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This literally only started happening today - when I start typing into the Google search bar, the first suggestions it tries to autocomplete are from my bookmarks. I don't want this to happen and don't know why it has suddenly started happening today! I've tried uninstalling and reinstalling Opera and it still happens. I've tried turning off autocomplete, but all that does is make it so it only shows my bookmarks as search suggestions!

Does anyone know why this has happened and how to stop your bookmarks from being suggested by Google autocomplete? I want to keep the autocomplete function but I don't want all of my bookmarks coming up. I know where they are - that's why they're bookmarked!

Thanks in advance for any helpful suggestions.

Hello,
I mean the address bar at the top of a page/tab, where you would type a web address. I believe this also doubles as a Google search bar which is potentially where I hadn't made myself clear (e.g., whatever I type in there that isn't a web address will take me to Google search results). Apologies for the confusion.

E.g. If I go to a new tab and in the address bar start typing the word "sound", the first suggestion is a bookmark I have for the guitar tab for a Soundgarden song, and so on. Opera suddenly uses my bookmarks as the first auto complete results, which it did not do before this weekend. I definitely would have noticed!

@burnout426 Nope, it still happens. The only difference disabling that made was instead of there being a tiny thumbnail of the site that's bookmarked, it just shows a little heart (bookmark symbol). It still comes up as the first suggestion.

I already looked if there was a "x" next to the suggestion(s), but there isn't.

@burnout426 Well I'm going to be looking for a different browser because this means I can't bookmark anything without having to go to the trouble of setting up different profiles for myself and the rest of my family in my home. That's too much effort for a feature that's completely redundant. The whole point of bookmarking something is that you know where it is. Why would I need that to come up as a suggestion? And not be able to turn the feature off?

I thought this browser had good promise, too after using Chrome. Oh, well. I hear Vivaldi doesn't do this. I'll have to try that.

@leocg It's 100% coming from my bookmarks. Otherwise it would be one hell of a coincidence for a Google suggestion to have it's top suggestion be the exact page I bookmarked 7 months ago but haven't visited since! It's exactly the same with all the other top suggestions that are from my bookmarks - they are my exact bookmarks!

@leocg No. Why on earth would I erase all of my bookmarks?? That would defeat the point of using bookmarks in the first instance, wouldn't it?

I erased one specific one as a test this evening (after already having deleted my ENTIRE browser history after reinstalling Opera) and the 1st search suggestion linked to the word I typed in was still the bookmark that I erased!

@leocg I am well aware where the suggestions are coming from.

What I want to know is why my bookmarks have suddenly started appearing as suggestions!

Have you even read just the title of my post..?

@leocg If you've already said it, there is no need to repeat it. I can read. Better than you, apparently.

You can feel free to stop responding as you have been absolutely no help whatsoever and I don't have the time or patience to converse with useless morons. At least @burnout426 offered a couple of suggestions. You've done nothing. I imagine that's par for the course for someone like you who likes the sound of his own voice.

I'll be stopping using your crappy browser and going elsewhere.

@leocg Please see reply to @burnout426
Thanks

@leocg Do you know if there has been an update or anything because this definitely only started happening for me this weekend. I have probably 100's of bookmarks so I definitely would have noticed as it would have happened almost every time I used the address/search bar...

@leocg Sticking with typing in the word "sound", the 1st suggestion is my Soundgarden-related bookmark and to the left of it is a tiny thumbnail of the website it's linked to (ultimate guitar).

The same happens for one (a bookmark) which I deleted, after already reinstalling Opera and deleting my entire browsing history.

Where is it still pulling that info from? There's nothing illegal on there or anything silly, but it's coming up to Xmas and I've been bookmarking things for Black Friday deals and I don't want the wife or kids stumbling across something!

As I said, I've been using this browser for around 9 - 10 months and this definitely ONLY started happening this past weekend.

@burnout426 Nice. Thank you for that!

@fiambredunicornio So it's not just me! Yep, the same happened to me - Opera just randomly decided one day that it was going to use my bookmarks as the first suggestions when I type something in the address bar. I have no idea why and I don't want it. It's really frustrating. If I want to go to a bookmarked page, that's what bookmarks are for! There's literally no good reason for them to start popping up as suggestions when I start typing.

I don't have any solutions for it either. Since my OP I've reinstalled a clean version of Windows 10 (for a different reason) and reinstalled everything and it STILL happens. The really weird thing is that it still tries to suggest pages that I had bookmarked previously, but have since deleted the bookmark. So I have no idea where it's even pulling some of the suggestions from if the bookmark's been deleted.

No suggestions on this page worked for me and some people were ignorantly unhelpful to the point I suspect they're autistic. This is what Opera is now. I suspect they must have released an update or something along the way as this wouldn't just suddenly happen for no reason when it didn't function like this previously.

@burnout426 I appreciate the reply, so thank you first of all.

That being said, nothing you've said has made a difference to my experience. Opera definitely did not start pulling up my bookmarks as search suggestions before I posted in this forum. It happened one day without there being any update that I was notified of (when I turned my laptop on today and opened Opera it notified me of an update that has just been installed and outlined the updated features, so I'm assuming when an update is released a user is notified in some way).

I have no idea why anyone would think adding bookmarks into search suggestions would be a good idea. When a user has bookmarked a page, they already know how to quickly access that page - that's the sole purpose of bookmarks! Adding them to search suggestions (as the first suggestions, especially!) is putting a hat on a hat. It's useless and irritating. There should definitely be a configuration for it. It clutters up almost every search I do as I have a lot of bookmarks, so I can't type anything in the search without pulling up multiple bookmarks before anything else.

I'd already tried emptying the trash from the bookmarks and the deleted bookmark still gets pulled up in suggestions. At this point I think I might have to reinstall Opera to try and get rid of that as I don't know where the errant file is it's pulling the info from and I haven't got the patience to search for it any more than I already have.

Overall, this is a hugely frustrating, disappointing experience as this feature has been forced on me with no option to turn it off. Thanks a lot, Opera.

@leocg Not for me it hasn't.
It doesn't matter how many times you type that, it doesn't change what I have experienced and am experiencing.

@leonhardttobias Agreed. I think it says it all that there was no solution or mention of it being looked at, no further responses, then in the thread there's an almost comical "about a year later" when andufo commented today. Clearly this will not be resolved.

When I tried looking into this elsewhere on the web last year I read several things regarding privacy issues with Opera so I'm glad I switched. I'd forgotten how annoying having your bookmarks getting pulled up as suggestions was! Firefox works fine for me and I imported my bookmarks there with no issue.

@leocg I've been using Opera since the start of the year (Jan/Feb?) and it has never happened until this weekend. I definitley would have noticed as I noticed it straight away when it started happening!

Is there any way to turn this off? I don't want my bookmarks coming up as suggestions. I know where they are - that was the whole point of bookmarking them!

@leocg Also, I uninstalled Opera then reinstalled it, then deleted my browsing history (from the very start), and it STILL persists! Where is it even getting the information from at this point?? It inlcudes a bookmark that I have deleted and I deleted my browsing history, so how is it still showing something I've deleted as a suggestion?