"Make everything as simple as possible, but no simpler."

-Someone in Management at Microsoft should have said this before Internet Explorer was released without a Search box.

Noel Carboni wrote:

 

"Make everything as simple as possible, but no simpler."

 

-Someone in Management at Microsoft should have said this before Internet Explorer was released without a Search box.

Just curious:  I assume you are talking about IE9.  What don't you like about being able to enter your search criteria in the same field as a URL?

acresofgreen wrote:

Just curious:  I assume you are talking about IE9.  What don't you like about being able to enter your search criteria in the same field as a URL?

I like being able to follow links down rabbit holes, then do a slightly modified search by changing things or adding a word or whatever and submitting a new search.  In IE9, with just the one box, the terms originally entered are long gone as they have been replaced by a URL.  And in my mind a URL and a search string are two fundamentally different things.

But I've found a pretty good workaround.  I'm not normally one to like Toolbars, but there's one called the Quero Toolbar that you can mostly deconfigure.  It offers not one but TWO things I like:

1.  The abilty to keep a separate search box open, with the last used search terms in it (not to mention a history control allowing me to see prior searches).

2.  An actual title in the IE9 Title bar.  Without this the page title doesn't show up anywhere if you don't like tabbed browsing (I have turned tabs off).  Microsoft clearly never thought their "clean title bar" design change all the way through.

Firefox has a separate search box, Safari has a separate search box.  These are the "other major browsers".

I don't know about Google Chrome as I don't have any love for Google software.

-Noel

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