Yes, I found that to be the solution as well. Thanks. I knew, there would be
something missing. Smile.
OK, here is a couple more tips for you all, once you have got that drop-down
list of providers to work.
Personally, I never saw any benefit of the Bing search service. Still, it
showed up as part of the list. So, I scrolled down to the bottom of the
list, where it says something like "Manage Search Providers". Then hit
Enter. A new list opens, showing you all the search providers currently
registered on your system.
Now, I scrolled down to the Bing, and then tabbed over to the Remove-button,
and hit Spacebar. That's it, no more Bing provider, to mess up my searches.
:) Go ahead, delete the engines you know, you never will need. You don't
need them, why have them linger there, only to play the risk that something
gets messy, and you will have to go through another hair-pull. Smile.
Secondly,and again a matter of personal taste, I prefer the searching
routine of Yahoo. Guess, that is a matter of what you are used to, but i
somehow feel the Yahoo screen to be a bit more easy to navigate. Allright,
the steps here will be the same, whichever of the providers you decide to go
for.
Since Yahoo is a bit down the list, I would have to enter the drop-down and
choose Yahoo every time I want a search. That would mean a few extra steps -
several times a day, in some cases. But see, there is a way around it. While
you are in the "Manage Search Providers" screen, choose the provider you
want to be the MAIN provider for you. Then tab over to the Up-button, and
hit spacebar, and the provider will be moved one position up in the list.
Repeat this, till your provider is at top of the list. Then close the
manager. Try go back to Firefox, and hit Ctrl-K. It now should say "Search
Yahoo" - or whichever provider you chose. Enter your search term, and hit
Enter. There you go. Smile.
Should you now, want the cleanest screen for your daily activities in
Firefox, you can go back to the View-menu, then Toolbars, and then hitting
Enter on the Navigation. This will uncheck it,and you are back where we
started out, without all that clutter on top of your Firefox screen. The
Ctrl-K, now will take you directly to the screen of your new search
provider, and you will have to find the edit box there, for filling in your
query. But, at least, you have changed the standard search provider of your
Firefox, and you still have got a clutterless screen when working in
Firefox. Actually, my Firefox is set to show no toolbars at all, which I
prefer, since I then don't have to pass by a load of toolbars, every time I
use the mousekeys on a website.
Hope some of this would be of help to someone out there.
----- Original Message -----
From: "Chris H" <[email protected]>
To: <[email protected]>
Sent: Sunday, March 03, 2013 12:59 PM
Subject: Re: search box
Yes! Go to view, toolbars, navigation bar. Without this it just opens
whatever search engine Firefox is set to use, and not a separate search
box.
Christopher Hallsworth
On 02/03/2013 22:58, David wrote:
HMM, well.
I open Firefox.
Hit Ctrl-K, and immediately Google Search loads.
I try to hit Alt-Down, but that gives me absolutely no reaction.
So, apparently, there might be a setting somewhare for getting to change
the search provider. As I said, Ctrl-K doesn't even leave me the chance
of doing anything, before the Google page loads.
Firefox should be up-to-date, since I updated it only a couple of hours
ago.
Any ideas, of what setting might need to be changed, or if I am missing
out somewhere in the steps outlined below?
----- Original Message ----- From: "Thomas N. Chan"
<[email protected]>
To: "'gw-info'" <[email protected]>
Sent: Saturday, March 02, 2013 9:33 PM
Subject: RE: search box
All you need to do to change that is, hit ctrl - k
Alt - down arrow and find manage search engine.
It works for the latest version of firefox 19 and in fact, it work for a
while now.
--------------------
regards
Thomas N. Chan
-----Original Message-----
From: Brice Mijares [mailto:[email protected]]
Sent: Saturday, 2 March 2013 10:42 PM
To: gw-info
Subject: search box
At one time in firefox you could hit control K and Google would be the
default search engine. And if I remember correctly by hitting alt down
arrow you could rotor through different search engine in the list. I
don't
know how this Bing became my default search engine. I've checked in
programs and features to remove it, but it's not listed. It's not
listed in
firefox add on's either. Essentially I need to know how I can get
accessible Google to open when I hit control K instead of Bing.
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