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"
-- 
Lindsay
http://blackpaw.jalbum.net/home




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