Comments on: Change Search Engine in Opera on the Computer

By: Kushal Azza

Kushal Azza — Sun, 27 Nov 2022 13:08:22 +0000

In reply to Macossay. If you search for "browserhow" on Brave search, the search URL will turn into https://search.brave.com/search?q=browserhow&source=web. If you want to turn it into a query string, you should replace the 'browserhow' with '%s' in the URL string. Hence, the query string for Brave search will be https://search.brave.com/search?q=%s&source=web. I hope this explains.

By: Macossay

Macossay — Sat, 26 Nov 2022 19:22:49 +0000

To add the Brave search engine I need to enter the URL and a “query string”. Would someone explain what a query string is and how I determine it? Thanks

By: Billy

Billy — Tue, 17 May 2022 22:34:55 +0000

In reply to art. I'm having the same problem. Would love to make Ecosia my default but it wont let me.

By: art

art — Wed, 17 Nov 2021 11:58:02 +0000

Why can I only add Ecosia as a search engine but not set it as my default ??

By: Kushal Azza

Kushal Azza — Sun, 15 Aug 2021 01:45:42 +0000

In reply to Rory. Hello Rory, I don't know why your Opera browser is behaving such. However, once you change the default search engine from the drop-down, any search queries you make in address omnibar will display the results from the new default search engine. Can you just clear the cache and cookies from your Opera browser, perhaps you can perform a reset? Unfortunately, the default preset search engines are non-editable.

By: Rory

Rory — Sat, 14 Aug 2021 21:53:03 +0000

For some reason the default search engine fails to appear when I open Opera. Although I have changed the default to Duck Duck on the search engine list it has no effect when I open Opera. There is Google bold as brass defying all attempts to replace it.

I really wish Opera had made it possible to edit /remove unwanted search engines.

ANY sugestions or solutions would be much appreciated.