| How do I disable google instant permanently. | Jamet | 1/10/11 12:27 PM | How do I disable google instant permanently. I have tryed to turn it off at the search bar and in the settings but it reset itself when I exit the browser. I have Window XP. |
| Re: How do I disable google instant permanently. | bluequoll | 1/10/11 3:18 PM | Google Search Settings are cookie based. Make sure that browser cookies are enabled and are not being deleted, either manually or by browser, operating system or security settings. |
| Re: How do I disable google instant permanently. | techylad | 1/11/11 3:55 AM | There is no way yet without "cookies", but the following may help you. IE8 Fix 1: Add http://www.google.com or http://www.google.co.<tld> (your local google site) to your IE8' restricted zone sites by clicking Tools->Internet Options and "security |
| Re: How do I disable google instant permanently. | bluequoll | 1/11/11 1:58 PM | An easier way to avoid both Google Instant and Autocomplete is to search from http://www.google.com/webhp?complete=0. |
| Re: How do I disable google instant permanently. | dmrctc | 1/24/11 12:03 PM | Why have Google introduced "instants" ? It is a complete pain and slows down the search experience tremendously. Listen to what people are saying Google. Remember Britain lost an empire by not listening. |
| Re: How do I disable google instant permanently. | MitchellGrundsack | 4/23/11 1:51 PM | I am a heavy Google user and still despise instant. What a terrible, terrible feature. Google is losing touch with what made it a great startup. Instant crap, buzz, sacrificing natural search for more ad clicks (to satisfy shareholders), etc. Keep up |
| Re: How do I disable google instant permanently. | Lairbear | 5/8/11 9:30 AM | Readers, Go to the Google web page. Select the "Options" icon in the upper right hand corner of the window......looks like the "Star" key symbol. Open the options and select Search Settings. On the lower left side of the window, look for "Google In |
| Re: How do I disable google instant permanently. | tazjobs | 5/12/11 12:33 PM | Instant SEARCH SUCKS!. I hate it. Sometimes I use to cut and paste parts of a search and combine to create a new but as soon as you try to do this with the new Instant your search instantly changes. Instant search is also slow. If Google does not |
| Re: How do I disable google instant permanently. | Padge | 5/12/11 12:53 PM | I hate what Google has become. Once upon a time, you could count on Google to provide you with a lean, no-nonsense, feature-free web searching experience. But now Google has piled useless feature atop useless feature, with the exception of one that i |
| Re: How do I disable google instant permanently. | claychilde | 5/19/11 2:14 PM | The simple solution is to follow Lairbear advice and change search settings - no more Instant. |
| Re: How do I disable google instant permanently. | srplus | 5/23/11 8:16 AM | claychilde says that following Lairbear advise is the answer. Nice try but Google always defaults to Google instant despite every effort I make including saving all Google cookies and protecting them every time I restart the browser. Would it be that |
| Re: How do I disable google instant permanently. | claychilde | 5/24/11 11:59 PM | Well, turning it off in settings apparently DOES work - but not for everyone it seems. As far as my experience of it goes, when it's off it stays off, both for desktop and mobile and doesn't default to Instant when I log out/in. Maybe Google has got |
| Re: How do I disable google instant permanently. | SloppyLoppy | 6/14/11 8:30 AM | http://www.google.ca/intl/en/options/ I set my home page this and NO MORE SUGGESTIONS or INSTANT SEARCHES WOO HOO!!!! Seriously, I just completed this action using Opera 11.11 and removed ALL Google Apps as I only use them on my VM. Good luck |
| Re: How do I disable google instant permanently. | nospamforyou | 7/3/11 5:44 AM | Instant searches are the reason why I abandoned Google and start using another search engine. Instant seraches are paternalistic, stupid and useless. The default should be "do not use instant". But the default is to use that crap. You can disable thi |
| Re: How do I disable google instant permanently. | b10nary | 7/7/11 11:03 AM | you can easily turn off instant its right on the instant page that tells you even after turning it off in browser prefs from the wrench you still have to go to http://www.google.com/preferences and deselect google instant and it never comes back, if |
| Re: How do I disable google instant permanently. | Sojourn98 | 7/8/11 1:56 AM | Follow Lairbear's instructions. So easy & worked like a charm for me. Hope you have the same positive results. |
| Re: How do I disable google instant permanently. | MHand | 7/13/11 5:54 PM | For those using FireFox who are unwilling to turn off cookies and do not want to block Java from Google or change their homepage as a dodge, there is a nice way to disable instant using the add-on AdBlock Plus that I found on another forum. First yo |
| Re: How do I disable google instant permanently. | AndyCarloff | 7/15/11 6:48 AM | None of it works. GoogleInstant saves itself like it's saving a Session_ID, which means it works completely unlike every other preference, which is saved on the server, and not the client. Going from computer A to B retains all my e-mails, search h |
| Re: How do I disable google instant permanently. | BholaBhala | 7/17/11 3:42 PM | For GOD"s SAKE Google..... this 'instant search' feature SUCKS and its major pain in the rear. Get rid of rid, before users start getting rid of you |
| Re: How do I disable google instant permanently. | jacobmj | 7/28/11 12:03 PM | Yes, the search settings provides a means of disabling google instant. Unfortunately, it continually reverts back! I am logged in, and use Firefox. Is there some rational explanation for this? Using a fast computer, it's simply annoying to have |
| Re: How do I disable google instant permanently. | Osama Khathlan | 7/30/11 3:35 AM | You can disable it from here:http://www.google.com/preferences |
| Re: How do I disable google instant permanently. | wewa | 8/8/11 9:17 AM | I am using Google Chrome v13 on XP.Everytime I close and open Chrome, all my preference settings are gone.I have to disable safe search, instant, and 10 search results back to 20. Is this a chrome bug, or deliberate ploy by google.I know instant help |
| Re: How do I disable google instant permanently. | awdrifter3 | 8/12/11 10:18 PM | Google Instant just would not turn off permanently on Maxthon 3. Google showed us with all the YouTube changes that they would not listen to their users. I'm switching to Bing, even though the search results are less relavant, I'd still take that ove |
| Re: How do I disable google instant permanently. | NoBackButton | 8/17/11 6:31 AM | I dont want this thread to die, especially since I continue to experience having to turn off google instant manually as I start each work day. |
| Re: How do I disable google instant permanently. | grumblinghive | 8/18/11 2:50 AM | Install firefox Install UAControl addon Restart Firefox Tools -> UAControl Options Add site: http://www.google.com Change action to custom: Google_Instant_Is_Fucking_Shit Click OK Also add any local googles affecting you like: http://www.google.co.uk Ch |
| Re: How do I disable google instant permanently. | 8888Raziel888 | 8/19/11 4:24 PM | |
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| Re: How do I disable google instant permanently. | sunnyrocks | 8/28/11 12:53 PM | |
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| Re: How do I disable google instant permanently. | nospamforyou | 10/13/11 4:18 AM | |
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| Re: How do I disable google instant permanently. | Dont Instant Search | 11/8/11 6:40 PM | |
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