Customizable search engines
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@eggcorn Jon did leave Opera over changes in philosophy brought by investors who had gained control of the company. But he left in 2011, and Opera released Opera15 in 2013. My understanding of the main reasons Jon left were that the investors insisted on "increasing profits" by doing less with fewer staff (Jon actually wanted to hire MORE staff to keep the Presto engine competitive, and the Board wanted to cut costs).
@Hadden89 A lot of former Opera developers did join the Vivaldi team - but mostly after Opera let them go. From 2013 to 2016, Opera engaged in a wholesale reduction of staff, some of whom found a home at Vivaldi. Jon did not really "take staff with him." He just formed an alternative community to replace the one (MyOpera) that Opera jettisoned. It was not until Opera slashed features and expressed no will to add them back, after the release of Opera15, that Jon sought to develop Vivaldi.
It's perhaps not that big a deal, but we should try to be clear on the history.
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I had opera when they removed that utility. Maybe they back tracked and reinstated it as others here have mentioned....pal...no backtracking for me, done with opera. -
Any progress?
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How can I remove and edit the search engines on Android?
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@abolog You can't. That's the reason for this feature request. It is supposedly "in progress" meaning we will get it sometime within this year, decade or... century.
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I would like to see this feature, hoping to see some progress
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The desktop browser can already do this, but is it possible to use POST searches instead of GET searches in Android? Doesn't have to be the default, but I'd appreciate it if the option was there. Currently, unless a user has a VPN, all search information will be available to any ISP or person monitoring a network. Of course there are alternate solutions like a VPN or only doing searches through a search engines website (Startpage does POST by default and duckduckgo can do it after a setting change), but it'd still be nice to see it as an official feature.
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Why isnt brave search on the list?
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@anthony155 said in Customizable search engines:
Why isnt brave search on the list?
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@stardepp said in Customizable search engines:
@anthony155 said in Customizable search engines:
Why isnt brave search on the list?
https://search.brave.com/search?q=%sAhem, on android...
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@KumarArnim1 I have never seen this or a screen like it appear in the Android version of Vivaldi, and I spent about an hour last night trying. Are you sure this is actually a thing in Vivaldi for mobile?
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@Viqsi This feature is available natively on Chromium for Android, and as a result, on most Chromium-based browsers such as Chrome, Opera, Brave... except Vivaldi. This means they deliberately removed it for some reason (hopefully a good one)...
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Oh wow, how is adding a custom search engine not a feature yet.
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@WatsinAnem They didn't remove it. The engine part of the browser and the actual browser part of the browser are not the same. it is not built in to the Vivaldi browser yet. Patience.
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It's now sorta-kinda-maybe in, as part of Vivaldi 5.3 on desktop and on mobile. I can't edit search engines directly on my phone yet, but I can edit them in my desktop browser and then they show up in my phone.
So... yay?
