Disable auto google on mistyped urls
Lindsay Mathieson
lindsay.mathieson at gmail.com
Wed Jan 13 13:19:12 UTC 2010
On Wed, 13 Jan 2010 05:35:27 pm Thomas Olsen wrote:
> On Wednesday 13 January 2010 04:00:12 Lindsay Mathieson wrote:
> > Entering a nonexistent url in konqueror automatically does a search on
> >
> > google that a 404 page etc, this is actually a break from web standards.
> >
> > Is there any way to turn this "feature" off? I dislike intensly KDE
> > trying
> >
> > to be clever for me. I'll do my own google searches when I need it.
>
> Are you by any chance using OpenDNS? ( http://www.opendns.com )?
> I use them and I think they redirect me to google when I have mis-typed a
> URL. Haven't found a way of disabling it though.
Thanks - Snowhog from the forums had the nswer, "Right-click the 'Search field'
to the right of the URL field and click on Select Search Engines... and un-
check Enable Web shortcuts"
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Lindsay
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