@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

@Gwen-Dragon I am actually going to go to chill with firefox for awhile while they work this out. My hobby is spoken-language learning and I can't work effectively with this search engline selection bs clogging up my information pipeline.

@rseiler search box now works on 2.5 snapshot, including shift-del for removing old searches; Down+enter sends correctly the suggestion to the search engine. On the address bar dropdown tho, shift-del is still not working, only the "X" icon can be used with mouse to delete old typed entries. The 2.4 release could have been delayed some hours and presented publically after including these fixes, but it's not my problem anymore, as I found the 2.5 snapshot announcement even before being able to test 2.4

@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.

@pesala Thanks. I upvoted both requests at your suggestion when you alerted me to them. I also replied to one of them with an optional alternate version of his suggestion.

@saudiqbal Not any time soon - because the license fee for this is pretty high

I dont think this is the best approch. I think it would be better if you just could select the text drag&drop it on the tab bar and it opens a new tab seaching the text in the default search engine. This is how it is done in chrome and firefox and it works like a charm