Re: Google search messed up

2019-10-29 Thread NFN Smith
Mike C wrote: Just curious... Why does Mozilla Seamonkey do this. And Mozella Firefox doesn't I thought Both SM and FF were both Mozilla. I noted before is that it's how Google handles things with the User Agent setting. If you set Seamonkey to show a standard Firefox UA, then Google's

Re: Google search messed up

2019-10-29 Thread Don Spam's Reckless Son
Just the fact that it worked with Seamonkey 2.49.4 until fairly recently should be enough to indicate who broke things. Mike C wrote: Just curious... Why does Mozilla Seamonkey do this. And Mozella Firefox doesn't I thought Both SM and FF were both Mozilla. Mike C wrote: Google search

Re: Google search messed up

2019-10-29 Thread Dirk Fieldhouse
On 29/10/19 04:00, Mike C wrote: Just curious... Why does Mozilla Seamonkey do this. And Mozella Firefox doesn't I thought Both SM and FF were both Mozilla. The question should be "Why does Google do this? I thought Both SM and FF were both Mozilla." Presumably G's servers look at the UA

Re: Google search messed up

2019-10-28 Thread Mike C
Just curious... Why does Mozilla Seamonkey do this. And Mozella Firefox doesn't I thought Both SM and FF were both Mozilla. Mike C wrote: Google search is messed up in SM browser. Normally the cursor sits in the center of the Google window for me to enter a search request. Now it's

Re: Google search messed up

2019-10-28 Thread Mike C
I don't know how to do any of these: > What UA's have you tried? > Did removing SM from your UA string do anything? > Did you set UA override FF part to Firefox/55.0? > Did setting webgl to disabled do anything? Paul in Houston, TX wrote: Mike C wrote: Apparently there's no fix for this. If

Re: Google search messed up

2019-10-26 Thread Dirk Fieldhouse
On 25/10/19 22:00, WaltS48 wrote: ... > Actually feature detection is the preferred way to tell if a browser can display the site. ... Which we all know, and so do people at Google, as their blog shows. But when it comes to their major online product, that all goes out of the window, down

Re: Google search messed up

2019-10-25 Thread WaltS48
On 10/25/19 2:12 PM, Dirk Fieldhouse wrote: On 25/10/19 09:22, Frank-Rainer Grahl wrote: ...> The fix is for Goggle to correct their incorrect user agent detection. They don't care about anyhting but Chrome so hell will probably frezze over first. You can only set a custom user agent for

Re: Google search messed up

2019-10-25 Thread Dirk Fieldhouse
On 25/10/19 09:22, Frank-Rainer Grahl wrote: ...> The fix is for Goggle to correct their incorrect user agent detection. They don't care about anyhting but Chrome so hell will probably frezze over first. You can only set a custom user agent for their broken site. Or override the broken

Re: Google search messed up

2019-10-25 Thread Frank-Rainer Grahl
Mike C wrote: Apparently there's no fix for this. If you know a fix, please speak up. And yes I unchecked boxes in preferences > Advanced > HTTP This fixed the problem about a year ago, doesn't fix it now. Mike C wrote: Google search is messed up in SM browser. Normally the cursor sits in

Re: Google search messed up

2019-10-24 Thread Paul in Houston, TX
Mike C wrote: Apparently there's no fix for this. If you know a fix, please speak up. And yes I unchecked boxes in preferences > Advanced > HTTP This fixed the problem about a year ago, doesn't fix it now. What UA's have you tried? Did removing SM from your UA string do anything? Did you set

Re: Google search messed up

2019-10-24 Thread Jonathan Wilson
I have "Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64; rv:64.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/64.0" set in about:config under general.useragent.override.google.com.au and it seems to work for me. Without that user agent override I get the same problems others have described. I have "Advertise Firefox

Re: Google search messed up

2019-10-24 Thread Mike C
Apparently there's no fix for this. If you know a fix, please speak up. And yes I unchecked boxes in preferences > Advanced > HTTP This fixed the problem about a year ago, doesn't fix it now. Mike C wrote: Google search is messed up in SM browser. Normally the cursor sits in the center of the

