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   Daniel70 to Nuno Silva   
   Re: How to make Google search work (solv   
   04 Nov 25 21:40:31   
   
   From: daniel47@nomail.afraid.org   
      
   On 4/11/2025 8:26 pm, Nuno Silva wrote:   
   > On 2025-11-04, Daniel70 wrote:   
   >> On 4/11/2025 3:54 am, Charlie Gibbs wrote:   
   >>> On 2025-11-03, Daniel70  wrote:   
   >>>> On 3/11/2025 9:48 pm, Nuno Silva wrote:   
   >>>>   
   >>>>> My experiences with 2 and 3 are with JS disabled (via NoScript), so it's   
   >>>>> possible something breaks with JS enabled, although I'd hope "HTML" and   
   >>>>> "lite" would also mean "no JS"...   
   >>>   
   >>> I run NoScript - but I'm having to "temporarily allow all on this page"   
   >>> more and more.  Even Wikipedia is requiring JS on an increasing number   
   >>> of its pages.   
   >>>   
   >>>> I've selected DDG as my prefered web search device in my SeaMonkey   
   >>>> Preferences, so I just have to enter "Something or other" in the Browser   
   >>>> address line, hit enter, and away DDG goes.   
   >>>   
   >>> Mine didn't do this, but I've now turned on the Preferences option to   
   >>> "Perform a web search when entered text is not a web location."   
   >>>   
   >>> I'm running Seamonkey 2.53.21 on Debian Bookworm.   
   >>>   
   >> Umm!! Where did you find THAT preference??   
   >   
   > It's the setting to search (or not) from the location bar   
   >   
   > Edit > Preferences > Browser > Location Bar, under "Unknown Locations"   
   > (it's the last checkbox in this pane).   
      
   WOW!! Yes, that one is there. I already had it ticked. Just never looked   
   all the way to the bottom of the screen.   
      
   > (Even with this disabled, it's possible to search using the location   
   > bar, by using bookmark keywords.)   
   > --   
   Daniel70   
      
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