[gui-talk] In IE 7, Control E has changed for me

Chris Hallsworth christopherh40 at googlemail.com
Mon Apr 27 18:32:33 UTC 2009


It's in the general tab, under search provider settings.

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----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Nimer Jaber" <nimerjaber1 at gmail.com>
To: "NFBnet GUI Talk Mailing List" <gui-talk at nfbnet.org>
Sent: Monday, April 27, 2009 6:12 PM
Subject: Re: [gui-talk] In IE 7, Control E has changed for me


> Yes, you do have to change your default search provider. It is somewhere 
> in internet options. I am sorry I can't be of more assistance, as I am 
> currently using Linux, and not internet exploder. If you do a search for 
> changing default search provider though, I am sure you will figure it out.
>
> Thanks
> nimer J
>
> On 27/04/09 10:39, tribble wrote:
>> Hi Joel -- I didn't see any other answers to this so here goes -- If you
>> want to change your default home page (I assume that is what you mean by
>> default search provider), whatever browser you are using, you should go 
>> to
>> control panel under internet options.  Open the dialog to the general tab
>> and the first item on the list is your home page.  Enter the URL of the 
>> one
>> you want then follow the prompts to the ok button.
>> You can also get to the internet options dialog from within IE under the
>> tools menu, but some things Windows doesn't let you change when you have 
>> the
>> browser open, so I myself always use the control panel.
>> HTH
>> --le
>>
>>
>> ----- Original Message -----
>> From: "Joel Deutsch"<jdeutsch at dslextreme.com>
>> To: "NFBnet GUI Talk Mailing List"<gui-talk at nfbnet.org>
>> Sent: Monday, April 27, 2009 1:30 AM
>> Subject: Re: [gui-talk] In IE 7, Control E has changed for me
>>
>>
>> I completely forgot the instructions about how to do that. I remember
>> reading something, somewhere,a long time ago when I first installed this
>> version of IE, and I don't remember where i saw something once. In IE 
>> Help?
>> Or some other place?
>>
>> I tink I read
>> ----- Original Message -----
>> From: "albert griffith"<albertgriffith at sbcglobal.net>
>> To: "'NFBnet GUI Talk Mailing List'"<gui-talk at nfbnet.org>
>> Sent: Sunday, April 26, 2009 10:35 PM
>> Subject: Re: [gui-talk] In IE 7, Control E has changed for me
>>
>>
>> I think you'll have to change your default search provider.
>>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: gui-talk-bounces at nfbnet.org [mailto:gui-talk-bounces at nfbnet.org] On
>> Behalf Of Joel Deutsch
>> Sent: Monday, April 27, 2009 12:56 AM
>> To: GUI-Talk
>> Subject: [gui-talk] In IE 7, Control E has changed for me
>>
>> I'm accustomed to being able to bring up a Google search edit field from
>> whatever Web page I may be on by pressing Control E. And Jaws would 
>> always
>> speak that it was Google and then say "edit." Those who use IE7 know how
>> this works.
>>
>> But just recently, every time I press control E while on a Web page, it
>> takes me to a search edit function but Jaws says inbox.com search. And if 
>> I
>> go ahead and type something in and click on it (Enter or Alt Enter for a 
>> new
>>
>> tab page), the results page says inbox.com, and the results are just a
>> couple of headings instead of the way a Google results page is coded, and 
>> I
>> haven't even bothered exploring with the up and down arrow keys and the 
>> tab
>> key to see what's there that letter H navigation isn't revealing to me. I
>> just feel tricked, as if somehow the function got hijacked away from 
>> Google.
>>
>> I have no idea what inbox.com is, or how something with a name like that
>> happens to provide a search engine. And I don't care. Now, if I go to
>> Google.com, I still get the real Google search page, and everything's 
>> fine.
>>
>> But what is this inbox.com deal? Please note: I do have a respectable
>> anti-spyware program that I keep updated and run a scan with regularly.
>>
>> Thanks.
>>
>>
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