Re: Simple solution for Google search box: (Re: google search box)

[stan]

Paul Bergsagel wrote:
> I suffered from the Google search mess with SeaMonkey.  Then I came 
across a solution: I turned off "advertise Firefox compatibility".

>
> To turn off "advertise Firefox compatibility" go to SeaMonkey's 
preferences click on Advance>HTTP Networking>(uncheck)Advertise Firefox 
compatibility.

>
> This fix solved the difficulties I was having with Google.
>
> Google returned to its normal appearance.  Also With this setting 
turned off I have yet to find any negative effects on other sites. With 
this setting turned off, some sites even appear to work.


This use to worked but recently it stopped working.
It is same distorted box.
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Re: Simple solution for Google search box: (Re: google search box)

[stan]

Paul Bergsagel wrote:
I suffered from the Google search mess with SeaMonkey.  Then I came 
across a solution: I turned off "advertise Firefox compatibility".


To turn off "advertise Firefox compatibility" go to SeaMonkey's 
preferences click on Advance>HTTP Networking>(uncheck)Advertise Firefox 
compatibility.


This fix solved the difficulties I was having with Google.

Google returned to its normal appearance.  Also With this setting turned 
off I have yet to find any negative effects on other sites. With this 
setting turned off, some sites even appear to work.



This use to worked but recently it stopped working.
It is same distorted box.
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Re: Simple solution for Google search box: (Re: google search box)

[Dirk Fieldhouse]

At the moment Google serves both old and new versions of its search 
pages. The search box problem is with the new home pages: eg 
https://www.google.[co.uk,fr,de,...]. However the new results pages, as 
of the last few months, are also corrupted.


Instead of spoofing the UA, you can restyle the pages.

The CSS below (NB unwrap the @-moz-document line) makes the new Google 
search pages appear sensibly. You can add this using an extension such 
as Stylish or Stylus, or through chrome/userContent.css in your profile 
directory (see the userContent-example.css shipped with SM in that 
directory for help).


@namespace url(http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml);

/* match google.[com, co.uk, .fr, ...][/search?..., ?gws_rd...] */
@-moz-document regexp( 
"^https?://www\\.google\\.(com|((co\\.)?[a-z]{2}))(/((search\\?|\\?gws_rd=.+))?)?") 
{


  /* fix search text box */
  #searchform form input[type="text"] {
/* vertical position of text */
margin-top: 0;
/* width of text field */
width: 49ch;
  }

  /* fix results page */
  /* use more of the window */
  body {
max-width: 90%;
  }
  /* put the search box in the middle */
  .Pg70bf {
justify-content: center;
  }
  /* highlight text boxes */
  .sbc input[type="text"] {
background:   honeydew;
  }
  /* re-add borders */
  body>div>div {
box-shadow: 0 0px 0px ;
  }
  /* spread footer nav out */
  footer>div:first-child>div>div {
display: flex;
justify-content: center;
  }
}


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Re: Simple solution for Google search box: (Re: google search box)

[Richard Owlett]

On 06/19/2019 08:13 PM, Paul Bergsagel wrote:
I suffered from the Google search mess with SeaMonkey.  Then I came 
across a solution: I turned off "advertise Firefox compatibility".


To turn off "advertise Firefox compatibility" go to SeaMonkey's 
preferences click on Advance>HTTP Networking>(uncheck)Advertise Firefox 
compatibility.


This fix solved the difficulties I was having with Google.

Google returned to its normal appearance.  Also With this setting turned 
off I have yet to find any negative effects on other sites. With this 
setting turned off, some sites even appear to work.




*THANK YOU* !
I had assumed that Google was one of sites placing graphics at absolute 
positions rather than making them a function of font size.



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Re: Simple solution for Google search box: (Re: google search box)

[Frank-Rainer Grahl]

Ronnie wrote:

hmmm after a quick test it seems it sends me to google mobile mode...


Paul Bergsagel wrote:
I suffered from the Google search mess with SeaMonkey.  Then I came across a 
solution: I turned off "advertise Firefox compatibility".


To turn off "advertise Firefox compatibility" go to SeaMonkey's preferences 
click on Advance>HTTP Networking>(uncheck)Advertise Firefox compatibility.


