I want to disable searching results on adress bar
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if I don't want specific adresses in my (adressbar)history, I switch to a guest window (or alternatively to a private window); both leave no entries to your "main" profile
I think, that's the only solution at this time
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@derday said in I want to disable searching results on adress bar:
if I don't want specific adresses in my (adressbar)history, I switch to a guest window (or alternatively to a private window); both leave no entries to your "main" profile
I think, that's the only solution at this timeI think, you don't get it.
@legobuilder26 said in I want to disable searching results on adress bar:
Edit: sorry, it is supposed to do that but it appears there is a bug.
Yep. I have this since I remember. This was always annoying and there is no way to disable it. Vivaldi is adding nice features, but than is forcing users to use it in one, very annoying and uncomfortable way, so those features are not usable at all. I think there is no chance for good cooperation with Vivaldi Overlords, because they are thinking about better callendar only.
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@firlej You can disable that in Settings > Privacy > Show Typed History:
In Address Field
Ustawienia > Prywatność > Pokaż historię wpisywanych adresów:
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@pafflick Sorry, man, but this is not a solution. I don't want to disable all typed adresses from adress bar, just don't want those results of searching by right click on marked text.
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@firlej The typed addresses are still available in the Address Field as "Browser History" entries, even if you disable the Typed History in the Address Field.
By default, the browser is set to remember your browsing history. If you want to keep your history entries selectively, then you either have to remove those history entries manually or use a Private Window for things that you don't want the browser to remember.
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@pafflick said in I want to disable searching results on adress bar:
@firlej The typed addresses are still available in the Address Field as "Browser History" entries, even if you disable the Typed History in the Address Field.
No, they aren't.
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Man, you can't help and you know it. You know, that Vivaldi has poor customization in this case. So, please, don't tell me all those ludicrous hints(using a private window for simple searching marked text is your best), because it sounds so stupid. -
@firlej said in I want to disable searching results on adress bar:
No, they aren't.
They show up once you start typing, as the "Browser History" entries:
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@pafflick said in I want to disable searching results on adress bar:
They show up once you start typing, as the "Browser History" entries
If you read more than a topic, you'll get my point. I was not talking about all results, but only those of searching, when you mark a text, than right click and choose "search". I think no sane man could ever ask for this "feature" and there is no way to disable it with not disabling every results at all.
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@firlej said in I want to disable searching results on adress bar:
I think no sane man could ever ask for this "feature" and there is no way to disable it with not disabling every results at all.
That's because the searches are part of the typed history. That command opens a new tab and searches for selected text using the search engine chosen from the context menu. It is part of your browsing history and therefore is saved as such. If we changed it to not remember the searches, people would start to complain about their browsing history not being saved.
By default, if you search for something in the main session, it is saved in the history, and that's the behaviour expected by most users. If they don't want their history to be saved, they can clear it, or use a private/guest window, to get rid of it automatically.
AFAIK, you're the first person to complain about the default behaviour, but if you strongly believe that what you ask for is demanded by many, then make a request for it, and let people decide if they support your idea - perhaps it will be added at some point. For now, you have been given every available option that there is.
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@pafflick said in I want to disable searching results on adress bar:
That's because the searches are part of the typed history. That command opens a new tab and searches for selected text using the search engine chosen from the context menu. It is part of your browsing history
It is nonsense, because I didn't write it in the adress bar. Adress bar is for adresses, not for searching history, the more that I don't even use adress bar as a searching window. Searching history should be in the history section. There is no single reason, and no sense in forcing user to have it in the adress bar. So do what you want, but now I know, that you not "just getting started". It is over like new Opera, when browser owners are forcing users to their crazy solutions with no opportunity.
In adress bar I want only have typed adresses, which sometimes I need to use, but don't need and don't want to save as a bookmark or in the speed dial. Why do you have so problem with it? Why can't I just use it in the way I want to?
I suppose, you guys from Vivaldi team just love to use adress bar as a searching field, so you force users like me, to have searching results there, even if I am using only quick commands for searching. I completely understand that, but why did you choose to be a browser maker than? If I just want to create a tool only for my purposes, I don't try to make a global app.
