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Vivaldi Address Bar Auto Complete Issue: How to Solve

Vivaldi is my new lovable web browser. But it's a quite new and hence some issues are there, while it's being very customized you can tackle the situation easily. 

For the uninitiated readers, Vivaldi Browser was planned by ex-Opera employee and is intended to fill the gap between Opera v12 and Opera v15+. It runs on Blink/Chromium engine - which also runs Chrome and Opera latest. 

Opera is still doing good, and now it is owned by a Chinese consortium, and updates regularly. In 2016 Opera Software ASA was acquired by a consortium of Chinese investors including Kunlun Tech and Qihoo 360 - later it went public on NASDAQ in 2018. Valens Research reported that some Russian investors did invest on Opera, but majority is still owned by Chinese investors. With Chinese link of Opera, I am more inclined to Vivaldi these days.

Issue: Vivaldi showing suggestions, and it's completing .com or remaining part, so for eg, as you see in the picture, I typed flipkart and Vivaldi adds .com  and when I push Enter button on keyboard it goes into flipkart.com, but I wanted to search flipkart on Google. The issue is with Auto Complete.

Migration to Blink-based Opera 15+ from Opera 12+ (Presto based) [Updated Regularly]

Story was first published on 18th March, 2014

I am a long time Opera desktop user (on Android I use Dolphin) and when the company moved on to Blink from its own Presto I did not move on as Opera desktop version was a downgrade of features.

However next update to Opera Presto is yet to come, and company's dev team is not caring about Presto-powered version anymore. So I am starting the migration to Opera Blink today.

This is a long process, and I will update here, as soon as I made some movement.

Jump into the water

Installed Opera 18.0.1284.63, installation was straight forward and there is no issues. When you first use it, you have to learn few new things:

Open a new tab, you will find 3 options - Speed Dial, Stash and Discover. We know about Speed Dial.

Stash means where you can dump pages to read on later. [on Opera 12 I use Tab Vault, another extension]

Discover is a Flipboard-like stuff which can show you news on different categories and that's too country-specific. This feature was debuted on Opera for Android and now it is available on desktop too. I don't find it's much useful. (Update: It's now Personal News, or feed reader inbuilt)