Opera is malware not a browser!

[taq8ojh]

2. Address bar forces me to search from google, bing, yahoo, amazon, or wikipedia (all spyware).

Excuse me, are you really horribly stoned or something? Or are you being hunted by Illuminati?

 

[turgenjev1]

I have used Opera for years, but it bloated nowdays. I don't need a mail and torrent client embedded in my browser.

 

[smakme7757]

Hardcoding Google into parts of the browser isn't really fair game. But with that being said, if the OP is using Windows he has already lost the battle against privacy invading software.

 

[tsupersonic]

Opera is much of a malware as OP is a troll...Seriously every browser has it's quirks. If you don't like them, simply move on. Life is too short to argue over browsers.

 

[N4g4rok]

But I can't make it the DEFAULT. so if I forget to type "d" in front of my query it goes to google. I cannot set the actual DEFAULT to something different.

FYI: The first search engine in your list is your default. Check the settings page to verify. Once your default is set, you don't have to preface your search with the desired shortcut. 's', 'w', or what have you.

 

[N4g4rok]

Chropera has been a disaster so far, but theres some sign of progress.

I don't suppose there's a way they can bring back tab stacking in this chrome-based version?

 

[taltamir]

FYI: The first search engine in your list is your default. Check the settings page to verify. Once your default is set, you don't have to preface your search with the desired shortcut. 's', 'w', or what have you.

In v13+ Opera removed the ability to set the default search engine to something custom, you may only set it to one of the 5 predetermined search engines I listed earlier

Excuse me, are you really horribly stoned or something? Or are you being hunted by Illuminati?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PRISM_(surveillance_program)

 

[tommo123]

i stopped using opera when the company became too arrogant to offer options (google is like this too but in a less annoying fashion), like the tab stacking. a year+ and they still refused to offer an option to disable it.

jumped to chrome. got to say though, that stock v10/11 of opera was better than chrome with a bunch of extensions. sucks now though

 

[HeXen]

Hardcoding Google into parts of the browser isn't really fair game. But with that being said, if the OP is using Windows he has already lost the battle against privacy invading software.

This, never understood why so many privacy nutjobs use Windows...or even get online for that matter. Either way, OP is confused about Malware.
You can call it spyware if wished but technically your cell phone is spyware too... freaking morons.

 

[taltamir]

This, never understood why so many privacy nutjobs use Windows...

aka the "its ok to smoke because there is car exhaust in the air anyways" fallacy.

 

[Morbus]

You know, it's really not that big a deal to type 2-3 letters before each search string. It really is like saying "hello" to someone before you start a business meeting.

I'm sorry but you obviously didn't read what I wrote. It's rather like saying hello at the start of every sentence. It's awesome if you just talk to someone every once in a while, but totally not ok during a conversation.

And I rest easy knowing that my livelihood does not depend on my browsing habits, and that the time taken by the minutiae that you have described is positively dwarfed by other time-consuming aspects of my experience (such as, for example, actually consuming the content I navigate to).

I'm the content creator. It's awesome for you, I know

 

[Mr. Pedantic]

I'm sorry but you obviously didn't read what I wrote. It's rather like saying hello at the start of every sentence. It's awesome if you just talk to someone every once in a while, but totally not ok during a conversation.

Well, lots of people say "erm", or "well", or "yeah, but" before each sentence (before each clause, even). And I know rhetorically it's frowned upon, but people still do it, because it's really not that much of a drag.

I'm the content creator. It's awesome for you, I know

Cool, huh?

 

[Morbus]

Lol, it's not even funny. Whatever dude.

 

[taq8ojh]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PRISM_(surveillance_program)

They're coming!!!

(What that link of yours has to do with Opera is beyond me though)

 

[N4g4rok]

In v13+ Opera removed the ability to set the default search engine to something custom, you may only set it to one of the 5 predetermined search engines I listed earlier

I've changed my default search engine since the latest update. I've got it set to use Wolfram Alpha without any sort of keyword prefacing it. You can add a search engine by right clicking into any search field and selecting the 'Make Search Option' or similar option. From there, i believe the top one in that list becomes the default. When i get back to my workstation tonight, i'll verify my steps and post that process here.

 

[Virgorising]

Excuse me, are you really horribly stoned or something? Or are you being hunted by Illuminati?