Re: Google search messed up

2019-10-24 Thread Ray Davison
David H. Durgee wrote: I have used StartPage for years. They use the google engine but don't invade my privacy. But you still get to see what Google thinks you should. A recent, serious study showed that Google has both the bias and ability to effect close elections. Bing and Yahoo did

Re: Google search messed up

2019-10-23 Thread MRoss-GMX
Mon, 21 Oct 2019 11:32 -0500 Mike C wrote: Google search is messed up in SM browser. Seamonkey is not the problem, and DuckDuckGo.com helps; But; Any form of Google is messed up for decades now, not reliable or safe for use by any non-Google software/server/client to access; not in compliance

Re: Google search messed up

2019-10-23 Thread WaltS48
On 10/23/19 1:08 PM, alex zuber wrote: On Monday, October 21, 2019 at 6:19:55 PM UTC-4, Paul in Houston, TX wrote: Mike C wrote: Google search is messed up in SM browser. Normally the cursor sits in the center of the Google window for me to enter a search request. Now it's sitting up at the

Re: Google search messed up

2019-10-23 Thread Paul in Houston, TX
alex zuber wrote: On Monday, October 21, 2019 at 6:19:55 PM UTC-4, Paul in Houston, TX wrote: Mike C wrote: Google search is messed up in SM browser. Normally the cursor sits in the center of the Google window for me to enter a search request. Now it's sitting up at the top of the window,

Re: Google search messed up

2019-10-23 Thread David H. Durgee
Ray Davison wrote: > alex zuber wrote: > >> >> Has any body used the the new Google. >> > No, but I switched to Bing, yes after disliking everything about MS. > > Bing seems to work just fine and doesn't have the issue of this thread, > or other issues left unstated here. > > Ray > > I have

Re: Google search messed up

2019-10-23 Thread Ray Davison
alex zuber wrote: Has any body used the the new Google. No, but I switched to Bing, yes after disliking everything about MS. Bing seems to work just fine and doesn't have the issue of this thread, or other issues left unstated here. Ray ___

Re: Google search messed up

2019-10-23 Thread alex zuber
On Monday, October 21, 2019 at 6:19:55 PM UTC-4, Paul in Houston, TX wrote: > Mike C wrote: > > Google search is messed up in SM browser. > > > > Normally the cursor sits in the center of the Google window for me to > > enter a search request. > > > > Now it's sitting up at the top of the window,

Re: Google search messed up

2019-10-22 Thread cyberzen
Mike C a écrit : And yes, I have version 2.49.4 Windows 10 pro Mike C wrote: Google search is messed up in SM browser. Normally the cursor sits in the center of the Google window for me to enter a search request. Now it's sitting up at the top of the window, over the top line of the box.

Re: Google search messed up

2019-10-21 Thread Mike C
Hello NFN Smith, Thanks for your suggestion. Not sure I know how to do it. Please explain a little more. > You can also hard-code that into your prefs.js file (via about:config), > by setting general.useragent.override.google.com to show a true Firefox > UA. I had forgotten that I've done this

Re: Google search messed up

2019-10-21 Thread Paul in Houston, TX
Mike C wrote: Google search is messed up in SM browser. Normally the cursor sits in the center of the Google window for me to enter a search request. Now it's sitting up at the top of the window, over the top line of the box. And if more than 18 letters some letters disappear. That is a

Re: Google search messed up

2019-10-21 Thread NFN Smith
Mike C wrote: Google search is messed up in SM browser. Normally the cursor sits in the center of the Google window for me to enter a search request. Now it's sitting up at the top of the window, over the top line of the box. And if more than 18 letters some letters disappear. That's

Re: Google search messed up

2019-10-21 Thread Mike C
And yes, I have version 2.49.4 Windows 10 pro Mike C wrote: Google search is messed up in SM browser. Normally the cursor sits in the center of the Google window for me to enter a search request. Now it's sitting up at the top of the window, over the top line of the box. And if more than

Google search messed up

2019-10-21 Thread Mike C
Google search is messed up in SM browser. Normally the cursor sits in the center of the Google window for me to enter a search request. Now it's sitting up at the top of the window, over the top line of the box. And if more than 18 letters some letters disappear. -- This email has been