[gentoo-user] Seamonkey and google

[gentoo-user] Seamonkey and google

[Dale]

Hi,

I been looking for a way to "disable" this so called "feature" but I
can't find anything to disable this Google thing Seamonkey does.  I
bookmark a lot of websites and use keywords to go to them.  The local
weather forecast for example is "fore".  It works but Google gets in the
way.

Now to explain a little.  When I mouse click in the address location and
enter "fore", this little thing pops up and wants to do a Google search
for the word "fore".  Naturally this does NOT get me to the local
weather forecast since it bypasses looking for the keyword.  I like the
history feature that pops up but I want to get rid of the Google search
part.  If I want to search for something with Google, I type in gg and
then type in what I am searching for.

I have looked in preferences, even looked at the USE flags but I can't
figure out how to get rid of this.  It is annoying as heck.  I like
Google but I know how to get there myself, even have a shortcut to get
there.  How do I get rid of this?

Thanks much.

Dale

:-)  :-) 

Re: [gentoo-user] Seamonkey and google

[Paul Hartman]

On Fri, Aug 14, 2009 at 2:45 PM, Dale<rdalek1967@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I been looking for a way to "disable" this so called "feature" but I
> can't find anything to disable this Google thing Seamonkey does.  I
> bookmark a lot of websites and use keywords to go to them.  The local
> weather forecast for example is "fore".  It works but Google gets in the
> way.
>
> Now to explain a little.  When I mouse click in the address location and
> enter "fore", this little thing pops up and wants to do a Google search
> for the word "fore".  Naturally this does NOT get me to the local
> weather forecast since it bypasses looking for the keyword.  I like the
> history feature that pops up but I want to get rid of the Google search
> part.  If I want to search for something with Google, I type in gg and
> then type in what I am searching for.
>
> I have looked in preferences, even looked at the USE flags but I can't
> figure out how to get rid of this.  It is annoying as heck.  I like
> Google but I know how to get there myself, even have a shortcut to get
> there.  How do I get rid of this?
>
> Thanks much.
>
> Dale

On my Seamonkey, it only does the Google search if I move down to the
"Google search 'fore'" and click it/press enter on it. Otherwise it
goes to DNS. (I do not have "Internet Keywords" enabled in seamonkey)

Re: [gentoo-user] Seamonkey and google

[Dale]

Paul Hartman wrote:
> On Fri, Aug 14, 2009 at 2:45 PM, Dale<rdalek1967@gmail.com> wrote:
>   
>> Hi,
>>
>> I been looking for a way to "disable" this so called "feature" but I
>> can't find anything to disable this Google thing Seamonkey does.  I
>> bookmark a lot of websites and use keywords to go to them.  The local
>> weather forecast for example is "fore".  It works but Google gets in the
>> way.
>>
>> Now to explain a little.  When I mouse click in the address location and
>> enter "fore", this little thing pops up and wants to do a Google search
>> for the word "fore".  Naturally this does NOT get me to the local
>> weather forecast since it bypasses looking for the keyword.  I like the
>> history feature that pops up but I want to get rid of the Google search
>> part.  If I want to search for something with Google, I type in gg and
>> then type in what I am searching for.
>>
>> I have looked in preferences, even looked at the USE flags but I can't
>> figure out how to get rid of this.  It is annoying as heck.  I like
>> Google but I know how to get there myself, even have a shortcut to get
>> there.  How do I get rid of this?
>>
>> Thanks much.
>>
>> Dale
>>     
>
> On my Seamonkey, it only does the Google search if I move down to the
> "Google search 'fore'" and click it/press enter on it. Otherwise it
> goes to DNS. (I do not have "Internet Keywords" enabled in seamonkey)
>
>
>   

I think what it is is this, I click on the location bar and my mouse
moves down a little when I type something in.  I'm a old fart so I look
down at my keyboard a lot when I type, especially when I am coming back
from the mouse.  I think that when I hit return the mouse is just under
the location bar which when I hit return makes it go to the Google
search thing.

Makes me want to learn source code and get rid of that and a couple
other things too.  I don't like that right click options to much.

