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

[tribble]

Hi Joel --
Well perhaps I am not familiar with the term "default search engine" or 
whatever. I always set my home page to be a place I can search from.  But if 
I want to search while not on that page I just go back to that page to do 
the search. My question to you is, how do you use a default search engine if 
you are not on a page that has a search option? Are you talking about that 
annoying little tool that google plants in internet explorer that I can't 
seem to get away from when I don't want to see it, and which I don't 
remember ever installing?  Are there other analogous search tools that can 
do the same thing?
Now you have me curious. happy searching.
--le


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From: "Joel Deutsch" <jdeutsch at dslextreme.com>
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Subject: Re: [gui-talk] In IE 7, Control E has changed for me


Laura,

I hope not to offend by saying this, but maybe it will be helpful in order
to make communications more clear and precise about these topics in the
future.

One's choice of home page means only one thing, and that's the page that
opens when you launch Internet Explorer or, from another Web page , press
the Windows key command control Home in order to return to the home page.

that That home page, depending on your inclination, might be  a Honda
motorcycle dealership in Miami,, or it might be Amazon.com if you're an
obsessive online shopper, or certain it might be something like google.com
if you like to start with your Google page even if you really don't need to
search for something at that moment.

But that is not the same as the term "default search engine." I did not mean
anything like that, and it was incorrect to assume so. Again, home page is
its own expression, does not use the word "default" in it, and need not have
anything at all to do with search functions, unless of course that home page
happens to be google.com, which for some people it might be but not for
others, entirely a matter of choice. Anyway, these are  two different
things. I didn't misspeak. Hope that helps.

And thanks for your input.

From: "tribble" <lauraeaves at yahoo.com>
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Sent: Monday, April 27, 2009 9:39 AM
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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>
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Sent: Monday, April 27, 2009 1:30 AM
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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>
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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
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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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