu:

Mormani

It just happened again, and this time I recorded a video:
https://youtu.be/WsFNpKx6xSw

@Mormani said in I lost all My Flow content:

I also don't remember the exact messages well, so I'll try to write something close to what I saw.

Now it's possible to see that the messages I wrote earlier aren’t exactly the same as the real ones, but there is a similar sentence in parentheses, which I highlighted at 01:25 in the video.

Translation: "Content will continue to be available on other connected devices."

Unfortunately, at the end of the video, you can see my Opera account being disconnected, and My Flow on Android was also disconnected. Because of this I lost all content again, which contradicts the message shown in "Redefinir" (Reset) modal.

After that, I tried reconnecting to My Flow, but it's still showing the same UFO error screen, and https://opera.com/connect is stuck in an infinite loading loop, even after restarting both the browser and my laptop a few times.

Is it possible for someone at Opera to fix this issue?

Mormani

Today, I was browsing on Opera for Android. I sent some links to My Flow, and after a few hours, I turned on my laptop to access those websites. Unfortunately, when I opened My Flow on the Opera Browser, I encountered an error page.

I didn't take a screenshot of the page because I thought the available options would fix it — but they didn't. I also don't remember the exact messages well, so I'll try to write something close to what I saw.

The page displayed a UFO image with an error message below and two buttons: one labeled "Recarregar" (Reload/Refresh) and the other "Restaurar" (Restore/Recover).

I tried reloading multiple times, but the same error page kept appearing. Then, I clicked the second button, which triggered a modal with the following message:

"We will try to recover your content, but if it's not possible, you need to reconnect using another device (the history on other devices will not be deleted [...])."

So, I clicked OK, and it disconnected my Opera account from the browser and disabled synchronization on Android — completely wiping My Flow content on both devices. After that, I reconnected my account, but My Flow was empty.

I searched both Google and this website for solutions to recover the content, but I found nothing. I also came across many topics about My Flow content being lost, and it's shocking how, after all these years, Opera still cannot save My Flow data properly — unlike passwords, pinboards, bookmarks, etc.

I've lost my content multiple times before due to connection issues. The only reason I didn't lose it more often was that I had 4 devices using My Flow, so at least one always retained the content for the others. But now, I only have 2 devices, and it’s frustrating to see this issue persist.

Sorry for the wall of text, but earlier I was really frustrated with this problem and felt the need to share it.

Opera version: 117.0.5408.53
Windows 10 version: 22H2

Opera for Android version: 87.7.4607.83311 (com.opera.browser)

Mormani

This problem, said in the following threads, was bothering me sometimes and I was checking if it was fixed, looks like it was but...

But when I was moving some tab islands around the following bugs happened: https://giphy.com/gifs/rCK9U0vnBNfmBzEJIr/fullscreen

Steps to reproduce are show in the GIF.

Expected behaviors are fixed tabs always being on far left position and cannot move tabs after new tab button +.

Opera version: 102.0.4880.56.

Mormani

I just upgraded my Opera to 102.0.4880.56 version and they added back the Speed Dial button next to the URL box.

I'm posting this cause some users mentioned that Opera One update removed it, but I don't know how it's going GX.