Maybe this is one of those times when problem is in the chair?  ;-)

Dale

:-)  :-) 

Re: [gentoo-user] Seamonkey and google

[Paul Hartman]

On Fri, Aug 14, 2009 at 3:14 PM, Dale<rdalek1967@gmail.com> wrote:
> Paul Hartman wrote:
>> On Fri, Aug 14, 2009 at 2:45 PM, Dale<rdalek1967@gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>> Hi,
>>>
>>> I been looking for a way to "disable" this so called "feature" but I
>>> can't find anything to disable this Google thing Seamonkey does.  I
>>> bookmark a lot of websites and use keywords to go to them.  The local
>>> weather forecast for example is "fore".  It works but Google gets in the
>>> way.
>>>
>>> Now to explain a little.  When I mouse click in the address location and
>>> enter "fore", this little thing pops up and wants to do a Google search
>>> for the word "fore".  Naturally this does NOT get me to the local
>>> weather forecast since it bypasses looking for the keyword.  I like the
>>> history feature that pops up but I want to get rid of the Google search
>>> part.  If I want to search for something with Google, I type in gg and
>>> then type in what I am searching for.
>>>
>>> I have looked in preferences, even looked at the USE flags but I can't
>>> figure out how to get rid of this.  It is annoying as heck.  I like
>>> Google but I know how to get there myself, even have a shortcut to get
>>> there.  How do I get rid of this?
>>>
>>> Thanks much.
>>>
>>> Dale
>>>
>>
>> On my Seamonkey, it only does the Google search if I move down to the
>> "Google search 'fore'" and click it/press enter on it. Otherwise it
>> goes to DNS. (I do not have "Internet Keywords" enabled in seamonkey)
>>
>>
>>
>
> I think what it is is this, I click on the location bar and my mouse
> moves down a little when I type something in.  I'm a old fart so I look
> down at my keyboard a lot when I type, especially when I am coming back
> from the mouse.  I think that when I hit return the mouse is just under
> the location bar which when I hit return makes it go to the Google
> search thing.
>
> Makes me want to learn source code and get rid of that and a couple
> other things too.  I don't like that right click options to much.
>
> Maybe this is one of those times when problem is in the chair?  ;-)
>
> Dale

Perhaps :) I've definitely done that about a million times by
accident. What happens to me usually is I click in the location bar so
I can type a URL, then I nudge my mouse out of the way so I can see
what I'm typing. As I'm typing, the mouse drifts 1 pixel, causing the
"Google search 'blah'" bar to become highlighted. When I press enter
to go to my URL, it googles the URL instead, causing me to mutter
workplace-inappropriate things to myself. My cure for this: use
control-L instead of the mouse to put the focus on the location bar...
except for the 50% of the time when I forget to do that and use the
mouse instead.

I use the Google search from the location bar on purpose all the time,
though; it is my primary method of googling. I type something and
press downarrow-enter and off I go. I can't even remember the last
time I went to google.com directly.

Re: [gentoo-user] Seamonkey and google

[Dale]

Paul Hartman wrote:
> On Fri, Aug 14, 2009 at 3:14 PM, Dale<rdalek1967@gmail.com> wrote:
>   
>> Paul Hartman wrote:
>>     
>>> On Fri, Aug 14, 2009 at 2:45 PM, Dale<rdalek1967@gmail.com> wrote:
>>>
>>>       
>>>> Hi,
>>>>
>>>> I been looking for a way to "disable" this so called "feature" but I
>>>> can't find anything to disable this Google thing Seamonkey does.  I
>>>> bookmark a lot of websites and use keywords to go to them.  The local
>>>> weather forecast for example is "fore".  It works but Google gets in the
>>>> way.
>>>>
>>>> Now to explain a little.  When I mouse click in the address location and
>>>> enter "fore", this little thing pops up and wants to do a Google search
>>>> for the word "fore".  Naturally this does NOT get me to the local
>>>> weather forecast since it bypasses looking for the keyword.  I like the
>>>> history feature that pops up but I want to get rid of the Google search
>>>> part.  If I want to search for something with Google, I type in gg and
>>>> then type in what I am searching for.
>>>>
>>>> I have looked in preferences, even looked at the USE flags but I can't
>>>> figure out how to get rid of this.  It is annoying as heck.  I like
>>>> Google but I know how to get there myself, even have a shortcut to get
>>>> there.  How do I get rid of this?
>>>>
>>>> Thanks much.
>>>>
>>>> Dale
>>>>
>>>>         
>>> On my Seamonkey, it only does the Google search if I move down to the
>>> "Google search 'fore'" and click it/press enter on it. Otherwise it
>>> goes to DNS. (I do not have "Internet Keywords" enabled in seamonkey)
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>       
>> I think what it is is this, I click on the location bar and my mouse
>> moves down a little when I type something in.  I'm a old fart so I look
>> down at my keyboard a lot when I type, especially when I am coming back
>> from the mouse.  I think that when I hit return the mouse is just under
>> the location bar which when I hit return makes it go to the Google
>> search thing.
>>
>> Makes me want to learn source code and get rid of that and a couple
>> other things too.  I don't like that right click options to much.
>>
>> Maybe this is one of those times when problem is in the chair?  ;-)
>>
>> Dale
>>     
>
> Perhaps :) I've definitely done that about a million times by
> accident. What happens to me usually is I click in the location bar so
> I can type a URL, then I nudge my mouse out of the way so I can see
> what I'm typing. As I'm typing, the mouse drifts 1 pixel, causing the
> "Google search 'blah'" bar to become highlighted. When I press enter
> to go to my URL, it googles the URL instead, causing me to mutter
> workplace-inappropriate things to myself. My cure for this: use
> control-L instead of the mouse to put the focus on the location bar...
> except for the 50% of the time when I forget to do that and use the
> mouse instead.
>
> I use the Google search from the location bar on purpose all the time,
> though; it is my primary method of googling. I type something and
> press downarrow-enter and off I go. I can't even remember the last
> time I went to google.com directly.
>
>
>   

