Chances are, something has been change and I got no idea what it is. The best is to either send me a screen shot or screen dump and I might be able to advise further. Ctrl - k is is a firefox shortcut key, unless something has taken over it.
-------------------- regards Thomas N. Chan -----Original Message----- From: Peter Beasley [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Sunday, 3 March 2013 6:01 PM To: David; Thomas N. Chan; 'gw-info' Subject: Re: search box Doesn't do anything for me either. In my case, control K takes me into AOL and alt down arrow does absolutely nothing. ----- Original Message ----- From: "David" <[email protected]> To: "Thomas N. Chan" <[email protected]>; "'gw-info'" <[email protected]> Sent: Saturday, March 02, 2013 10:58 PM Subject: Re: search box > 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. >> >> >> __________ Information from ESET Smart Security, version of virus >> signature >> database 8069 (20130302) __________ >> >> The message was checked by ESET Smart Security. >> >> http://www.eset.com >> >> >> If you reply to this message it will be delivered to the original sender >> only. If your reply would benefit others on the list and your message is >> related to GW Micro, then please consider sending your message to >> [email protected] so the entire list will receive it. >> >> GW-Info messages are archived at http://www.gwmicro.com/gwinfo. You can >> manage your list subscription at http://www.gwmicro.com/listserv. >> If you reply to this message it will be delivered to the original sender >> only. If your reply would benefit others on the list and your message is >> related to GW Micro, then please consider sending your message to >> [email protected] so the entire list will receive it. >> >> GW-Info messages are archived at http://www.gwmicro.com/gwinfo. You can >> manage your list subscription at http://www.gwmicro.com/listserv. >> > If you reply to this message it will be delivered to the original sender > only. If your reply would benefit others on the list and your message is > related to GW Micro, then please consider sending your message to > [email protected] so the entire list will receive it. > > GW-Info messages are archived at http://www.gwmicro.com/gwinfo. You can > manage your list subscription at http://www.gwmicro.com/listserv. > If you reply to this message it will be delivered to the original sender only. If your reply would benefit others on the list and your message is related to GW Micro, then please consider sending your message to [email protected] so the entire list will receive it. GW-Info messages are archived at http://www.gwmicro.com/gwinfo. You can manage your list subscription at http://www.gwmicro.com/listserv.
