a fix for opera 9.2 search engine ordering

opera 9.2 reads the search engine file (search.ini) from a new place

because of that it added about 8 new search engines to the top of the search engine list. in linux you can fix it like this -

Code:

locate search.ini

this is the output i got -

Code:

/home/iceni60/.opera/search.ini
/home/iceni60/.opera/search.ini.bak
/usr/share/opera/locale/en/search.ini
/usr/share/opera/search.ini

all you have to do is put this file - /home/iceni60/.opera/search.ini
here -
/usr/share/opera/search.ini

i think the same thing works for windows too - you have to move your old search.ini file to the new place it's read from.

 

I did not get the windows part!

 

what do you mean? you don't have the problem, or you don't understand how to fix it, or maybe you don't know what i'm talking about altogether? lol.

in case you mean the windows fix, i think opera uses two places to store it's files - C:\Program Files <---- that's the place each user keeps their own settings, and -
C:\Documents and Settings\username\Application Data\Opera <--- i think that's where the global settings for all users is kept.

so, if after updating to opera 9.2 you found extra search engines you don't want, i think this is how to fix it (i haven't tried it out though because i don't have windows atm)

copy search.ini from the 'program files' folder to C:\Documents and Settings\username\Application Data\Opera\profile\search.ini i'm not totally sure that's the correct path.

EDIT do it while opera is closed!

 

Hi Iceni! I think there is no need for backup of any files/ folders from Program Files.I have made a backup copy of my serach.ini file in Opera 9.1.

It,s here-- C:\Documents and Settings\UserName\Application Data\Opera\Opera\profile\search.ini

So what if I install version 9.2.

Infact I havebackup of 7 files from my Profile folder.

cookies4
notes.adr
opera6.ini
opera6.adr
override.ini
wand
search.ini

and two folders from Profile

toolbar
skin

Whenever I install a new version I do a clean install and then just copy all these files n folders in profile, this way I get al my settings etc back within no time. So I am not sure when I install version 9.2 what should I do.

 

i just looked it up and here's the thread about it at the opera forums -
http://my.opera.com/community/forums/topic.dml?id=184837

as long as you have a copy of the search.ini file you have now you won't have a problem. when i updated to 9.2 it didn't touch my search.ini file, what it did do is stop using it and start using one from somewhere else; it made a new search.ini with all my custom search engines but added 8/9 new ones at the top! - google, yahoo, answers etc, my new default search engine was google

all i did was over-write the search.ini opera had decided to use with my original search.ini file. so, if when you update to 9.2, and you have customised your search engines, your search engines have had some engines added that you don't want, find which directory it's reading it from and replace it with your current search.ini

does that all make sense?

 

Thanks, that,s Ok.
U mean by default it will just add some more engines to my custom serach engines and will change the default one to google, nothing else. Am I right?
BTW what si ur default one( I use Scandoo google).

 

yeap that's right, maybe if you haven't changed the default engines you won't notice anything. it changes the default engine, and it also changes the next 8 or so too, so your normal search engines start at about the 9th option.

i use scroogle as my default engine
http://www.scroogle.org/cgi-bin/scraper.htm
http://www.scroogle.org/

 

Thanks. I will take care when I upgrade.
BTW how can I add Wikipedia search like in FF to the deafult list.

 

like i said - if you haven't added any new search engines you might not see any difference when you upgrade.

you can add a search engine like this -
1, go to Wikipedia
2, right-click in the search box and select Create search...
3, pick a key word (or letter, e.g. w)

before the 9 versions you had to edit the search.ini by hand to add new SEs, and you still do if you want to move the search engines to the order you want.

if you want to customise your search engines in the search.ini file you only need to remember these things -
1, make sure the SEs are in the correct order, the first being [Search Engine 1], the second is [Search Engine 2]
2, if you want to use separators to group your search engines then this line with the value of 1 means there is a separator
Has endseparator=-1
0 means no separator
Has endseparator=0

here's a screenshot showing how grouped searches can look. it's from an old search.ini i had, i don't use the ubuntu search engines now. if opera made it quicker to edit the list i'd do it, but as it is i'll have to go through most of the search engines and give them a new number. i could just delete them i suppose

 

Thanks I added wikipedia and dictionary.com.
Just last Q, can I add a translation tool here too.

Thanks

 

i'm not sure about a search engine, but if you install the Web Developer Toolbar & Menu for Opera that's got one in the right-click menu along with loads of other stuff like bugmenot, google cache, make a tinyurl. if you don't like it you can change it back in the toolbar option in preferences.
http://operawiki.info/WebDevToolbar/

there's a bookmarklet for google translate too at the bottom of this page
http://www.squarefree.com/bookmarklets/misc.html

drag it straight up to a toolbar, then click it on a page you want to translate. if you don't want it you can right-click on it and delete it. the page you use it on needs javascript enabled, i'm not sure if the WebDevToolbar needs it too.

there's a userjs too on this page -
http://my.opera.com/Lex1/blog/index.dml/tag/userjs

here's how to install it -
http://userjs.org/help/installation

 

Thanks a lot for the help.

 

here's how to put Google & BabelFish in the right-click options -
http://my.opera.com/Tamil/blog/google-babelfish-translation

 

Thanks iceni!