Duplicated search engines and address bar search not working
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@NightWolf967 I've had a look at the Web Data file you sent, I see nothing out of the ordinary, except it contains only one search engine (Google). When placed into a Vivaldi profile, it automatically adds Bing and DDG on launch and seems to work fine. If I do a "Reset to defaults" it restores the standard search engines as expected.
Hmm, I wonder if Sync is somehow messing things up. Have you re-enabled Sync? Try to do the "Reset Remote Data" procedure. It won't hurt your local install, it just deletes any data on the V servers and then you can sync back your local data.
Otherwise it might seem your profile is "corrupt" beyond repair for some reason. You might have to start over with a clean profile to fix this for good.
Another thing to try - but this will reset a lot of Vivaldi settings (but you won't lose Bookmarks/Logins etc):
Close Vivaldi as usual, then delete the full folder:
Local App Settings
in your profile folder.Possibly leftovers from the old version is still left there and messing up in 5.3.
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@Pathduck said in Duplicated search engines and address bar search not working:
@NightWolf967 I've had a look at the Web Data file you sent, I see nothing out of the ordinary, except it contains only one search engine (Google). When placed into a Vivaldi profile, it automatically adds Bing and DDG on launch and seems to work fine. If I do a "Reset to defaults" it restores the standard search engines as expected.
Hmm, I wonder if Sync is somehow messing things up. Have you re-enabled Sync? Try to do the "Reset Remote Data" procedure. It won't hurt your local install, it just deletes any data on the V servers and then you can sync back your local data.
Otherwise it might seem your profile is "corrupt" beyond repair for some reason. You might have to start over with a clean profile to fix this for good.
Another thing to try - but this will reset a lot of Vivaldi settings (but you won't lose Bookmarks/Logins etc):
Close Vivaldi as usual, then delete the full folder:
Local App Settings
in your profile folder.Possibly leftovers from the old version is still left there and messing up in 5.3.
Unfortunately nothing of that worked :(. I will try a clean install to see if I have any success and will let you know.
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@Pathduck Hey, so doing a clean install seems to have fixed the problem. I didn't have that problem again since I did it and I'm using only one search engine just like before. I guess you were right about the leftovers from older versions, since I had been just updating the browser for quite some time.
Also thank you very much for all your time and your help, I only thought about doing a clean install because of what you said about the leftovers. -
Sorry to unearth such an old thread but it's been happening to me since updating to v6.6
The way it happens for me is if I use incognito mode and then try to search something with a non-incognito window after having closed the incognito window.
I also found a way I can fix it without deleting any data. ! When I open any webpage by typing its full domain name, let the browser load the page and then select and right click on any text and select "Search DuckDuckGo" (or whatever your default search engine is) the browser snaps out of it and everything is back to normal
I can replicate both the trigger and the fix 100% of the times.
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@oriba81 Thank you! I've been fighting with this for a day after doing a fresh install of Vivaldi, import passwords/user profile on a new Windows 11 laptop. I discovered that you merely need to Hover over "Search With" to popup the search engine choices and THAT fixes the issue. Address bar searching works again and Search settings is back to normal. This is a valid bug, @Pathduck - let me know what you need from me to track down root cause
Broken: Settings -> Search:
"Fix" is to select text in a web page, right-click and only hover over "Search with..." to popup the search engine choices
Settings -> Search is now fixed!
Vivaldi: 7.0.3495.10 (Stable channel) (64-bit)
Revision: 46177f82db4977c295fe8a3bdecb6a552df0838d
OS: Windows 11 Version 23H2 (Build 22631.4317)
JavaScript: V8 13.0.245.18 -
Update: I've got a good way to reproduce and workaround the issue.
The workaround only needs some text to be highlighted and right click menu to be brought up. You can highlight text either in the page, or in the address bar.
The issue only presents itself when first launching Vivaldi. If you do the workaround fix then additional vivaldi windows will work as expected.
If I close all the vivaldi windows, then open a new one the problem will resurface.
The conditions I've tried and all present the error:
- disabling all extensions
- using in private mode
- setting startup page to be
about:blank - rightclicking without selecting text
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@yamlCase
Hi, I always close all windows and never get duplicated or messed up search engines.
Any extensions may involved? DDG make problems and many others in the past.
Disable all extensions and restart Vivaldi for a test. -
@mib2berlin yes, I get the same behavior when disabling all extensions. This is a fresh install of vivaldi on a fresh install of Windows 11
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@yamlCase
Hi, I am sorry but I have no idea why it doesn't work for you.
I have 12 Vivaldi installs, some are synced some not, I got duplicates sometimes, 3 times Google or something but never this. -
You get duplicates sometimes after updates if you've messed with the default search engines, because these are auto-populated and updated.
The default ones are shown in:
chrome://settings/searchEnginesIf you don't like one of the defaults, just change its keyword. Do NOT delete it, it will just come back and you'll have duplicates.
For instance I have
biset to Bing andyaset for Yahoo because I have other engines set forbandy.To reproduce a step-by-step guide is needed, from starting in a completely clean profile. Best way to do that is start from a Standalone install, then figure out the exact steps to get the issue reproduced.
A "fresh install" isn't necessarily a "fresh profile" if you've kept your profile.
