Remco Lanting

Single word search in the Opera address bar

Tuesday, 24. February 2009, 17:31:58

address bar, opera, opera:config, search, web lookup

Instead of doing "g testing" some people prefer it without the "g" (or any other search shortcut). Here's how to get that to work:

Go to opera:config#network
Disable "Check Local HostName"
Disable "Enable HostName Expansion"
Enable "Enable HostName Web Lookup"
Put the search url (you can find ready to go ones in the search preferences) into "HostName Web Lookup Address"
Press save under the section and you're done!

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Comments

jumbo # 22. April 2009, 21:11

Thanks for guidance!

turus # 27. May 2009, 01:29

useful

doctor82 # 19. July 2009, 09:38

Is there any way to prevent opendns from hijacking the single word searches in opera. I don't want to use opendns as default as it uses yahoo engine.

Micky # 22. July 2009, 14:12

Most of two character searches works fine with this method but i found one that doesn't, with 'go' i get:

"Error! You tried to access the address http://go/, which is currently unavailable..."

And 'go' is not one of my search keywords, even those are reachable.

Can someone confirm? Bug?

jumbo # 23. July 2009, 22:05

My Opera (10b2,1643) do the same - "go" goes to error page. The same I have for "goo", "co", "ce". It doesnt matter if it is search key word - for some keywords Opera search, for some not (maybe some reserved words...)

But I dont mind this "bug"