Feature Requests item #578250, was opened at 2002-07-06 20:00 You can respond by visiting: https://sourceforge.net/tracker/?func=detail&atid=432069&aid=578250&group_id=42081
Category: None Group: None Status: Closed Resolution: Works For Me Priority: 5 Submitted By: Nobody/Anonymous (nobody) Assigned to: Nobody/Anonymous (nobody) Summary: search engine Initial Comment: Google is a great search engine...However it would be nice to have your search bar default to a new selection such as Alta Vista or Nothern lights etc... I realize these can be selected in the menu, but it would be nice to default to a new search engine and use it for a while and then perhaps change to a new one for a while without going into the menu... Your new release of Daves Toolbar with its links is trully GREAT!! kind regards [EMAIL PROTECTED] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- >Comment By: Glenn Carr (glenncarr) Date: 2002-07-08 11:32 Message: Logged In: YES user_id=18127 You can also simply type the shortcut for the search to bypass the menu. E.g., for altavista... "av daves quick search deskbar" There's no search for northernlight at the present, but I'm sure someone would be glad to write one up (http://www.northernlight.com) ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Comment By: Glenn Carr (glenncarr) Date: 2002-07-08 10:56 Message: Logged In: YES user_id=18127 [from John Bairen] there is a setting in preferences.js that you override by editing localprefs.js in notepad. the setting determines which search is launched by default. all you need to do is modify this setting every so often and you have your request. the setting should currently look something like this... /* Default search engine - if no user-specified default search * (in aliases.txt) fall back to this one * gg=google [default] */ defaultsearch="gg"; change it (in localprefs.js) to look like this to make it launch altavista (for example)... /* Default search engine - if no user-specified default search * (in aliases.txt) fall back to this one * gg=google [default] */ defaultsearch="av"; ---------------------------------------------------------------------- You can respond by visiting: https://sourceforge.net/tracker/?func=detail&atid=432069&aid=578250&group_id=42081 ------------------------------------------------------- This sf.net email is sponsored by:ThinkGeek Oh, it's good to be a geek. http://thinkgeek.com/sf _______________________________________________ DQSD-Devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/dqsd-devel
