I am not at all tech savvy, but I installed Opera several days ago after seeing it recommended on a thread.
However, I am having this problem, and I hope someone can help me with it. Going to Opera’s help pages was a waste of time.
The problem: Opera apparently wants you to use Google. DuckDuckGo is not one of their menu choices for search engines, but I did put it in my “Speed Dial” choices. But I cannot get rid of the Google search box that appears prominently at the top of the “Speed Dial” page. Can you help me? Thanks.
https://addons.opera.com/en/extensions/details/duckduckgo-for-opera-2/?display=en
I have found the extensions are a bit tricky to install in Opera, maybe it is the new version. If you click on install and it generates an error, I have found right clicking and “opening in new tab” gets around the error. After that, go back to the extensions menu item and “install” duckduckgo.
After it is installed, the “Duck” will show up to the right of the address bar, click on it and search.
I have duckduckgo on my opera: have no idea how I put it there since I have used Opera for about six months (after a Firefox update “ate” my Delicious bookmarks I didn’t use it often).
But just pull up the page and add it to the links and then voila it’s there on the ‘speed dial’ page.