A tax on IE7 Users

[baljemmett]

Nope!

I just tried that,& got the Search page again.
The directions from Google say to put in the complete URL,then press Enter,but why bother if you get the same result?

I'm not sure what you're doing exactly, but PeterG is right -- if you type a URL into the address bar in Chrome it will simply navigate to that URL, like people expect it to.  That's the only way I ever use it, as I'm too old-fashioned and set in my ways to do anything else; for searches I pull up the Google front page and go from there.

If you can't get it to work, keep an eye on the dropdown suggestions that appear as you start typing -- that might give you a clue as to why it doesn't understand what you want it to do.  Let's say you want to visit searchterm.com -- up until you type the o the first entry in the list will be "searchterm.c - Google Search", but as soon as you type the o it'll change to "searchterm.co" because it's recognised that as something that smells like a web address.  (Some quick experimentation leads me to suspect that this change happens when it recognises a valid TLD...)

[Kozmyk]

My main browser is Firefox.
I have Chrome and of course IE9(Windows updates and fallback).
Chrome doesn't get used much unless the content is Chrome specific like that Arcade Fire release last year.
Lately I have been using the "view in IE" function in FF because YouTube videos keep throwing out a second audio giving an annoying 3-4 second delay.
Not all YT vids, but every now and then.
Odd

[PeterG]

My main browser is Firefox.
I have Chrome and of course IE9(Windows updates and fallback).
Chrome doesn't get used much unless the content is Chrome specific like that Arcade Fire release last year.
Lately I have been using the "view in IE" function in FF because YouTube videos keep throwing out a second audio giving an annoying 3-4 second delay.
Not all YT vids, but every now and then.
Odd

Never had that problem with Firefox.

Regards

[SeanB]

Search from address bar comes back on with each windows update, it seems. Then again, at work I still have IE6, though it is never used, browser is Firefox.

[ivan747]

The Internet is full of crud from IE shills saying what a wonderful thing this function is!
On the other hand,there are many people who hate it,& ask how to remove it.

No! IE should not be removed! It is, after all,  a handy tool provided by Microsoft to allow Download and Installation of a browser to any new Windows installs.

No Unc!You left your specs off!

What I was talking about was removing "Search from Address Bar",which is present on both IE9 & Chrome,&
seems to delight the "Tech Savvy" Tossers !

IE9 is OK if you take that XX$%^^%$^^!!!!! thing away!
Maybe Chrome would be,too if I can find a way to do the same thing with it.

Safari still has the separate search bar. I think Firefox does too. If it doesn't there's probably a plugin.

[SeanB]

FF the separate search bar is a option in the customise bar section. Nice is that it allows multiple search engines, and you can even add your own to it as well to do a search of certain sites, like Amazon, Bing, Yahoo, Fleabay, Duckduckgo and others.

[T4P]

I still think chromium's search bar is by far the most convenient because, well i can easily search and when i'm not wrong i still get the actual webpage i was trying to go ! When i'm wrong i get the search
Well unless your network's down then obviously you'd hate the search thing but hey what's the point really, your network is already down what else can you surf ?

[Kozmyk]

My main browser is Firefox.
I have Chrome and of course IE9(Windows updates and fallback).
Chrome doesn't get used much unless the content is Chrome specific like that Arcade Fire release last year.
Lately I have been using the "view in IE" function in FF because YouTube videos keep throwing out a second audio giving an annoying 3-4 second delay.
Not all YT vids, but every now and then.
Odd

Never had that problem with Firefox.

Regards

It's an odd one for sure.
I suspect it's something gone wrong with the plug-in container system.
It appears to occur at random.

I'm hoping some FF update will fix it or maybe there's a driver that's interfering with the works that'll get updated.

FirefFox is still my browser of choice though, I know my way around it and I'd feel naked without all my plug-ins ;^)

[PeterG]

Youtube plays videos using Flash, maybe check for Flash updates.

Regards

[vk6zgo]

My main browser is Firefox.
I have Chrome and of course IE9(Windows updates and fallback).
Chrome doesn't get used much unless the content is Chrome specific like that Arcade Fire release last year.
Lately I have been using the "view in IE" function in FF because YouTube videos keep throwing out a second audio giving an annoying 3-4 second delay.
Not all YT vids, but every now and then.
Odd

I've had that happen with IE9 on odd occasions.

[vk6zgo]

I've found the trick to use the Chrome Address Bar normally:

Just type in the URL,then while your cursor is still sitting at the end of the address,press "Enter".
It works every time.

Everybody will say "Why would you move the cursor away, in the first place?"

Well,I guess it is a reflex action,as I was looking for the arrow that other browsers have,not finding it,& then trying something else.
It's still clunky as hell to "mouse click" oriented (brainwashed) people like me,but it is one answer--maybe there are others!

[Uncle Vernon]

Lately I have been using the "view in IE" function in FF because YouTube videos keep throwing out a second audio giving an annoying 3-4 second delay.
Not all YT vids, but every now and then.
Odd

Are you guys sure you're not clicking through to a youtube from the vid and still leaving the embedded link running?  For example in Firefox, Eevblog vids if clicked, will launch you tube in a new tab or window but will continue to run from the blog site too.

[PeterG]

Every time i click on an embedded youtube link, it opens the youtube video on the youtube site and stops the embedded video on eevblog page. I have never had them both run at the same time.

Same for other sites with embedded youtube videos.

Regards

[Kozmyk]

There's now a recognised issue between the current FireFox and Flash 11.3.
The temporary fix is to down grade flash to either 11.2 or 10.3 and then wait for the official fix/update.
10.3 apparently has the advantage of having all the security issues sorted whereas 11.2 doesn't.

http://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/flash-113-crashes

I had just done this when my line went down (copper fault) so I haven't had the chance to try it out yet.