:wub:

 

[taltamir]

I've changed my default search engine since the latest update. I've got it set to use Wolfram Alpha without any sort of keyword prefacing it. You can add a search engine by right clicking into any search field and selecting the 'Make Search Option' or similar option. From there, i believe the top one in that list becomes the default. When i get back to my workstation tonight, i'll verify my steps and post that process here.

Please do post such a guide, not only was I unable to do it, but I searched the internet and everywhere I looked people said you can't change it since v13.

 

[HeXen]

Is there any reason why you're dead set on using Opera? I switch around now and then but aside from IE's lack of proper extensions and FF's memory hog, most of them seem about the same for the most part, even Safari.
You should try Chromium, it doesn't have Googles BS, fully open sourced Chrome basically and you have to manually update it but overall is probably the most compatible and fastest browser I ever used, there is Iron browser, supposedly more privacy friendly but really for better privacy you should be using a proxy service of some kind. Using PaleMoon atm. Safari on a Mac is pretty awesome but not so much in Windows.

 

[taltamir]

Is there any reason why you're dead set on using Opera?

Who are you asking?

 

[tommo123]

Is there any reason why you're dead set on using Opera? I switch around now and then but aside from IE's lack of proper extensions and FF's memory hog, most of them seem about the same for the most part, even Safari.
You should try Chromium, it doesn't have Googles BS, fully open sourced Chrome basically and you have to manually update it but overall is probably the most compatible and fastest browser I ever used, there is Iron browser, supposedly more privacy friendly but really for better privacy you should be using a proxy service of some kind. Using PaleMoon atm. Safari on a Mac is pretty awesome but not so much in Windows.

do all chrome extensions work in chromium? (i assume so) and can you copy them over without having to resetup from scratch?

 

[Mr. Pedantic]

do all chrome extensions work in chromium? (i assume so) and can you copy them over without having to resetup from scratch?

I wouldn't guarantee all of them work, but I would guess that a large majority do.

 

[Raduque]

Well, other than the fact that you're super paranoid, Opera is a terrible piece of software, and a terrible company.

 

[jkroeder]

Is there any reason why you're dead set on using Opera? I switch around now and then but aside from IE's lack of proper extensions and FF's memory hog, most of them seem about the same for the most part, even Safari.
You should try Chromium, it doesn't have Googles BS, fully open sourced Chrome basically and you have to manually update it but overall is probably the most compatible and fastest browser I ever used, there is Iron browser, supposedly more privacy friendly but really for better privacy you should be using a proxy service of some kind. Using PaleMoon atm. Safari on a Mac is pretty awesome but not so much in Windows.

No offense but I'm tired of people mentioning Iron. Iron IS Chromium. It's based on Chromium and NO, it's not more privacy friendly. It's the exact same thing except the devs link to their own sites in the browser at every chance they get for ad revenue. It's time more people recognize Iron for what it really is.


But I like your Chromium suggestion. It's nice trying out what is basically the cutting edge release for Chromium based browsers but you might experience the occasional bugs.

 

[HeXen]

do all chrome extensions work in chromium? (i assume so) and can you copy them over without having to resetup from scratch?

I never crossed one that didn't work. Actually Chrome is just Chromium but with Googles tracking, update service, Flash player and I think something else. They might have different beta branches or version naming perhaps but you wouldn't know the difference. I would suggest to look into it a littler further, I'm not well educated in browsers, honestly for the most part they are all very similar to me, especially in performance.

I have a portable app called Chromium updater. I manually run it and it will download the latest version of Chromium for me and you just click to install it over the previous and it will keep all your settings, extensions..etc. just the same as an updater would.

No offense but I'm tired of people mentioning Iron. Iron IS Chromium. It's based on Chromium and NO, it's not more privacy friendly. It's the exact same thing except the devs link to their own sites in the browser at every chance they get for ad revenue. It's time more people recognize Iron for what it really is.


But I like your Chromium suggestion. It's nice trying out what is basically the cutting edge release for Chromium based browsers but you might experience the occasional bugs.

I said "there is Iron browser, supposedly..." Therefore if you read, I did not recommend it because I never used it. I made aware of its existence, whether it is or is not anything isn't for me to say. Research > opinions

 

[ForumMaster]

the main problem is that the company decided to abandon presto (their web engine) and modify the webkit source.

so a lot of opera unique features were lost. they are slowly adding them back, but it's going to take a while. i'm still using 12.16 (latest presto version).

i can customize anything i want. doesn't gobble as much memory as ff/chrome and has plenty of extension (not as much as ff but enough for me).