What you are describing is what I am talking about.  I just always go to
Google because my bookmark has a lot of preferences set up there, like
display 100 results instead of 10. 

Only thing is, most all the time I am not wanting to "search" for
anything but just go to a bookmark.  It's annoying as heck.

Dale

:-)  :-)

Re: [gentoo-user] Seamonkey and google

[pk]

Dale wrote:
> Now to explain a little.  When I mouse click in the address location and
> enter "fore", this little thing pops up and wants to do a Google search
> for the word "fore".  Naturally this does NOT get me to the local
> weather forecast since it bypasses looking for the keyword.  I like the
> history feature that pops up but I want to get rid of the Google search
> part.  If I want to search for something with Google, I type in gg and
> then type in what I am searching for.

You can try:

http://maketecheasier.com/28-coolest-firefox-aboutconfig-tricks/2008/08/21
(most entries in about:config is shared between seamonkey/firefox)

http://kb.mozillazine.org/About:config_entries

keyword.URL and/or keyword.enabled may be what you are looking for.

HTH

Best regards

Peter Karlsson

Re: [gentoo-user] Seamonkey and google

[Sebastian Beßler]

Dale schrieb:
> Hi,

> I have looked in preferences, even looked at the USE flags but I can't
> figure out how to get rid of this.  It is annoying as heck.  I like
> Google but I know how to get there myself, even have a shortcut to get
> there.  How do I get rid of this?

type about:config as URL
then search for browser.urlbar.showSearch and set it to false.
That should get rid of it.

Greets

Sebastian

Re: [gentoo-user] Seamonkey and google

[Sebastian Beßler]

Dale schrieb:

> Now that seems to have worked.  Will test this more later tho.  Supper
> time here.
> 
> THANKS MUCH !! !! !!
> 
> Dale
> 
> :-)  :-) 
> 

No thx.
Its nice to help a fellow seamonkey-user

Sebastian

Re: [gentoo-user] Seamonkey and google

[Dale]

pk wrote:
> Dale wrote:
>   
>> Now to explain a little.  When I mouse click in the address location and
>> enter "fore", this little thing pops up and wants to do a Google search
>> for the word "fore".  Naturally this does NOT get me to the local
>> weather forecast since it bypasses looking for the keyword.  I like the
>> history feature that pops up but I want to get rid of the Google search
>> part.  If I want to search for something with Google, I type in gg and
>> then type in what I am searching for.
>>     
>
> You can try:
>
> http://maketecheasier.com/28-coolest-firefox-aboutconfig-tricks/2008/08/21
> (most entries in about:config is shared between seamonkey/firefox)
>
> http://kb.mozillazine.org/About:config_entries
>
> keyword.URL and/or keyword.enabled may be what you are looking for.
>
> HTH
>
> Best regards
>
> Peter Karlsson
>
>
>   

I'm going to save those links.  I don't understand what 90% of that
config stuff does and I would hate to mess it up.

Thanks for the links.

Dale

:-)  :-)