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   Nuno Silva to All   
   Re: How to make Google search work (solv   
   04 Nov 25 09:26:15   
   
   From: nunojsilva@invalid.invalid   
      
   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).   
      
      
   (Even with this disabled, it's possible to search using the location   
   bar, by using bookmark keywords.)   
      
   --   
   Nuno Silva   
      
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