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

Mon Apr 27 23:22:44 UTC 2009

Joel, i didn't even know about control E until you mentioned it. Thanks 
much.
Sherri
----- 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 5:17 PM
Subject: Re: [gui-talk] In IE 7, Control E has changed for me


>I guess I missed the part about the search provider adjustment being a
> button and a submenu on the General options tab. Sorry about that. And I
> never had paid attention to it previously when I'd been in that menu to
> change my home page. Now I get it. I still wonder what on earth inbox.com
> is, but whatever.
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "albert griffith" <albertgriffith at sbcglobal.net>
> To: "'NFBnet GUI Talk Mailing List'" <gui-talk at nfbnet.org>
> Sent: Monday, April 27, 2009 1:37 PM
> Subject: Re: [gui-talk] In IE 7, Control E has changed for me
>
>
> There's also a setting to change your search providers.  I do know what
> you're talking about.  To replicate your problem I changed mine and 
> changed
> it back again before posting my advice to you.
>
> -----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 2:15 PM
> To: NFBnet GUI Talk Mailing List
> Subject: Re: [gui-talk] In IE 7, Control E has changed for me
>
> Hi L.,
>
> No, I'm talking about something you don't seem to be familiar with. I know
> how to change my home page if I wish to, and I don't go into Control Panel
> to do that. Just into the IE Options. It's easy. I described a special 
> edit
> field you can bring up to type a search term into using the command 
> Control
> E. Now, maybe this is a Jaws 10 feature, even though the Insert key isn't
> involved, which would tip me off that it was Jaws related. But anyway, 
> it's
> not about a default search page or a home page issue, either. I think you
> and I may not be using the same programs, or ells my description would 
> have
> rung a bell immediately.
>
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "tribble" <lauraeaves at yahoo.com>
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> Sent: Monday, April 27, 2009 9:39 AM
> Subject: Re: [gui-talk] In IE 7, Control E has changed for me
>
>
> 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>
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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
> 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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