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How to set default search engine & Speed Dial search engine in Opera?

Saturday, April 14, 2007 5:01:35 AM

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Default search engine

Tools > Preferences > Search > [Select] Search engine > Edit... > Details >> > [Check] Use as default search engine

Speed Dial search engine

Tools > Preferences > Search > [Select] Search engine > Edit... > Details >> > [Check] Use as Speed Dial search engine

Google as default search engine & Speed Dial search engine
Google as default search engine & Speed Dial search engine

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Tamil Saturday, November 7, 2009 10:51:42 AM

Originally posted by serola:

Is there a way to remove the search field completely on speed dials page?

yes disable Use as Speed Dial search engine (see post).

Sami Serolaserola Saturday, November 7, 2009 10:59:01 AM

doh I must be blind o

EDIT: And thank you!

Unregistered user Wednesday, November 11, 2009 5:48:50 AM

Anonymous writes: I was editing my search engine defaults and accidentally delete the string of text following google.com, without which the search bar doesn't work. So very grateful for this screen shot being here ty!

Unregistered user Friday, November 27, 2009 5:07:15 PM

MNEH writes: Thank you very much - I managed to use this info to set my search engine as googleUK. Prior to reading your advice, attempting to do this had been unsuccessful.

Unregistered user Wednesday, December 2, 2009 8:15:11 AM

Anonymous writes: Good tip, thanks for this :)

Unregistered user Wednesday, December 2, 2009 9:16:53 PM

ownyasoul writes: that was so easy ! thanks

Unregistered user Sunday, December 20, 2009 6:12:50 PM

Anonymous writes: Heavens! Thanks! Glad that you exist.

Unregistered user Thursday, December 24, 2009 9:13:42 PM

Anonymous writes: Dogpile us please. I want one engine to enter and 10 tabs searching output PLEASE. Opera rules and I NEED this when searching tickers.

Unregistered user Friday, January 1, 2010 3:23:04 PM

Anonymous writes: shokar

Unregistered user Thursday, February 4, 2010 7:54:49 AM

nescafe writes: thaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaanx

Sara Bernardsarabernard Sunday, February 14, 2010 2:00:49 PM

Oh my goodness! Thanks Tamil!!! I deleted it and then couldn't find out how to put it back!!! Argh!!!! lol!!! And it's way better now 'casue b4 it always did the google search on the Spain website now it is directed to the US website!!! Whew!!!!

Unregistered user Wednesday, March 24, 2010 9:17:09 PM

Anonymous writes: Perfect. Thanks.

Stephen Turrellstve10 Tuesday, April 13, 2010 3:54:56 PM

Hi tamil I'm trying to remove the search field from the speedial in Opera 10.5 read your post above but could not find the post mentioned.
"Is there a way to remove the search field completely on speed dials page?
disable Use as Speed Dial search engine (see post)."
doh

Tamil Tuesday, April 13, 2010 4:23:12 PM

Originally posted by stve10:

could not find the post mentioned.

I referred to this blog post.

Stephen Turrellstve10 Tuesday, April 13, 2010 5:12:36 PM

Sorry Tamil i've looked but canoot find it,
must be getting old please help doh doh

Tamil Tuesday, April 13, 2010 5:16:35 PM

Tools > Preferences > Search > Select Speed Dial Search engine > Edit... > Details >> > [Uncheck] Use as Speed Dial search engine

Stephen Turrellstve10 Tuesday, April 13, 2010 5:35:44 PM

Many thanks worked a treat.cheers

Tamil Tuesday, April 13, 2010 5:39:17 PM

smile

Unregistered user Saturday, April 24, 2010 8:55:59 PM

ramen writes: Thanx, Tamil! Just what I was desperately looking for. :)

Unregistered user Saturday, May 1, 2010 10:10:44 AM

Anonymous writes: Hey Thank you, my google search was using dutch language even though the system and all are in english. i deleted it and didnt know what was the exact address to rewrite it. i just typed it back and now its in english. thanks again.

Unregistered user Saturday, May 15, 2010 2:16:10 PM

Anonymous writes: wow! thanks a lot!!

