Bing.com taking over my Google searches

[Zunya]

Hi, I've been using Vivaldi for a while, but recently a strange problem appeared.
First of all, here's my search settings:

As you can see, Bing is nowhere to be seen, and Google should be set as default for both Default Search and Private Search.

Now, here's the problem: whenever I type something to search in Vivaldi's address bar, Google's page with the searched text properly opens, and that's cool. Still, if I type something in the search field of the opened Google's page, for some strange reason I get redirected to the Bing result page.

So, for example, if I type "test" in my address bar, https://www.google.com/search?q=test properly opens. But if I type "test" (or any different word) on the search field of the same Google page, https://www.bing.com/search?q=test opens, and that makes no sense to me. It never worked like this before, it used to open the Google result page properly.

I checked with other browsers installed in my computer (Firefox, Chrome and Opera), and they all work fine if I try the same process, so I suppose it's not a host redirect problem or something like that. I've also run a full Avast scan on the computer, but it found nothing and nothing changed.

Could you kindly help me? I love using Vivaldi, but this is turning up to be quite annoying.

[Pathduck]

@Zunya Hello, welcome to the Vivaldi Community

Please have a look at the troubleshooting guide:
https://help.vivaldi.com/article/troubleshooting-issues/

In this case I suspect you have an extension that does this, if triggered by searching directly on the Google page. Try disabling your extensions one by one. It's certainly nothing Vivaldi would do by default.

[Zunya]

Hi Pathduck, thank you for your quick answer.
I tried disabling and re-enabling all the extensions, and it was indeed one extension that was redirecting me to Bing.com (in case it helps someone other user, in my case it was muBlocker, but it seems that's not available for installing anymore).

So, problem solver, thank you very much for your time.

[iAN CooG]

Good you found out that it was a - rather unknown - extension which resulted being malicious, if they even removed it from the store.
Try Vivaldi native ad blocking system and if it's not enough, you can always try uBlock Origin, that is more than enough to block unwanted ads in videos and more.

[sahands]

uBlock or adguard are both good, happy to see you resolved it, may want to run an antivirus scan just to check your computer.