Paul Hartman wrote: > On Fri, Aug 14, 2009 at 3:14 PM, Dale<rdalek1...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> Paul Hartman wrote: >> >>> On Fri, Aug 14, 2009 at 2:45 PM, Dale<rdalek1...@gmail.com> wrote: >>> >>> >>>> Hi, >>>> >>>> I been looking for a way to "disable" this so called "feature" but I >>>> can't find anything to disable this Google thing Seamonkey does. I >>>> bookmark a lot of websites and use keywords to go to them. The local >>>> weather forecast for example is "fore". It works but Google gets in the >>>> way. >>>> >>>> Now to explain a little. When I mouse click in the address location and >>>> enter "fore", this little thing pops up and wants to do a Google search >>>> for the word "fore". Naturally this does NOT get me to the local >>>> weather forecast since it bypasses looking for the keyword. I like the >>>> history feature that pops up but I want to get rid of the Google search >>>> part. If I want to search for something with Google, I type in gg and >>>> then type in what I am searching for. >>>> >>>> I have looked in preferences, even looked at the USE flags but I can't >>>> figure out how to get rid of this. It is annoying as heck. I like >>>> Google but I know how to get there myself, even have a shortcut to get >>>> there. How do I get rid of this? >>>> >>>> Thanks much. >>>> >>>> Dale >>>> >>>> >>> On my Seamonkey, it only does the Google search if I move down to the >>> "Google search 'fore'" and click it/press enter on it. Otherwise it >>> goes to DNS. (I do not have "Internet Keywords" enabled in seamonkey) >>> >>> >>> >>> >> I think what it is is this, I click on the location bar and my mouse >> moves down a little when I type something in. I'm a old fart so I look >> down at my keyboard a lot when I type, especially when I am coming back >> from the mouse. I think that when I hit return the mouse is just under >> the location bar which when I hit return makes it go to the Google >> search thing. >> >> Makes me want to learn source code and get rid of that and a couple >> other things too. I don't like that right click options to much. >> >> Maybe this is one of those times when problem is in the chair? ;-) >> >> Dale >> > > Perhaps :) I've definitely done that about a million times by > accident. What happens to me usually is I click in the location bar so > I can type a URL, then I nudge my mouse out of the way so I can see > what I'm typing. As I'm typing, the mouse drifts 1 pixel, causing the > "Google search 'blah'" bar to become highlighted. When I press enter > to go to my URL, it googles the URL instead, causing me to mutter > workplace-inappropriate things to myself. My cure for this: use > control-L instead of the mouse to put the focus on the location bar... > except for the 50% of the time when I forget to do that and use the > mouse instead. > > I use the Google search from the location bar on purpose all the time, > though; it is my primary method of googling. I type something and > press downarrow-enter and off I go. I can't even remember the last > time I went to google.com directly. > > >
What you are describing is what I am talking about. I just always go to Google because my bookmark has a lot of preferences set up there, like display 100 results instead of 10. Only thing is, most all the time I am not wanting to "search" for anything but just go to a bookmark. It's annoying as heck. Dale :-) :-)
