Opera FAQs, Tips, Tricks & Tweaks

Opera 10.60 supports search suggestions and currently it is enabled for Bing and Wikipedia. You can enable for Google by following the steps below.

Google search suggestions

1. Open search.ini file from profile directory in any text editor.
   If there is no search.ini file inside profile directory, delete Google search and create new Google search.

   1. CTRL+F12 > Search
   2. [Select] Google > Edit... > Details >> > Copy address > Cancel
   3. [Select] Google > Delete > Yes
   4. Add... > Enter name, keyword, paste address and enable 'use as default search engine' > OK
2. At the end of Google search engine add the following code and save.

   Suggest Protocol=JSON
   Suggest URL=http://suggestqueries.google.com/complete/search?json&q={SearchTerm}

   After adding the code, it should look like the following.

   [Search Engine X]
   UNIQUEID=XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX
   Name=Google
   Verbtext=0
   URL=http://www.google.com/search?q=%s&sourceid=opera&num=%i&ie=utf-8&oe=utf-8
   Query=
   Key=g
   Is post=0
   UseTLD=0
   Has endseparator=0
   Encoding=iso-8859-15
   Search Type=0
   Position=-1
   Nameid=0
   Deleted=0
   Suggest Protocol=JSON
   Suggest URL=http://suggestqueries.google.com/complete/search?json&q={SearchTerm}

3. Restart Opera.

Opera will show only 3 search suggestions and there is no way to increase it.

[SearchEdit via forums]

Google & BabelFish translation in right click menu

If you don't know how to edit menu setup see this. Add the following under [Document Popup Menu].

Item, "Google Auto Translation"= Go to page, "http://translate.google.com/translate_c?u=%u"
Submenu, BabelFish Translation, BabelFish Translation Menu

Add the following section anywhere in your menu setup and save.

[BabelFish Translation Menu]
Item, Chinese (Simplified) to English = Go to page, "http://babelfish.yahoo.com/translate_url?lp=zh_en&trurl=%u"
Item, Chinese (Traditional) to English = Go to page, "http://babelfish.yahoo.com/translate_url?lp=zt_en&trurl=%u"
Item, Dutch to English = Go to page, "http://babelfish.yahoo.com/translate_url?lp=nl_en&trurl=%u"
Item, French to English = Go to page, "http://babelfish.yahoo.com/translate_url?lp=fr_en&trurl=%u"
Item, German to English = Go to page, "http://babelfish.yahoo.com/translate_url?lp=de_en&trurl=%u"
Item, Greek to English = Go to page, "http://babelfish.yahoo.com/translate_url?lp=el_en&trurl=%u"
Item, Italian to English = Go to page, "http://babelfish.yahoo.com/translate_url?lp=it_en&trurl=%u"
Item, Japanese to English = Go to page, "http://babelfish.yahoo.com/translate_url?lp=ja_en&trurl=%u"
Item, Korean to English = Go to page, "http://babelfish.yahoo.com/translate_url?lp=ko_en&trurl=%u"
Item, Portuguese to English = Go to page, "http://babelfish.yahoo.com/translate_url?lp=pt_en&trurl=%u"
Item, Russian to English = Go to page, "http://babelfish.yahoo.com/translate_url?lp=ru_en&trurl=%u"
Item, Spanish to English = Go to page, "http://babelfish.yahoo.com/translate_url?lp=es_en&trurl=%u"

Opera 9

Tools > Preferences... > Advanced > Search > [SELECT] Google > Edit... > Details>>

Replace address

http://www.google.com/search?q=%s&sourceid=opera&num=%i&ie=utf-8&oe=utf-8

http://www.google.local domain/search?q=%s&sourceid=opera&num=%i&ie=utf-8&oe=utf-8

de for Deutschland
fr for France
co.uk for UK
co.jp for Japan
com.co for Colombia
ca for Canada
com.mx for México
nl for Nederland
com.au for Australia
co.id for Indonesia
com.ar for Argentina
com.br for Brasil
co.nz for New Zealand
co.in for India
pt for Portugal
co.za for South Africa
com.pk for Pakistan
ie for Ireland
com.my for Malaysia
com.sg for Singapore
com.cu for Cuba

Opera 8 & below

Note path to Opera directory by clicking this. Open search.ini from Opera directory & replace

http://www.google.com/search?q=%s&sourceid=opera&num=%i&ie=utf-8&oe=utf-8

http://www.google.local domain/search?q=%s&sourceid=opera&num=%i&ie=utf-8&oe=utf-8

Update: March 25, 2006