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Re: How do I get the google window back in Safari?

From Lewis <g.kreme@gmail.com.dontsendmecopies>
Newsgroups comp.sys.mac.apps
Subject Re: How do I get the google window back in Safari?
Date 2014-01-19 21:20 +0000
Organization Miskatonic U
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In message <bk2l01Fia03U1@mid.individual.net> 
  Jolly Roger <jollyroger@pobox.com> wrote:
> On 2014-01-19, Lewis <g.kreme@gmail.com.dontsendmecopies> wrote:
>> In message <bk11v2F7so5U1@mid.individual.net> 
>>   Jolly Roger <jollyroger@pobox.com> wrote:
>>> 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?
>>
>> Change? F34R!

> Probably. Pretty silly...

Considering how much better the "Awesome bar"¹ is than the old method,
what else could it be.

¹ Yeah, I know, that was Firefox's name for it.

-- 
At night when the bars close down
Brandy walks through a silent town
And loves a man who's not around

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How do I get the google window back in Safari? David Downing <david.h.downing@gmail.com> - 2014-01-17 08:50 -0800
  Re: How do I get the google window back in Safari? Ted Lee <tmplee@gmail.com> - 2014-01-17 11:06 -0600
    Re: How do I get the google window back in Safari? isw <isw@witzend.com> - 2014-01-17 09:53 -0800
      Re: How do I get the google window back in Safari? Michael Vilain <vilain@NOspamcop.net> - 2014-01-17 10:15 -0800
        Re: How do I get the google window back in Safari? nospam <nospam@nospam.invalid> - 2014-01-17 14:30 -0500
          Re: How do I get the google window back in Safari? Barry Margolin <barmar@alum.mit.edu> - 2014-01-17 16:28 -0500
    Re: How do I get the google window back in Safari? nicknaym@_remove_this_gmail.com.invalid (Nick Naym) - 2014-01-17 18:44 -0500
    Re: How do I get the google window back in Safari? Erilar <drache@chibardun.netinvalid> - 2014-01-18 15:39 +0000
      Re: How do I get the google window back in Safari? Joe Wolf Dee <joedid@email.com> - 2014-01-18 10:58 -0500
        Re: How do I get the google window back in Safari? nospam <nospam@nospam.invalid> - 2014-01-18 11:21 -0500
      Re: How do I get the google window back in Safari? Jolly Roger <jollyroger@pobox.com> - 2014-01-19 01:36 +0000
        Re: How do I get the google window back in Safari? Erilar <drache@chibardun.netinvalid> - 2014-01-19 02:56 +0000
          Re: How do I get the google window back in Safari? Jolly Roger <jollyroger@pobox.com> - 2014-01-19 04:17 +0000
            Re: How do I get the google window back in Safari? Lewis <g.kreme@gmail.com.dontsendmecopies> - 2014-01-19 09:01 +0000
              Re: How do I get the google window back in Safari? Jolly Roger <jollyroger@pobox.com> - 2014-01-19 18:48 +0000
                Re: How do I get the google window back in Safari? Lewis <g.kreme@gmail.com.dontsendmecopies> - 2014-01-19 21:20 +0000
            Re: How do I get the google window back in Safari? Barry Margolin <barmar@alum.mit.edu> - 2014-01-19 14:14 -0500
              Re: How do I get the google window back in Safari? nospam <nospam@nospam.invalid> - 2014-01-19 15:47 -0500
            Re: How do I get the google window back in Safari? Erilar <drache@chibardun.netinvalid> - 2014-01-19 22:32 +0000
              Re: How do I get the google window back in Safari? Barry Margolin <barmar@alum.mit.edu> - 2014-01-20 02:22 -0500
                Re: How do I get the google window back in Safari? nospam <nospam@nospam.invalid> - 2014-01-20 04:00 -0500
                Re: How do I get the google window back in Safari? Erilar <drache@chibardun.netinvalid> - 2014-01-20 15:27 +0000
                Re: How do I get the google window back in Safari? Tim Streater <timstreater@greenbee.net> - 2014-01-20 15:42 +0000
                Re: How do I get the google window back in Safari? erilar <drache@chibardun.net.invalid> - 2014-01-20 15:50 -0600
                Re: How do I get the google window back in Safari? nospam <nospam@nospam.invalid> - 2014-01-20 10:45 -0500
                Re: How do I get the google window back in Safari? Jolly Roger <jollyroger@pobox.com> - 2014-01-20 18:29 +0000
                Re: How do I get the google window back in Safari? Barry Margolin <barmar@alum.mit.edu> - 2014-01-20 13:59 -0500
                Re: How do I get the google window back in Safari? Jolly Roger <jollyroger@pobox.com> - 2014-01-20 19:40 +0000
                Re: How do I get the google window back in Safari? Tim Streater <timstreater@greenbee.net> - 2014-01-20 19:09 +0000
                Re: How do I get the google window back in Safari? Jolly Roger <jollyroger@pobox.com> - 2014-01-20 19:40 +0000
                Re: How do I get the google window back in Safari? nospam <nospam@nospam.invalid> - 2014-01-20 14:58 -0500
                Re: How do I get the google window back in Safari? Barry Margolin <barmar@alum.mit.edu> - 2014-01-20 15:53 -0500
                Re: How do I get the google window back in Safari? nospam <nospam@nospam.invalid> - 2014-01-20 16:28 -0500
                Re: How do I get the google window back in Safari? Tim Streater <timstreater@greenbee.net> - 2014-01-20 23:13 +0000
