As Opera 26 final was already released, Opera developer is still on 27, to the latest, update for it brings an interesting change: removes the Bing Search engine and has added DuckDuckGo in its place.
To see this, right click on the address bar and select ‘Edit search engines’, you can notice DuckDuckGo at third position from the top, no change to Google- still, the default search engine-and Yahoo remains in second position.
Update : Opera has implemented this change in Opera 26.
Opera 18 Developer Update adds Search Engine Creation from Search field Right-Click Menu
If you don’t know Yahoo will be the default search engine in Firefox.
What’s your take on this change? Do you miss Bing? Let us know in the comments.
I’m good with them adding DuckDuckGo, but why the hell did they remove Bing from the list? What was the point of that? Google-humping jerks… it’s bad enough they switched to the crappy Chromium codebase… Opera is no longer independent and unique. It’s just a Chrome knockoff.
How’s Firefox these days? That might be the way to go.
@Alex
Opera 26 final saw this change, seems they’re experimenting. Do you like Firefox? Mozilla also added DDG and kept Bing, and made Yahoo has default search in U.S.
Opera continues to limit the options/preferences for the user. I prefer BING and now cannot have it as my default. I also like to “never reload” but now that is also not an option. What is the mentality of limiting the user’s ability to easily customize to their preferences without being able to write their own code? One size does NOT fit all. I’m going back to Firefox and I’ve been using OPERA for many years – just getting very frustrating (or impossible) to do the simple things I once was able to do easily.
I’m a little shocked they removed Bing. There doesn’t seem to be a way to add new search engines in the combo URL list either. You can add Bing in the context search menu but that’s it.
@GadgetPig
Yep, you can add Bing in the Contest search menu, here is how to do that: to add Bing search to context menu, visit opera://settings/searchEngines, under other search engines, click ‘Add new Search’ enter Name as Bing, keyword – b, address as http://www.bing.com/%s and click ‘Save’ button.
How is removing basic functionality supposed to help customers?
I’ve used Opera for a couple of years now, after I jumped ship from Firefox. After this stunt, I’m uninstalling Opera and going with Chrome.
I would like bing as my default search.
And why can’t we all choose our preferred search engine?
John, I’ve written an article how to set bing as default search engine in Opera, check this: https://techdows.com/2014/12/how-to-set-bing-as-default-search-engine-in-opera-26.html
Has that helped you?Let me know.