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Old 27-10-2006, 19:00   #38
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Re: Firefox 2 - out tomorrow
Installed it earlier (cleanly after backing up my bookmarks etc.), then whacked on the excellent Adblock Plus & NoScript.

I like it so far.


Only thing I wasn't keen on was how they've changed the location bar search - if you enter keywords in the location bar, & hit enter/Go, it no longer does a Google "I'm Feeling Lucky" search, but does a "Browse By Name" search instead.

As I'm now very used to the old method, I did a quick Google & found a solution:

http://www.obsess.com/2006/09/29/fee...-in-firefox-2/

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Anyway, I’m not sure if I like it yet. In principle it does seem like a good idea, and I’m going to leave it alone for a bit to see if I can get used to it. If you can’t, though, it’s easy enough to fix: just go to about:config and change the keyword.URL property from its default value,

http://www.google.com/search?ie=UTF-...ient&gfns=1&q=

to something like

http://www.google.com/search?ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&btnI=&q=

which should restore the “I’m Feeling Lucky” functionality and get you back to normal.
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