I've had had much better results with Firefox. Firefiox wins for reliability & anonymity. Maybe someday Chromium, or Chrome will catch up.
Cheers, Elcaset On Sun, Jun 12, 2011 at 8:11 PM, Bruce Kilpatrick <[email protected]> wrote: > On 06/12/2011 08:03 PM, Daniel Herrington wrote: > > All, > > > > Don't know how this happened, but recently when searching on google I > > would put in a word (after an initial search query and a returned > > listing), say foo, and then hold the right shift key to start a double > > quote, and google would flash something under the search box and then > > redirect to the default google search page. > > > > It drove me absolutely insane because the message flashed too quickly to > > read and then the redirect would occur. I'd be in the middle of typing > > in my query and, BAM! back to the search page. > > > > I googled for the problem and nothing came up. I'm running Chrome > > 11.0.696.71, Ubuntu 10.04 LTS. Anyone else seen this behavior. You > > simply need to search for something like foo on the default search page, > > then when the query returns, select in the search field and hit the > > space bar. Then hit the right shift key and hold for a second or two, > > then the redirect occurred. > > > > I finally was fast enough to do a screen capture and read the message > > "Google instant is unavailable. Press enter to search. Learn more". I > > disabled google instant search and the problem went away. > > > > Has anyone else seen or can replicate this behavior, or did a fubar > > something on my machine. > > > > thanks, > > > Nothing happened here using Ubuntu Natty and Firefox 4.01 > > Bruce > _______________________________________________ > PLUG mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug > -- Free Geek Seattle- Helping The Needy Get Nerdy http://www.freegeekseattle.org/ https://groups.google.com/group/freegeek-seattle/topics?hl=en K Desktop Environment- Experience Freedom & User Friendliness http://kde.org/ Free Lossless Audio Codec https://secure.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/wiki/Flac Protect your digital freedom and privacy, eliminate DRM, learn more at http://www.defectivebydesign.org/what_is_drm _______________________________________________ PLUG mailing list [email protected] http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug
