| No more "i'm feeling lucky" | Skunk | 11/30/08 10:49 PM | Hey guys, Using chrome version 0.4.154.25 In Firefox (up until v3) typing a search directly into the address resulted in a "i'm feeling lucky" google search. That functionality is lost with the new "smart address bar" (which is cool i guess). I'd l |
| Re: No more "i'm feeling lucky" | Del | 12/1/08 12:07 PM | You actually can make the "I'm feeling lucky" your default search if you want you just have to go through a few steps. 1.)Open the Options Menu (Wrench>>Options) 2.) In the "Default Search:" section click on the "Manage" button 3.) Click the "Add" bu |
| Re: No more "i'm feeling lucky" | Del | 12/1/08 12:48 PM | Also, if you don't want this to be your default search engine you can still use Lucky search from the address bar. Follow the steps as listed above except skip steps 7 & 8. Remember what you made the Keyword field in step 4. Now you can use that sear |
| Re: No more "i'm feeling lucky" | Skunk | 12/10/08 1:08 PM | thanks! nice power tip! Also, is there anywhere that breaks down the 'standard' google has for the extra 'code' behind the "http://www.google.com"? Idk what you'd call that, but it would be very useful to know. |
| Re: No more "i'm feeling lucky" | Lance 57 | 5/2/09 4:25 PM | What about something similar for google maps? So you could use the keyword "map", press tab, and perform a google maps search. Any idea what the URL for that would be? |
| Re: No more "i'm feeling lucky" | halo_bone | 9/16/09 1:24 AM | Hey that's pretty cool. That was my favourite part of Firefox, now I have zero reason to use it except for web design compatibility issues. I'd say it should be default, but it's not something everyone is used to doing (almost like aol keywords) so |
| Re: No more "i'm feeling lucky" | halo_bone | 9/16/09 1:26 AM | Err actually it's because it's bringing up auto-fills. It doesn't bring up the 'to search google' hint until I space or backspace, because that's when it realizes I don't want to go to the g____.com suggestion that's at the top of the list. =) |
| Re: No more "i'm feeling lucky" | mikelikespie | 11/10/09 12:21 PM | I'd like to build on Del's answer a bit. The firefox behaviour (at least in 3.5) doesn't always use I'm feeling lucky, at least if there's not an obvious result... This is the search string firefox uses: http://www.google.com/search?ie=UTF-8&oe=UT |
| Re: No more "i'm feeling lucky" | dwight.stegall | 2/23/10 9:54 PM | Google I'm Feeling Lucky! As Default Search Engine The following is for Windows users. It might be different for other Operating Systems. Google Chrome & Chromium 1. Right-click the address bar and click on "Edit search engines...". 2. Click the A |
| Re: No more "i'm feeling lucky" | intenz | 8/12/10 1:54 PM | Thank you so much Del! |
| Re: No more "i'm feeling lucky" | Shideh | 4/20/11 10:59 PM | Very simple: when you're on the search page. the second one you've been directed to by smart search. next to the search box. there's something that says INSTANT IS ON. simply turn that off. and from now every time you want to search something it woul |