Show Selected Search Engine Icon in the Search Field
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Show selected Search engine icon in the Search field.
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yes, this would be nice. Currently, one has to click on the search bar menu to see what is selected. Actually there is a text title inside the search field indicating the current search engine, but it is too dim and hard to read. An icon would be great because it is easy to recognize from a distance.
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YES PLEASE! Even better, I remember Firefox has a switch selector in the past after hitting search. Its annoying having to switch search engines there. Why not let us select the one with the shortcut keyboard that is assigned to the search engine already?
Example, if you have D for duckduckgo and Google is selected, when you put the cursor on the search field and click D, it should automatically switch to that choice.
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I vote for this! Let's make selected search engine more visual.
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Absolutely. I also think search engine should (optionally?) reset to default on new tab. At least for me searching with special engines is one time (one tab) thing.
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+1
The icon of the current search engine in the search bar. -
Show selected Search engine icon in the Search field.
This feature is implemented now in Vivaldi 2.6 Final:[New][Settings][Search Field] Show favicon for active engine VB-2610
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If you have search engines that not display the icon, and later in the day you don't know in what search engine you are, use this code to differentiate those search engines:
input.vivaldi-searchfield.searchfield-input[placeholder="Search IMDB"] {color: #f2c920 !important;}I use Google Feeling Lucky to search IMDB and go straight to the result, so this search don't have an icon. I use the color of the favicon:
