I don't guarantee it will, but I have reason to think it might. So I think it would be a "reasonable try" for you to set a default engine in Disconnect, other than Google, choose the setting - if you want - in Disconnect Search that your searches take place in the main Opera address bar, AND SEE if the crazy default problem where Google keeps coming up, disappears. It would appear that through the extension it has become in a sense my default, notwithstanding the general Opera setting. But when I select DuckDuckGo as my search engine in the Disconnect search extension, whenever I type a search in the Opera main address bar, DuckDuckGo is automatically used. I do that with Disconnect (so I do have experience with it). Here's why! First, you can in the extension's settings, choose for the search to be through the main Opera address bar, obviating the need to set up a second search bar that will take up space. In my view, it is worth a try to run your Search through the Disconnect Search extension. Lem729 last edited don't purport to have the technical knowledge to know why you have that Google problem, but I do use the Disconnect Search extension, which I referred to in my note to you, though at the end, so perhaps you didn't focus on it. Thanks in advance to anyone with some serious knowledge in this area!!!
Opera needs to respect my setting and stop overriding it, and I'm hoping that someone here knows how to make it do that. It is absurd to have to manually delete Google as soon as I open up Opera every single time. I have set it to default every single time I've used Opera, and every time I start a new session, StartPage is still in the available searches but Google has reappeared as the default. I already understand the information provided to me (I have no idea why I was directed to simply add another search engine - I already explained in my first post that I did exactly that!) I use StartPage which is the only somewhat anonymous search engine on the web, and it's the only one I ever want my browser to use. I don't know if Opera has some creepy contract with Google or what, but none of the other search engines are behaving this way with this browser.
Google doesn't need any more of anyone's information than they already get. There's some background file or setting that is not only making Google UN-deleted but also reset as the DEFAULT search engine - for the search bar and the address bar. Ok I'm going to need some help from someone with a LOT more technical knowledge here. And through using Disconnect, you can even make DuckDuckGo a default search in the Omnibus search-address bar - even though it is not one of Opera's default engines. Maybe Google is still on the computer ))) but you never have to use it, or if you do through Disconnect, the search query is private, not traced to you (or so the Disconnect Search people are saying).
They have five default search engines (one of which is DuckDuckGo, and you can set up the one you want to operate from the main Opera Search bar. Whatever you type in the Search bar when you use a major search engine can only be traced to Disconnect Search, not to you. If you're concerned about that, the Disconnect Search extension may be perfect for you. Dogpile is do (once you add it to Opera).Īlternatively, you can add extensions that might be good for you in terms of security. So you can search from the Opera address bar with almost any search engine, by just adding it to Opera (at the search website) (finding the initial (s) to precede your search. So if you want to search with DuckDuckGo from the address bar, just type d. Then right click on the address bar, go to edit search engine, and you will see the letter that goes with duckduckgo. If you want to search with something else (other than the five main potential default search engines), go to the website of the search engine (in this case let's say, duckduckgo), right click on the search bar there, and add the engine to Opera. And you know, you can add search engines. I don't know that you can eliminate it as an option from the Omnisearch main address bar. You can hide the Google Search box from the Speed Dial page.