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Hacking IE 5.2 To Search Google Via The Address Bar
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Anonymous Coward
on Thursday June 20, @12:18PM (#273)
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Except... Mozilla is MUCH slower on OSX than IE is. Unfortunate yes, but it's true. Mozilla is my favorite browser for features, but I've found I still run IE because of: speed opening windows, speed rendering pages, page caching in memory vs. disk (for faster back-paging), etc.
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Anonymous Coward
on Thursday June 20, @11:23AM (#281)
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Can that hack be done on Explorer 5.1 for "classic" MacOS?
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I would like to know this, too!
Under OS9.1...I opened IE using ResEdit, found the offending string and replaced it with the Google string. However, upon restart, IE would not open due to a problem the MS Internet Library (PPC)
Anyone done this hack successfully under OS9?
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by
Anonymous Coward
on Thursday June 20, @10:49AM (#286)
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I actually did that hack just after OS X came out but It never seemed to get public domain...
But anyways, the long and short is that I have a patcher program that takes all the guesswork out of it..
If anyone wants it, email me at Bus-NOSPAM-onerd@hotmail.com
Remove the -NOSPAM-
--David
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Anonymous Coward
on Thursday June 20, @10:58AM (#287)
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any google search can be saved as a bookmark in just about any browser.
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Nice work! I wasn't aware that OmniWeb had that capability.
I prefer the term shortcuts as well, there's something eerily AOLish about keyword.
Is it nodevertising if it's outside of E2?
--
it's all mine, and your woman, too
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Anonymous Coward
on Wednesday June 19, @11:55PM (#300)
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My favorite thing is that fact that the M$ 5.2 upgrade seemed to keep ALL of my prefs correct - as it should have - EXCEPT that it set my homepage to msn.com.
Those mother%$&^%$*^%*....
Does it NEVER end?
=tkk
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by
Anonymous Coward
on Thursday June 20, @10:20AM (#306)
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Mozilla searches via the address bar by default.
It uses netscape's lame search engine as the default
but that can be changed to google in the "Internet
Search" prefs.
I do all my googling from the mozilla bar now.
And yes, mozilla lets you save searches as a bookmarks as well.
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by
Anonymous Coward
on Thursday June 20, @01:53PM (#308)
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Its easier to just go to this google page and insert a link on your toolbar that opens a pop up window that you can use to search google.
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It's strange that you're posting about IE being faster rendering pages than Mozilla on MacSlash, when Gecko is demonstrably, dramatically faster rendering large, table-based layouts (i.e. Slashcode sites) than Internet Explorer. I dare you to got to Slashdot and view any large page (over 200 or so comments) in nested mode in both browsers and state with a straight face that IE renders faster.
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omniweb's text anti-aliasing is very nice but their standard's support is dismal.
as a web designer i wouldn't recommend it to anyone.
t.whid
http://www.mteww.com
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I don't know about you all, but I could live without the Google search in the location bar, if I could only customize (or improve) the look of the toolbar buttons, to make them a little more "Aqua" in appearance. I think they are aweful.
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in the search bar on the left, you can customize where the address bar "autosearch" searches.
what you cant do is set where the search bar searches to be google...
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I could already do this with IE 5.1 - just blowing my own trumpet ;-)
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by
Anonymous Coward
on Wednesday June 19, @02:18PM (#34563)
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Just type 'google whatever' into the omniweb location bar.
You can trivially define your own special cases too (useful for google phonebook: entries for example).
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Mozilla's custom keywords make this a breeze, and you're not limited to Google. Any search engine that uses HTTP post can be made into a keyword.
--
it's all mine, and your woman, too
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OmniWeb is a great user experience, but it lacks standards support. Just ask any web developer what they think. Until a site such as http://www.webstandards.org/ can recommend OmniWeb, I'll steer clear of it. But they're making an effort of it, at least it's difficult to download Netscape 4.x, because lord knows, the last thing this earth needs is a NEW Netscape 4.x user.
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by
Anonymous Coward
on Wednesday June 19, @06:05PM (#34576)
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Dave's Toolbar is the only thing that makes my Windows work box almost tolerable ...
http://notesbydave.com/toolbar/doc.htm
Search any number of HTML form sites a la google through a box in the task bar. The code is all GPL'd XML so adding these to the Mozilla keywords should be a breeze.
Does anyone know a tutorial which could add these shortcuts to the services menu?
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You're not limited to anything in OmniWeb either. OmniWeb has the ability to define aliases for anything in the address bar, which it calls shortcuts. It's just as powerful as what Mozilla can do, and easy to customise.
Over at E2, I've noded a detailed explaination on what OmniWeb's shortcuts are, how to use them, and how to create your own. You can check it out here.
Sorry for the blatant nodevertising, but I thought some of you might find it useful. Hope this is of some help.
It's what's not there that makes what's there what it is.
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