                Re: How do I get the google window back in Safari? Jolly Roger <jollyroger@pobox.com> - 2014-01-21 01:53 +0000
                Re: How do I get the google window back in Safari? nospam <nospam@nospam.invalid> - 2014-01-20 14:58 -0500
                Re: How do I get the google window back in Safari? Lewis <g.kreme@gmail.com.dontsendmecopies> - 2014-01-22 08:30 +0000
                Re: How do I get the google window back in Safari? Tim Streater <timstreater@greenbee.net> - 2014-01-22 10:50 +0000
                Re: How do I get the google window back in Safari? Barry Margolin <barmar@alum.mit.edu> - 2014-01-22 10:23 -0500
                Re: How do I get the google window back in Safari? Jolly Roger <jollyroger@pobox.com> - 2014-01-22 16:19 +0000
                Re: How do I get the google window back in Safari? Jolly Roger <jollyroger@pobox.com> - 2014-01-22 16:18 +0000
                Re: How do I get the google window back in Safari? Jolly Roger <jollyroger@pobox.com> - 2014-01-22 16:21 +0000
                Re: How do I get the google window back in Safari? Tim Streater <timstreater@greenbee.net> - 2014-01-22 16:39 +0000
                Re: How do I get the google window back in Safari? Jolly Roger <jollyroger@pobox.com> - 2014-01-22 16:47 +0000
                Re: How do I get the google window back in Safari? Tim Streater <timstreater@greenbee.net> - 2014-01-22 17:06 +0000
                Re: How do I get the google window back in Safari? Michelle Steiner <michelle@michelle.org> - 2014-01-22 16:56 -0700
                Re: How do I get the google window back in Safari? Jolly Roger <jollyroger@pobox.com> - 2014-01-23 00:12 +0000
                Re: How do I get the google window back in Safari? "D.F. Manno" <dfmanno@mail.com> - 2014-01-20 16:11 -0500
                Re: How do I get the google window back in Safari? nospam <nospam@nospam.invalid> - 2014-01-20 16:28 -0500
                Re: How do I get the google window back in Safari? Jolly Roger <jollyroger@pobox.com> - 2014-01-21 01:52 +0000
                Re: How do I get the google window back in Safari? Kevin McMurtrie <mcmurtrie@pixelmemory.us> - 2014-01-20 18:05 -0800
                Re: How do I get the google window back in Safari? Jolly Roger <jollyroger@pobox.com> - 2014-01-21 02:20 +0000
                Re: How do I get the google window back in Safari? Kevin McMurtrie <mcmurtrie@pixelmemory.us> - 2014-01-20 22:49 -0800
                Re: How do I get the google window back in Safari? Jolly Roger <jollyroger@pobox.com> - 2014-01-21 14:00 +0000
                Re: How do I get the google window back in Safari? Lewis <g.kreme@gmail.com.dontsendmecopies> - 2014-01-22 08:45 +0000
                Re: How do I get the google window back in Safari? billy@MIX.COM - 2014-01-24 18:31 +0000
                Re: How do I get the google window back in Safari? nospam <nospam@nospam.invalid> - 2014-01-20 21:37 -0500
                Re: How do I get the google window back in Safari? Jolly Roger <jollyroger@pobox.com> - 2014-01-21 02:52 +0000
                Re: How do I get the google window back in Safari? nospam <nospam@nospam.invalid> - 2014-01-21 04:46 -0500
                Re: How do I get the google window back in Safari? Jolly Roger <jollyroger@pobox.com> - 2014-01-21 14:21 +0000
                Re: How do I get the google window back in Safari? erilar <drache@chibardun.net.invalid> - 2014-01-20 15:47 -0600
                Re: How do I get the google window back in Safari? Jolly Roger <jollyroger@pobox.com> - 2014-01-21 01:46 +0000
                Re: How do I get the google window back in Safari? nospam <nospam@nospam.invalid> - 2014-01-20 21:37 -0500
                Re: How do I get the google window back in Safari? Jolly Roger <jollyroger@pobox.com> - 2014-01-21 02:41 +0000
                Re: How do I get the google window back in Safari? nospam <nospam@nospam.invalid> - 2014-01-20 21:43 -0500
                Re: How do I get the google window back in Safari? Jolly Roger <jollyroger@pobox.com> - 2014-01-21 02:55 +0000
                Re: How do I get the google window back in Safari? Barry Margolin <barmar@alum.mit.edu> - 2014-01-21 10:39 -0500
                Re: How do I get the google window back in Safari? "D.F. Manno" <dfmanno@mail.com> - 2014-01-21 22:07 -0500
                Re: How do I get the google window back in Safari? Jim Jaeger <jimjaeger@example.com> - 2014-01-20 22:28 -0800
                Re: How do I get the google window back in Safari? Lewis <g.kreme@gmail.com.dontsendmecopies> - 2014-01-22 08:41 +0000
                Re: How do I get the google window back in Safari? dempson@actrix.gen.nz (David Empson) - 2014-01-21 12:20 +1300
                Re: How do I get the google window back in Safari? isw <isw@witzend.com> - 2014-01-20 10:15 -0800
                Re: How do I get the google window back in Safari? billy@MIX.COM - 2014-01-24 17:41 +0000
                Re: How do I get the google window back in Safari? nospam <nospam@nospam.invalid> - 2014-01-25 19:49 -0500

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