Tell them all "just go away"

[venta]

Dear Google,

It's not April 1st, y'know.

Cheers,

Venta

Comments

[ewx.livejournal.com]

It's there in every Firefox I use, and I just created a fresh profile to test it and there it was. So yes, I think it is the default.

[bateleur.livejournal.com]

See venta's comment. It's because you've installed Google toolbar.

[ewx.livejournal.com]

I have not installed Google toolbar on any web browser.

[bateleur.livejournal.com]

So - when you press Ctrl-K what actually happens?

[ewx.livejournal.com]

Input focus moves to the search box at the top right. Image. You'll have to trust me that it's there in every Firefox I have, I'm not going to screenshot them all!

The google toolbar looks like this - it's a lot more than just the browser's built-in search box.

[bateleur.livejournal.com]

Oh, OK. Most peculiar.

Mine looks like this:

[onebyone.livejournal.com]

I'm pretty sure the default installation includes it in the "navigation toolbar", immediately to the right of the address bar.

[ewx.livejournal.com]

I just installed current FF in a VM that’s never had FF installed at all. I accepted the defaults and didn’t import anything from any other browser. The search box still exists l-)

[bateleur.livejournal.com]

Fair enough. This being the case, I must have some kind of setting that's carried over from an earlier version which is causing it not to appear.

Brief experimentation suggests I can have one if I want it via "configure".