This fix solved the difficulties I was having with Google.

Google returned to its normal appearance.  Also With this setting turned off 
I have yet to find any negative effects on other sites. With this setting 
turned off, some sites even appear to work.




Turning off Firefox compatibility will break other web sites. Regardless of 
what you do something will not work unless you use a specific domain override. 
You can use a global override for every site to report a genunie Firefox UA 
but in this case you give sites even less incentive to do it right and bolster 
Firefox market share by another 0.001%. Something I personally dislike to no end.


FRG
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Re: Simple solution for Google search box: (Re: google search box)

[Ronnie]

hmmm after a quick test it seems it sends me to google mobile mode...


Paul Bergsagel wrote:
I suffered from the Google search mess with SeaMonkey.  Then I came 
across a solution: I turned off "advertise Firefox compatibility".


To turn off "advertise Firefox compatibility" go to SeaMonkey's 
preferences click on Advance>HTTP Networking>(uncheck)Advertise 
Firefox compatibility.


This fix solved the difficulties I was having with Google.

Google returned to its normal appearance.  Also With this setting 
turned off I have yet to find any negative effects on other sites. 
With this setting turned off, some sites even appear to work.





Frank-Rainer Grahl wrote:



Daniel wrote:

David E. Ross wrote on 19/06/2019 2:41 PM:

On 6/18/2019 8:10 PM, Ronnie wrote:
I've been dealing with this quite a while and wonder if it's just 
me and

if not whats the fix... the search box in google with seamonkey is
hosed... the cursor places itself in a weird position and only allows
for so many characters to be entered before it starts to be hidden...


Windows 7
SeaMonkey 2.49.4

If I use Google, I always use its Advanced Search at
.  I do not see your
problem there.

However, I generally search with DuckDuckGo at
.  They do not capture and retain any
information about me and my searches.

I seem to recall, some time ago, someone reporting that, when they 
used a (Google??) search engine, they were having difficulties 
seeing the text they entered  as though, to start, they were 
entering their text on line 2 of a 1.5 line high text box.


Some letters you could work out by their tops, some letters you 
could not work out!


I don't recall what the fix was ... as I also use dickduckgo.com.



Google does incorrect user agent sniffing and return html gobblygock 
to SeaMonkey. You need to set a plain Firefox user agent for this to 
work.


FRG


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Re: Simple solution for Google search box: (Re: google search box)

[Ronnie]

Thanks, another user I think suggested that as well.. but I just now got 
around to trying it. it's better than my solution of yet another 
addon



Paul Bergsagel wrote:
I suffered from the Google search mess with SeaMonkey.  Then I came 
across a solution: I turned off "advertise Firefox compatibility".


To turn off "advertise Firefox compatibility" go to SeaMonkey's 
preferences click on Advance>HTTP Networking>(uncheck)Advertise 
Firefox compatibility.


This fix solved the difficulties I was having with Google.

Google returned to its normal appearance.  Also With this setting 
turned off I have yet to find any negative effects on other sites. 
With this setting turned off, some sites even appear to work.





Frank-Rainer Grahl wrote:



Daniel wrote:

David E. Ross wrote on 19/06/2019 2:41 PM:

On 6/18/2019 8:10 PM, Ronnie wrote:
I've been dealing with this quite a while and wonder if it's just 
me and

if not whats the fix... the search box in google with seamonkey is
hosed... the cursor places itself in a weird position and only allows
for so many characters to be entered before it starts to be hidden...


Windows 7
SeaMonkey 2.49.4

If I use Google, I always use its Advanced Search at
.  I do not see your
problem there.

However, I generally search with DuckDuckGo at
.  They do not capture and retain any
information about me and my searches.

I seem to recall, some time ago, someone reporting that, when they 
used a (Google??) search engine, they were having difficulties 
seeing the text they entered  as though, to start, they were 
entering their text on line 2 of a 1.5 line high text box.


Some letters you could work out by their tops, some letters you 
could not work out!


I don't recall what the fix was ... as I also use dickduckgo.com.



Google does incorrect user agent sniffing and return html gobblygock 
to SeaMonkey. You need to set a plain Firefox user agent for this to 
work.


FRG


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