What is Direct Match?
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Let’s find out how Direct Match, a new functionality, helps save time and reach the website of a familiar brand from any of our search fields.
Click here to see the full blog post
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It does feel a little bit ... "Google-y", and I'm against this kind of thing as promotion of some services/sites over others is not net neutral.
But since I love ya, Vivaldi - and it's helping you survive - I'll let this one slide...
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@mossman Servers need to be paid
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Really not a fan of this. I typed in 3 characters (der) and it suggested a random website (dermstore.com) I would have never visited.
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@darren91: I turned it off. I typed in 4 characters (dere) and I have a bookmark which starts with 'dere', it would still suggest dermstore.com.
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@darren91 The suggested domain from Direct Match come from a localized list from Vivaldi, not from sites you visited.
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@Fizh Change the order or disable it Direct match in Settings → Address Bar → Dropdown Menu Priority.
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@DoctorG said in What is Direct Match?:
@Fizh Change the order or disable it Direct match in Settings → Address Bar → Dropdown Menu Priority.
I've probably just missed this if it came up before, but that's a very useful setting!
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The help pages and linked article say that the suggestions come from locally-stored files, but... where are they? What files? If I want to see what's in them or control their contents, how do I do that?
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@sstoneb Perhaps files like ....partner.....json in program's subfolder default-bookmarks contain more information.
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Okay but what if I use YouTube frequently so i expect to go there when i type 'Y' + Enter, but instead it sometimes directs me to yelp.com that i never use?! Can I change what direct match points to?
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@LinLee
Hi and no but you can disable Direct Match in the address bar settings > Drop-Down Menu Priority.Cheers, mib
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@mib2berlin Yeah This I have found, but I see that it supports the devs + this would be the only website I use so frequently so I expect my combination to let me fast into YouTube, so if I could change just this one and leave the rest it'd be preferable
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@LinLee
I guess this is not possible without some developer knowledge.
But there are many ways to get the results you want.
Try to move Direct Match down in the list.
Create a bookmark for YT and a nickname y, this gives:
