Redirect localhost to http://localhost, not search "localhost" in search engine
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When typing localhost in address bar, redirect it to http://localhost, rather than search "localhost" in search engine.
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Hello @paperfolding, and welcome to our forums!
For now, you can work around this by bookmarking the localhost page and assigning it the nickname:
localhost(even just the title should work). Hope this helps!
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Hello,
the trick with the bookmark works for me, thanks for that!
but still annoying, that is does not work out of the box
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@mitelg , works fine here, searching in adressbar and in the searchbar. W 10 Home 21H1 64 last build, Vivaldi last stable.
Do you have asigned "l" as alias to a search engine? Try also with another search engine. -
@catweazle I'm on Ubuntu 21.10 and Vivaldi 5.0.2497.38 (current stable)
I have no search with an alias "l". I tried with google and startpage as default search engines.
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@mitelg , also in Whoogle no problems (google engine like Startpage, but faster and FOSS, without ads and other crap).
If you want to addhttps://whoogle.sdf.org/search?q=%sSome other instances see GitHub
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just came across this
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The redirect to a search of localhost instead opening a hostname localhost is a known Vivaldi bug.
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Indeed, typing "localhost" redirects to search engine. As a developer, it's quite annoying. It should be treated as URL: http://localhost. And then, OK, localhost uses the history and redirects to the URL. But then I type localhost/admin and it searches for "localhost/admin" again.
Even "localhost:3000" (with port number) redirects to search engine.
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@brunnopleffken I agree, as a webworker this is annoying and nasty bug.
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Agreed. For anyone doing web dev this is a constant productivity killer. I hope someone in the Vivaldi team will take action on this.
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I checked this workaround:
=> add a / at end of such hostname.localhost/does not provoke a search. -
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@tfp said in Redirect localhost to http://localhost, not search "localhost" in search engine:
No, doesnt work for me neither.
Do you use a hostname:port?
Then you need to add the scheme https:// or http:// at beginning. -
Why not using 127.0.01 instead of localhost, that works for me on my local server.
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Because in all other browsers localhost works, and has worked for many many years, this is expected to work, why cant vivaldi work as expected and instead forces me me work differently?
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@DoctorG said in Redirect localhost to http://localhost, not search "localhost" in search engine:
127.0.01
Hilariously I try 127.0.01:10000/ and it still does a search for "127.0.01:10000/" common guys, this browser is sooo good but now I have to switch back because of this.
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Ah I had to add http:// in front of the IP address.
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I saw in bug tracker work is in progress to fix the issue.
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@pafflick True but if I enter a port number or a path after localhost it doesn't work
