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.
