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From: Jolly Roger <jollyroger@pobox.com>
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.apps
Subject: Re: How do I get the google window back in Safari?
Date: 19 Jan 2014 04:17:39 GMT
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On 2014-01-19, Erilar <drache@chibardun.netinvalid> wrote:
> Jolly Roger <jollyroger@pobox.com> wrote:
>> On 2014-01-18, Erilar <drache@chibardun.netinvalid> wrote:
>>> Ted Lee <tmplee@gmail.com> wrote:
>>>> On 1/17/14, 10:50 AM, David Downing wrote:
>>>>> I just installed Mavericks and the new version of Safari seems to not
>>>>> have one feature the previous one did -- the search field in the upper
>>>>> right of the browser screen that lets you search google. Is this gone
>>>>> now or is there a way to get it back?
>>>> 
>>>> The search field has been combined with the URL field.  If you put
>>>> in what looks like a URL, it will try to open that.  If you put in
>>>> anything else it will do a search.  (There's a pick-list in the
>>>> Safari general preferences to select among Google, Yahoo, or Bing
>>>> as the default search engine.)   If you put quotes around a URL you
>>>> enter in that field, it'll search for that rather than open it.  I
>>>> like this new feature, except when I use another machine that
>>>> hasn't been updated and find myself entering a search term into the
>>>> URL field.
>>>> 
>>> That really sounds like another downgrade to me!
>> 
>> Can you explain you think so?
>
> Every "simplification" or "improvement" I see described about this system
> strikes me as taking control away from the user, as has been happening in
> both software and hardware. Instead of allowing choces or being able to
> control settings on a sliding scale, we are now dumped into discrete slots
> that allow of little to no variance.  Plrase explain to me how this is an
> advantage for any but the hapless.

What is it about this particular change that you consider a step
backward?

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