Comments on: Another way to search the web using Opera

By: Daniel Goldman

Daniel Goldman — Wed, 18 Apr 2007 14:33:55 +0000

Ashen, the address bar is most likely there, however you probably removed the URL field from the address bar.

Here’s the solution:
1) Go to View > Toolbars > Customize
2) If the “Address bar” is not selected, select it. However if it is selected, unselect it, then reselect it (this will make sure that step 4 is restoring the defaults to the correct toolbar).
3) Click on the “Buttons” tab
4) In the “Category” section, make sure that “Defaults” is selected. Click on the “Reset toolbar to its defaults” button on the bottom.

Hope this helps.

By: Ashen

Ashen — Tue, 17 Apr 2007 21:20:46 +0000

my adress bar has gone since i made the update.. even trough i do ctrl+F8.. it doesnt change anything…
Do someone know how to fix it?? thx

By: Rhonnysparks

Rhonnysparks — Sun, 01 Apr 2007 07:56:25 +0000

Borg explained how to enable it for single words in the desktop team blog

In case your too lazy to click that you need to enable this:

opera:config#Network|EnableHostNameWebLookup

and then put http://www.google.com/search?q=%s (if you want the default google search) in here:

opera:config#Network|HostNameWebLookupAddress

don’t forget to click save

By: Daniel Goldman

Daniel Goldman — Sun, 01 Apr 2007 01:58:50 +0000

Jadd, that’s a good point. If you disable the automatic server name completion (www. and .com), the browser should perform the search, rather than show the error page.

By: Daniel Goldman

Daniel Goldman — Sun, 01 Apr 2007 01:56:16 +0000

Øyvind Ø, yes - you could add your custom search to Speed Dial too.

By: Steve Barker

Steve Barker — Sat, 31 Mar 2007 17:05:42 +0000

I have Opera 9.1 for Linux. When typing in the address bar, if I type words which are not previously in the “Typed In Address” menu below the address bar, the “Typed In Address” menu automatically comes up “g” plus whatever I am typing. If I drop down to the drop down menu I get the google search.

I have just looked at my Mac and 9.1 for Mac does this too.

By: Jadd

Jadd — Sat, 31 Mar 2007 10:37:30 +0000

It would be nice if ” searchterm” (without quotes obviously), would search with my default search engine, instead of trying to look up http://searchterm/ , then http://www.searchterm.com . The criteria for deciding to use default search engine should then be:If the searchterm(s) start with a spaceIf the searchterms are multiple words

By: Øyvind Ø

Øyvind Ø — Sat, 31 Mar 2007 08:16:09 +0000

You forgot the search on the Speed Dial page. BTW, is it meant to be possible to add your own search engines there too? By now I have only been able to change it to Opera Search, Translation, Encyclopedia and so on. - ØØ -

By: Jose

Jose — Sat, 31 Mar 2007 00:34:08 +0000

Hooray!

That error message has been my biggest frustration using Opera.

By: Ryan

Ryan — Fri, 30 Mar 2007 23:57:03 +0000

“Those are some nice new features.”

But most of them have been there since version 7.

By: David Naylor

David Naylor — Fri, 30 Mar 2007 21:49:53 +0000

Those are some nice new features.

By: James Cassell

James Cassell — Fri, 30 Mar 2007 20:32:30 +0000

I’m glad they finally added the ability to search without typing the ‘g’. I often forget, and have to re-type my query.

By: Eddie

Eddie — Fri, 30 Mar 2007 20:19:25 +0000

I forget the ‘g’ all the time, and most often when I have a nice long query in the address bar. This is very welcome indeed.

By: Bo

Bo — Fri, 30 Mar 2007 19:22:36 +0000

The second method is sweet. But I doubt I’ll make any intentional difference between entering one or two terms.

I think I’ll end up with entering “g ” all the time because this works for all terms.

But it can help in case I forget to enter the “g ” (which happens sometimes).

By: Mathias

Mathias — Fri, 30 Mar 2007 19:18:30 +0000

Nice… That’s why we love Opera