Comments on: Opera Doesn’t Respect Users (aka Lost Vision)?

By: Vijay

Vijay — Sun, 19 Apr 2009 11:04:05 +0000

Hello,

I am using Opera for 1day now.
I have a problem: by accident i erased the google search engine as default search engine.

i was trying to change it from http://www.google.com to http://www.google.nl (CTRL+F12). but there it went wrong, i erased the whole url and now i don’t know what the url is.

for yahoo i see this: http://yahoo.opera.com/search/?q=%s&fr=opera2
for amaozon: http://redir.opera.com/amazon/?q=%s
for wikipedia: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Search?search=%s

can you please tell me the url adres is for http://www.google.nl that i have to put there (CTRL+F12)????

regards,
Vijay

By: Whiners with entitlement issues.

Whiners with entitlement issues. — Thu, 10 Jul 2008 04:17:59 +0000

The post is false. The commenters joining in the Opera bashing are also incorrect.

The default can be changed. Nuff said?

Well, no. This should be pointed out: this post has no respect for businesses that pay for equipment, people, and other resources to give you a fantastic piece of software for free. Much respect, Opera ASA.

By: Christopher

Christopher — Fri, 04 Jul 2008 13:20:51 +0000

Well, i agree with ameo, when i found Opera 9.5 IT WAS GREAT! even know i still liked Safari, but Safari has no taste is coler, but Opera does with it’s different skins, AND NEVER EVER NEVER EVER GET INTERNET EXPLORER, becouse it is horribly bad at security, and other stuff, but Opera 9.5 is the best EVER

So if you want to get the worlds most Fastest, safest, and colerful web browser
Get Opera 9.5

By: The-Doc

The-Doc — Sat, 28 Jun 2008 07:13:06 +0000

Default engine can be changed in the Preference so I don’t understand why you guys are complaining.

By: ameo

ameo — Fri, 27 Jun 2008 20:19:37 +0000

i know what you mean . I’m devoted user to opera just as the rest of others , I’ve tried all other browsers you can imagine and opera was my choice ,
i never used opera mini but i think if opera wanted to set google as it’s main search engine , then it should have at least allowed changing it .
i use google and it’s fine with me as opera choses it
i even use ask.com search in the speed dial [ sometimes web search doesn't really differ ]
but it’s about the principle here

By: Nico Zandberg

Nico Zandberg — Fri, 27 Jun 2008 18:52:57 +0000

you guys are getting confused here. This is only in mini all the othes opera browsers give your freedom. But mini is the only browser that cost the provider money when you use it for free. They even try and save you money. I still don’t understand how you guys can say opera does not listen to their users because of this. And they said users are their number one focus not their only. Nobody on opera’s forum has complaint about this so how would opera know. You trying to mix two subjects that is completely unrelated.

By: ameo

ameo — Fri, 27 Jun 2008 18:02:44 +0000

i didn’t notice that although i have opera mobile installed but i just don’t use it that much as the PC version , but i can say that this issue really made me a bit angry it’s all about freedom and not being enforced to use certain thing !!!

By: FataL

FataL — Thu, 26 Jun 2008 22:57:46 +0000

I fully agree with your post.
If person don’t like Google, he will never use it, even if Google is still on first position in search engines list.
That just adds some inconvinience to a end user, that’s it, i.e. not completly friendly.

By: Daniel C

Daniel C — Thu, 26 Jun 2008 21:37:37 +0000

Well, I don’t know about Opera Mobile, but on Opera desktop, you can change your default search engine.

Just click Tools, then click Preferences, click the Search tab (you can also add or delete engines from this tab), click on the engine you want to make your default, click Edit, then click Details, then check off the Use as default search engine box.

By: Nico Zandberg

Nico Zandberg — Thu, 26 Jun 2008 20:18:24 +0000

Just another tip opera mini does set the last used search engine as the default on the start page and keeps it as default untill you close mini. So you can in fact have a different search site as default. And if your phone can minimize you never have to close mini and thus your selected default would remain. Google is only default at startup. ;)