Opera 11.60 screwed up searching with the address bar! Bookmarks belong at the top!

I just updated to opera 11.60 and two things regarding the address bar really bothered me:

1) the little down arrow on the right site which opened the last browsed sites has been gone. This can be fixed in about:config, search for "Show Dropdown Button In Addressfield"

2) The search algorithm for bookmarks and history is screwed up!!! in 11.5X the order of the results was Bookmarks, then History. Now it is mixed. This leads to a result where I get thousand not relevant results and at the bottom there are my bookmarks. What does opera think? I bookmarked these sites because I do not want to find them??? Bookmarks belong at the top _before_ the history results.

Is there any way to fix this behavior? I could not find anything. Or is it just me having this problem?

@opera-team: Please fix this or at least provide a user setting which displays the bookmarks first.

Yep, there seems to be some problems with the address bar. Again. 11.60 doesn't show the typed in searches in the dropdown. I have bookmarks, history and suggestions disabled, so it should just display those I have typed in.

I second this. Bookmarks are more important than history.

I've managed to disable the implicit google search suggestions which forced the found bookmarks to appear at the bottom. It can be done by unchecking the Addressbar Content Search option at opera:config page.

However I've couldn't managed to make the search engine history work again. For example when I insert "g opera download" to address field and hit enter, than I insert "g opera", nothing appears from history. Other search engines (than google) are affected as well. This also started to not work in Opera 11.60.

Originally posted by clearmartin:

I've managed to disable the implicit google search suggestions which forced the found bookmarks to appear at the bottom. It can be done by unchecking the Addressbar Content Search option at opera:config page.

I unchecked it but I'm still getting search suggestions below what I'm typing. MY BOOKMARKS ARE BURRIED UNDERNEATH.

How do I get rid of this nonsense?

Why is Opera ramming this down our throats?

My suggestion from last year seems even more valid today:

http://my.opera.com/community/forums/topic.dml?id=720742&t=1323358063&page=1

Originally posted by markmd:

Originally posted by clearmartin:

I've managed to disable the implicit google search suggestions which forced the found bookmarks to appear at the bottom. It can be done by unchecking the Addressbar Content Search option at opera:config page.

I unchecked it but I'm still getting search suggestions below what I'm typing. MY BOOKMARKS ARE BURRIED UNDERNEATH.

How do I get rid of this nonsense?

I now realize, that the chrome-like google search suggestions are gone when unchecked the option mentioned above but the history suggestions are still there so bookmark suggestions are under them. There is one very ugly solution. Set nickname to your bookmark which you want to find in address bar. If you set nickname e.g. "my page", then after you type "my page" to address bar, you will get focus to your bookmark under history suggestions so you can just press enter and your page is opened. But who wants to set an additional nickname to all bookmarks...

So far I realy don't know how to resolve this strange address bar behaviour. Opera just lost one of many advantages over Chrome.

Please fix this, bookmarks should be always visible when typing in the address bar.

They are working on it for Opera Next.

Updated to 11.62 and bookmarks are not only still at the bottom, but hidden under "Show # more". Another vote for putting bookmarks first!

And one more.
Anything new about this ?

Originally posted by chuneau:

Anything new about this ?

See for yourself, and participate in testing for Opera Next. Install to a new folder, and use concurrently with your current version of Opera. Its not stable, so do not rely on it for important work.

Originally posted by kvarkki:

Yep, there seem to be some problems with the address bar. Again. 11.60 doesn't show the typed in searches in the dropdown.

That has been infuriating me for some weeks now. There are times when I use the same custom search several times during the course of a week. This week it has been "k dry noodles" which searches the wiki for the web game Kingdom of Loathing. I used to be able to type "k d" and it would autocomplete the rest, but several updates ago that function suddenly vanished. Does anyone know of a way to get it back?

So it should come as no surprise that bookmarks and typed searches are of equal value to me when typing in the address bar, but I agree that typed URLs should be at the bottom. Now that I think about it, since the sites I access really often are either on my bookmarks bar or speed dial, I don't actually use the address bar all that often except for searches – which is why I currently have 35 custom searches (and deleted most of the useless included ones).

EDIT: I should mention that autocompletion of URLs works just fine. Is it only the autocompletion of searches that no longer functions.

Speaking of features getting removed: why is the search bar still on by default since you can do the same thing in the address bar? I've never been a fan of wasting space on redundancy. Every time I do a new install of Opera (as I did with Opera Next a few minutes ago) I have to remove the address bar to make room for the zoom, Show Images, and Author Mode dropdowns.

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After typing all of that, I suddenly noticed that you said that typed searches weren't appearing in the dropdown but I was annoyed by typed searches no longer autocompleting in the address bar. So I hope you don't mind me diverging slightly.