[PLUG] Has Google taken over browser settings?

John Jason Jordan johnxj at comcast.net
Sun Jan 22 04:36:21 UTC 2012


On Sat, 21 Jan 2012 19:14:29 -0800
Rogan Creswick <creswick at gmail.com> dijo:

>> Is this another usurpation of the web by the giant that I love to
>> hate? Has anyone else noticed this? Or is it my fault again?
>
>See Chris's message for placing blame where it's due, and for the
>record, this is a change I actually like (although I'm a full-time
>chrome user, which behaves similarly).
>
>The workaround (tested in ff):  press <ctrl>-enter instead of <enter>
>
>The fix: (also in Firefox)
>
>Open about:config, click "Yes I'll be careful, type "keyword.enabled"
>into the search box in the about:config *page*, click on the
>keyword.enabled line so it is set to false.

Yay!

Thanks for finding the fix!

And yes, I know Google does a lot of great stuff that benefits me and
everyone else, inside and outside of the open source community. But
their power scares me. However, that is a discussion for PLUG-talk, so
I'll shut up about it now.



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