On 17/12/2011 20:33, David in Normandy wrote:
On 17/12/2011 15:33, Janet Tweedy wrote:
In , Jake
writes
It may be an issue for some people. I use Chrome most of the time but
I've found, e.g., that IE is more reliable when I'm doing my online
tax return, provided I use IE7. IE8 and IE9 don't work.


The new version or maybe a new version of Google is annoying me quite
deeply at the moment.
If I type anything into the search window at the top the browser goes
off to find stuff before I have even finished which is really
distracting! AND for some reason i have a time lag as i type in the text
since upgrading rather like the olden days when the computer had to
catch up with watch you were keyboarding

and NO i don't want google's idea of "relevant" to what i might be
searching for - it never is

That is one advantage of using Firefox with NoScript. I don't allow
Google permission to run scripts, thus I can type the whole search
expression in without it harassing me with irrelevant information.

Yes, I also use NoScript to stop Google's scripts. But Google's
continuous fiddling with the code has finally seen me dump Google for
StartPage:
https://eu.startpage.com/

Advanced search:
https://eu.startpage.com/eng/advanced-search.html

It uses Google, but doesn't disclose who is searching for what, and
there is none of that messing around.

Give it a try. If it isn't for you, try something else.

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Jeff