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   Message 9,413 of 9,710   
   Jukka Lahtinen to Hank Rogers   
   Re: How to make Google search work (solv   
   07 Nov 25 17:52:48   
   
   From: jtfjdehf@hotmail.com.invalid   
      
   Hank Rogers  writes:   
   > Jukka Lahtinen wrote on 11/6/2025 3:32 PM:   
   >> Daniel70  writes:   
   >>> On 6/11/2025 8:11 am, Jukka Lahtinen wrote:   
   >> (Trying to stop Android Firefox from using the url field as search   
   >> prompt)   
   >>   
   >>>> Search / default search engine (translated from the Finnish menu).   
   >>>> I have not found any way to select nothing as default. It's a radio   
   >>>> button set without "none" option.   
   >>>> Just options google, bing, duckduckgo, wikipedia and + to add   
   >>>> another one.   
   >>   
   >>> Why would you want to select "NO SEARCH ENGINE" as your default Search   
   >>> Engine??   
   >> Because I DON'T WANT my browser to treat the url field as search   
   >> engine   
   >> prompt!   
   >> If I type the name of a device in my home LAN to the url field, I   
   >> want to connect to that device, NOT to a search engine in the web.   
   >> And if I mistype something in the url, I don't want to wait for a search   
   >> engine.   
   >> There's the search applet on the home display of my phone, and I can   
   >> also type duckducgo.com to the url field if I want to initiate a search   
   >> from a browser.   
      
   > Oops.  My apologies.  I didn't realize you were trying to use   
   > seamonkey on a telephone!  I didn't even know it could run on a phone.   
      
   Actually I was talking about Firefox. I haven't found an android version   
   of Seamonkey, I don't think one exists.   
      
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   Jukka Lahtinen   
      
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