Turn off "Best Result" autocomplete, either per-site or globally
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yup this change to the default settings is not good it has not given me the right adress a single time. Even on the occassion when it guesses the correct site its the wrong page on that site. Searching goes from: type search, enter, pick result to this -> type search, enter, confusion why am i on this unrelated site did i do do something wrong, re type search, enter, da fuq same thing?, oh yeh the search change, facepalm, type search, down twice, enter, pick result ->angry
okey stereog led me to the place where it can be solved as the adress auto complete setting doesnt seem to do anything but beneath it is the drop down meny priority list
settings - adress - bar - drop down priority and remove autocomplete best(shittiest) result and rearrange the other stuff to your liking in my case "search" at the top
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Appreciate the option to disable! I've had to manually type "squarespace.com" every single day because I once visited "squaremuse.com" for a tech question and Vivaldi decided that it was the best result forevermore. I was very glad to find this thread and that option.
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Oh hey, look where I landed while Googling for solutions to this irritating problem.
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@5eagull Not offering a solution but having tried a number of browsers over the years, Firefox's autocomplete is way superior to alternatives (though I don't use Firefox anymore for various reasons, so who knows whether they've broken it in the meantime).
With Vivaldi at the moment I quite often end up using F2 instead of trying to retrieve a previously visited url. But this is the same with Opera too, which was my previous default.
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I wish I could just tell it to not match a particular bookmark. Or at least prioritise those with similar text using weight numbers.
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Playing with the priority listing on some pages that were just never working has me speculating what is going on.
It kinda behaves like each url is only allowed to be in one category, and there's a separate priority list for which category it'll be in, that doesn't change when you adjust the visible order. So for example if I type a bookmark to visit it, it's would qualify for Bookmarks, Browser History, Frequently Visited Pages, Typed History. But in practice it seems to only act like it's in Bookmarks. So if I have Browser History listed as a priority above Bookmarks, the url won't be in Browser History and it'll dig up a page I visited once, a month ago, instead.
The best I've managed to get from it is with the priorities checked as:
- Autocomplete Best Result (must be on or it won't autocomplete)
- Search / Go To
- Typed History
- Bookmarks
- Browser History
- Vivaldi Pages
The problem this leaves is that frequency is not used by any of these categories, so if I send a specific page URL to Vivaldi (eg. because I copied a twitter link in Slack) then that url replaces the base twitter.com/ as the highest "typed history" result. But typing twitter.com/ once then puts it back, whereas with Frequently Visited enabled, it'll just entirely refuse to autocomplete to certain pages I visit multiple times a day. Which in turn I'm guessing is because, even though it's the url that I always go to, I spend longer on the next page. For example, I go to twitch, spend 10 seconds on the directory page, then 4 hours on a streamer's page, and that streamer becomes the top Frequently Visited.
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Yeah, what is going on here? I have search and address bar combined, and when I search for things now, half the time Vivaldi tries to guess what I want and takes me to a bookmark or history. I don't ever want this functionality. I already have all the autosuggest stuff disabled in settings. Is there a flag somewhere to disable this completely?
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OK, as soon as I posted this, I found a solution:
- Go to settings, Address Bar, Drop-Down Menu.
- Check 'Show Drop-Down when Typing.'
- Uncheck everything under this: "Show Search Queries when Typing" and then everything under "Drop-Down Menu Priority."
- Then, uncheck "Show Drop-Down when Typing."
In my case, the problem was that I was hiding all auto-suggestions, but even though this information was hidden, it was still active. You might not even need to do everything listed above—simply unchecking 'Autocomplete Best Result' might be enough.