Unregistered user Thursday, May 20, 2010 9:22:31 PM

Anonymous writes: Thankss

Unregistered user Friday, May 28, 2010 5:19:10 AM

mak writes: thanxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx

Unregistered user Sunday, June 13, 2010 1:40:33 AM

Anonimo writes: Correct address Limked above in first image. http://www.google.com/search?q=%s&num=%i&sourceid=opera Enjoy with opera

Tamil Sunday, June 13, 2010 3:05:44 AM

What is wrong? confused

Unregistered user Thursday, June 24, 2010 9:06:40 AM

Grey writes: Thanks

Unregistered user Saturday, June 26, 2010 5:03:35 PM

Anonymous writes: I dunno... Maybe they should make these things EASIER to customize so some dumbass doesn't need to make a tut for it.

Unregistered user Friday, July 2, 2010 10:52:19 AM

m920621m writes: Hi, I recently updated my opera version to 10.60 and instantly came across an issue. Opera set bing as my default speed dial search engine. However, previously it used to be google. I tried to change it back to google in the settings but it doesn't allow me to do that. I tick the box "use as speed dial search engine" but I can't click OK. OK button doesn't seem to work. Is there any way to fix this?

Tamil Friday, July 2, 2010 11:08:58 AM

Make sure keyword field is not empty.

Unregistered user Friday, July 2, 2010 4:06:33 PM

m920621m writes: Thanks. Everything is OK now.

Tamil Friday, July 2, 2010 4:12:06 PM

smile

Unregistered user Friday, July 9, 2010 9:18:50 AM

damno writes: Is it possible to deactivate the default search completely? In a way that when I type in a word the server name completion will be used instead of google search.

Tamil Friday, July 9, 2010 3:12:03 PM

AFAIK, no.

Gopu krishnangopu007 Thursday, September 30, 2010 3:18:59 PM

how we can change the speed dial in opera5.1

Tamil Thursday, September 30, 2010 3:29:02 PM

Press and hold to edit or clear Speed Dial.

Gopu krishnangopu007 Thursday, September 30, 2010 4:46:17 PM

please explain in
detail.

Tamil Thursday, September 30, 2010 10:12:04 PM

Select Speed Dial then click and hold to edit or clear Speed Dial.

Gopu krishnangopu007 Friday, October 1, 2010 2:14:57 AM

gd mrng.

Tamil Friday, October 1, 2010 2:24:10 AM

Good Morning. coffee

Is it clear now?

Gopu krishnangopu007 Friday, October 1, 2010 2:43:37 AM

no i use opera5 for windows touch screen........

Tamil Friday, October 1, 2010 2:53:06 AM

Please ask in Opera for Windows Mobile forums.

Gopu krishnangopu007 Friday, October 1, 2010 3:45:47 AM

hey tamil what abt YENTHIRAN?

Tamil Friday, October 1, 2010 3:56:39 AM

I rarely see movies.

Unregistered user Sunday, October 17, 2010 2:26:23 AM

Fayez shayeb writes: thank youuuuuu>>>>>>>>

Unregistered user Sunday, October 31, 2010 6:40:03 AM

Jinu Johnson writes: Great work tamil. Is there any way to prevent the google redirection... google.com search strings redirects me to a localized version that is not english.are there any specific strings to prevent this for google in opera? thanks again. rgds, j.j

Tamil Sunday, October 31, 2010 7:19:30 AM

How do you search Google?

Unregistered user Saturday, November 13, 2010 9:55:42 AM

Lockjaw writes: I just thought that the possibility to add one or more sear engines to the speed dial page would please me and some more, since i either search one of the big ones, for info or youtube, for videos. maybe a third for wiki would even be a good idea. anyway. the idea of adding more searches to speed dial seems interesting to me.

Unregistered user Sunday, December 19, 2010 3:01:16 PM

Anonymous writes: thanx bruv

GULAM ELAHI FEROZilahiferoz Saturday, January 15, 2011 2:58:37 PM

in version 5 mobile browser how to keep speed dialing in start up page like google chrome?

Tamil Saturday, January 15, 2011 5:45:25 PM

Sorry, I don't know.

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