On Fri, Aug 05, 2011 at 08:05:42AM +0530, Udhay Shankar N wrote: > I have an annoying problem with using google search on firefox, that I > hope someone can help with. > > I mostly use google for my search needs, exclusively through the search > box in firefox. I modify the behaviour of this by editing the config > file for each search plugin so that it gives me e.g 100 search results > sorted by date. This gives me a portable way of customising my results > without the need for cookies. > > Of late, this does not seem to be possible. Firstly, I can't seem to > turn the "google instant" thing off. Secondly, I'm not getting my 100
I have the exactly same problem, and it's driving me nuts. Another data point of Google pulling an AltaVista: pointless interface churn (measurable in WTF frequency, including my dear wife). Maybe I should learn to love that Duck Duck Go thing. > results default even though I am using the same text string as earlier. > > I am aware that this behaviour is supposedly configrable via google's > search settings page [1] but it is not working for me, likely because of > some interaction with the noscript plugin. I do not want to turn this off. > > Any thoughts? -- Eugen* Leitl <a href="http://leitl.org";>leitl</a> http://leitl.org ______________________________________________________________ ICBM: 48.07100, 11.36820 http://www.ativel.com http://postbiota.org 8B29F6BE: 099D 78BA 2FD3 B014 B08A 7779 75B0 2443 8B29 F6BE