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@firlej As I said, it was designed that way, and I merely explained how the feature works. I'm not arguing whether you think it's "sane" or "nonsense" - it's just your opinion.
We try to provide as much flexibility as possible with the resources that we have. Obviously, we can't do everything at once - and taking user feedback into account is one way of deciding which feature should we work on next.
That being said, you can make a request to change the behaviour of the context menu search, and perhaps it will be considered. But until then, I don't think that anyone will find the time to rewrite the functionality that just one person complained about. Building a browser is not a one-day job - it's work-in-progress (like any other software which is being developed - from small apps to whole operating systems), and the development takes time. This is just how things work. -
Searches polluting Vivaldi's typed history greatly annoys me as well. I want the typed history to consist of the websites that I typed, including neither selected-text-context-menu searches nor searches using keywords. My workaround for the context menu is not using Vivaldi's context menu searches at all; instead I use an extension/mod I wrote that adds the search engines I want to the context menu. This also has the added benefit that I don't need to bother with submenus. As for the keyword searches, I disabled search in address field and now use the separate search field exclusively. (My other motivation for doing that was this issue.) If I use the default search engine, there is no problem, but, frustratingly, if I use a search engine keyword, the search still gets saved to the typed history. But there is a tedious way to avoid that: I type the keyword and a space, then delete them, then type my search query and press enter. Then, and only then, I can prevent the search query from being added to the typed history, and have it saved to the search field history instead.
It is irritating that I need to go such extreme lengths to keep typed website history and search history separate; but having them tangled was even more annoying, so this is what I do now. But I still have thousands of such searches in my typed history and I couldn't find an easy way to delete them. I tried deleting them one by one, e.g. typing "g " in the address bar and deleting all typed history results by clicking the 'x' or Shift+Del, but it's clear that it would take many, many hours, probably days to clean them this way. I can try living with them; but now that I disabled search in address field, they become even more annoying due to another Vivaldi bug (I don't bother reporting it since I have no hope of such a niche bug being fixed), so I will need to clear them, but I'm not sure how.
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@pafflick As per suggested I made a request here: https://forum.vivaldi.net/post/547994
I think the OP is frustrated because this annoying behavior is driving people nuts overtime... cuz it really doesn't make sense to cramp search history into typed history (it feel almost like a bug), for this behavior make it very difficult to find typed history amongst a bunch of search history entries which polluted the list.
This is like Microsoft vs Apple design philosophies, where technically MS OS is superior but it's GUI & UX are unintuitive & unfriendly to most non tech user. Vivaldi might be a geeky browser for tech competent user, but there is no reason to made the Addressfield dropdown list so convoluted & frustrating to navigate.
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I recently returned to Vivaldi after trying some other browsers and find the current address field behavior unbearable. I came here looking for answers and found this old discussion. It seems relevant to my issue so here goes...
IMO, the address field should be solely for entering a URL. An option for offering typed history matches would be ok provided you could select from the list (no automatic population of the address field unless a history address is selected). Searching from the address field should not happen. I recall that being the case considering I have a separate search field in my toolbar. An option to disable searching from the address field would be OK.
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@Peobody It's been three years. Have you looked in Settings > Address Bar?
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@Peobody Address Bar Settings and turn off what you dont want and Reorder the things you do they will appear in the same order they are listed if they are toggled on
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@Pathduck said in I want to disable searching results on adress bar:
@Peobody It's been three years. Have you looked in Settings > Address Bar?
Stale discussions Can still Be Relevant sometimes when you type your issue it auto suggests old threads to post your issue in instead of making a new one
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@mikeyb2001 Sure - I'm just saying a lot of stuff can change in three years and maybe it's a good idea to check Settings once in a while, you know, just in case the feature is already there
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@mikeyb2001, Thanks for the response. I had looked in the Address Bar settings for an option to disable searching but didn't find one. Your post prompted me to did deeper, discovering that disabling the drop-down menu stopped the searching. I will try selectively enabling/disabling those options until I find a combination that fits my sensibilities.
