@leocg Thanks. Hm...

@leocg The link in question is in my previous post, again here:

https://www.e-exercises.com/classic/admin_alt/gestion_reunions.php

If you Paste that link into the Opera address field, a search starts. If I paste the same link into Google Chrome, Maxthon, Brave, Vivaldi, or Safari, it resolves immediately!

Go ahead and try this yourself! Maybe it's just me with that issue? Please confirm.

–Martin

@leocg Fair enough. However, when I paste my link into the search/address bar of Google Chrome, I then get to the proper page, not with Opera. Opera starts to search for it.

I deleted all history, cookies, etc.

Here's the link: https://www.e-exercises.com/classic/admin_alt/gestion_reunions.php

In Chrome it prompts me to login. If I'm already logged in, I get directly to that page. Not in Opera – in Opera when I paste the link, a search begins (clicking the link works).

Can you check please?

This seems to be a bug, IMHO since clicking the link works, but not pasting the link (then the search starts).

–Martin

@leocg Please verify whether it really is not possible – I need to ditch Opera then. But if there's hope, then I'll stick around.

I'm trying to disable the feature that the address bar works like a search field. In the preferences I can only choose which search engine to use but I cannot set this to "None".

The web is full of suggestions and they are all outdated. It seems to me that Opera has NO ability to work without using the address bar as search field.

I have a link to a specific database page that constantly triggers a search in Google – horrible.

https://www.opera.com/features/search-in-tabs

Please help me to disable this Instant Search feature – perhaps somebody knows of an insider trick?

–Martin

It happened to me several times now (and I'm using the Mac for over 20 years as a developer with a zillion other applications), heck, it's way to easy to accidentally delete bookmarks in the Opera for desktop bookmarks manager!!

On the Mac, I click on the icon when I want to select something.

Yes there are people in this world who read from right to left, and who write with their left hand. Please, Opera, stick with the main stream.

Just the moment when you want to move a bookmark or rearrange a folder, then one quick click and the item is in the trash. You have to go to trash and get it back because even a simple Cmd-Z won't work.

This is why I love Safari.

Please improve managing bookmarks because I want to love Opera as well!

–Martin