On 5/26/2011 7:50 AM, John Broome wrote: > Grr, sent this only to Lawrence, resending to list: > > > On Thu, May 26, 2011 at 09:56, Lawrence K. Chen, P.Eng.<[email protected]> > wrote: >> I must be missing something, I don't see a way to opt-out of instant search. > > > I'm guessing that suggesting to google it would make me an a-hole so > i'll walk everyone through it:
It would indeed make you precisely that, and I'll point out that it was only after HOURS of searching that I sent that email. > I did this in a browser where i wasn't signed in to google services so > it's available for people w/o a google account. You have to permit cookies to be set for this, of course. I have permitted that particular cookie permanently, and am careful not to delete it. I actually preferred Tom's link to your little step through, but I do want to point out a little something. If you're just someone who is expecting something to work today the way it did yesterday, why make it so hard to get that same experience? The amount of frustration I saw from people who hated this particular setting made me sad. Sure, it's turn off for this browser, now, but what on earth made them switch from WORDS to that stupid gear symbol? Yes, I recognized it when they decided gmail didn't suck enough, and added it in. It's not the kind of thing that really stands out, and it's non-obvious as to the purpose unless you've already seen it. > I'm also wondering if people are getting auto-complete in the search > box confused with Google Instant (tm). Nope. You can't turn off auto-complete, and haven't been able to for ages. Tom provided a link to the same place you gave instructions to get to (just pointing that out). Auto complete's annoying too, but I can live with it. If I have a complicated search string, I'll compose it elsewhere, and paste it in. Lawrence (if you've read this far), I get the little gear thing, and I'm using Firefox 3.6.12 on Win7 (hey, could be worse, could be Vista). I don't have it on my FreeBSD machine, but that's 6.3, and the browser is Firefox 2. What's really funny, in a sad kind of way, is that the preferences are just a link (no silly gear), and you can turn autocomplete off. Boo, Google, Boooo! I'd like to choose to turn it off everywhere. _______________________________________________ Discuss mailing list [email protected] https://lists.lopsa.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/discuss This list provided by the League of Professional System Administrators http://lopsa.org/
