Simulating Chrome's Omnibar in Opera

1. Type opera:config into your address bar in Opera and press enter.

2. Type "hostname" where it says "Quick find".

3. Uncheck "Enable Hostname Expansion"

4. Check "Enable HostName Web Lookup"

5. Paste your preferred search engine in "HostName Web Lookup Address" eg 

http://www.google.com/search?q=%s&sourceid=opera&num=%i&ie=utf-8&oe=utf-8

6. Save (remember this step!)

Opera will now handle single words in the address bar as searches.

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This does not seem to always work in Opera 10.1 Beta. If you type "antidisestablishmentarianism" it searches right away, but shorter words take much longer than simply typing "g %s".

129.74.228.126 (2009-10-14 07:57:34)

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210.212.145.132 (2009-10-22 12:49:02)

works like a charm
thx

193.77.78.123 (2009-11-13 03:54:16)

unfortunatelly, it doesn't suggest search results as in chrome :(

195.68.172.90 (2010-01-27 01:48:10)

No, no funciona.

186.18.233.215 (2010-02-03 10:02:11)

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