@Kuroodo said in Broken search in address bar:
Vivaldi's address bar is probably the worst address bar I have ever experienced on any browser. It's riddled with issues and bugs.
The last problem you pointed out can be fixed by disabling typed history for the address bar in your settings I think. You should also be able to press space, backspace, or delete to cancel the suggestion
Yeah they really screwed it up over the last year or two.
I have my main copy set to only try to autocomplete "typed history" now, and it still puts all sorts of random pages apparently cherry-picked out of browser history into the "completion dropdown" (which I had NEVER TYPED) and worse - FORCES me to open that page and literally BLOCKS me from typing the plain domain one I was trying to type.
And the WORST part is that it REMOVED all my REAL typed history when they added this "improved" functionality, and all I've got left is those gigantically long URLs cherry-picked from history that the only solution is click the "X" to delete each one when it appears so it doesn't block me from what I'm trying to view.
They have apparently turned it into that overcomplicated disaster primarily because they are trying to use it as a revenue generation vehicle with revenue-generating so-called "direct match" URLs, in the process literally working against their users.