@Pesala Bless you for pointing out that Tab and Shift+Tab move the selection among the Search box suggestions! I followed the discussions about the bug here for the first few months after it emerged and never saw any mention of using Tab instead. Toggling NumLock simply isn't an option for me as I grew up in the era when 10-key skills were esteemed as highly as WPMs and having to re-learn inputting all Arabic numerals from the top row would definitely be an instance of the cure being worse than the disease. If anyone from the development team reads this, please kindly remember that reports of the death of my cohorts and I from the bowels of of Generation X have been greatly exaggerated. I've actually been contemplating abandoning Vivaldi for another browser lately as this issue continues to get ignored along with others that impact my workflow while developer attention has obviously moved to prioritize the Android release this year. This workaround will keep me around a little longer in the hopes that focus between the desktop and mobile versions will equalize as the latter approaches public release. I'm in your debt for this one, truly.

@cabXavier I kind of agree, it's been a known issue for a long time now. Thing is, the team knows users can search using custom engines directly from the address bar, often easier as well since you don't need to first change engine. So it's probably not high on the fix-list even if it should be. The search field is kind of redundant for most users I think, but I do understand why some would want it there and would use it more if it wasn't broken like it is now.

@iAN-CooG said in Only half of search suggestion is displayed in the search field.: It has been fixed in the 2.6 snapshot. Ok. Thanks for the information.

css: .private .toolbar-addressbar .addressfield, .private .toolbar-addressbar .searchfield { background-color: var(--colorBgIntenser); border-color: var(--colorBorder); color: var(--colorFg); fill: var(--colorFg); } .addressfield .private-window-indicator { background-color: transparent; }

@gaelle What's the status of the investigation? This bug still occurs in Vivaldi 2.7.1628.28. I'd like to come back to Vivaldi, but until this bug is squashed once and for all, I will have to keep using Chrome.

@iAN-CooG It would be like an option in the "Main Page" section of Vivaldi's options. It could be a question that says: When do you open the Main Page, you want to autofocus ...? The search bar, or The address bar

@iAN-CooG You were right. After disabling Num Lock it works. Previously, it worked even with Num Lock on. Thanks for your helpful advice.

@entity said in Behavior of Search-Box when selecting suggestions with keyboard: This is still/again broken. Now arrow keys are ignored if Num-Lock or Caps-Lock is active. Ah so it's due to NumLock being active, I see. I couldn't understand why someone else said Down Arrow worked for selecting engine. At least now I know With NumLock on you can actually press Shift+Down Arrow to get the history and Tab will select. But it should be Arrow keys. And still can't delete entries with keyboard. Also I believe the best would be to have Down Arrow to select history, and Shift+Down Arrow to select engine. Because using search history is usually the most common thing done, while selecting active engine is rarer.

@Darkmatter Yes, would be useful for those using Quick command only.

Yes, just this, it only works "click" on the search engine (open in same tab). I wish there was a "Shift + click" on the search engine icon. to open 'the search' on another tab. I do not know if this is feasible to do in the programming code. thanks.

@pesala Thanks for being able to hide it.

You could also try using Quick Commands, that way you don't even need to look up the shortcut, just type what you want to do.

@brook Thanks very much brook. I missed that.

@rojaviv A quick visit to chrome://settings/searchEngines reveals that the search engines stored by chrome do not match those stored by Vivaldi, so they must be doing something weird (i.e. storing it as an app setting rather than interfacing with chromium's settings). I mention this as I was looking for a way you could quickly copy a single file over, but it doesn't seem that will be possible.