Quick Search box in Safari 6.0

My safari 6.0 browser used to have the google quick search box on the right side and it had disappeared. does anyone know how to get it back?

Thank you. I just tested that out and it did do the google search. however, i believe the way it used to work was that when you put in a search in the box on the right, it opened a new tab automatically. Now, I need to hit the plus to open a new tab before doing the search. do you know what the setting is to open a new tab with a new search? Thanks a lot and you did solve my initial question.

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Am I correct in thinking this? And, if I am, is there any way of tweeking Safari to use the UK version please?
I'm using Safari 5.0.5

If you want to fix your Google search to a specific Google location, I recommend that you download and install the free plug-in Glims:
http://www.machangout.com/
which not only does that but much more equally useful stuff! Such as enabling Safari to run full-screen, and more.)
(It adds items to Safari Preferences).
Not only does it already list a number of search engines and regions, but you can also add any other search engine not already listed in Glims by using the method described here:
http://www.machangout.com/tutorials/addsearchengine
Just enter the name you give the search engine in the name field, and the URL for it in the Query URL field.

Separate search box instead of this stinking "new address/search box in safari 6 .

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Just installed Adobe Reader X a couple of days ago (Windows 7, x64). I used it for numerous online documents (in Firefox), while searching for some specific terms in each document. After a while the reader presented a strange picture, not properly painting itself anymore. Then, the reader became unresponsive, and Firefox too, and I had to kill the task.
This happened a few times on different pdf documents.
In my programming career things like these have happened more often so, when the behavior happened again, I went checking the process using Windows Task Manager, adding a few extra columns (Handles, User Objects, GDI Objects) and found that the number of GDI objects was nearly 10000, the absolute limit that Windows imposes on any single process.
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Then started using the quick search box (Ctrl-F) and repeatedly looked for something trivial (e.g. just a single letter A) - Bingo! Now the GDI handle count starts rising seriously, and does not come back to the original level.
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How do I enable The Google Quick Search Box feature?

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I'd likely use Spotlight or the google widget in Dashboard, although I usually stick with highlighting a word to search for, then ctrl-click & pick 'search with google'.
QSB development seems to have ceased in 2010, and it was still 'beta' software then.
http://www.alfredapp.com/ seems popular with some, and is in the app store.

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Typing Postcode In Google Search Box Locked Safari!

Last night my wife was addressing an envelope, but the name of the road she had been given was somewhat illegible so I typed the Postcode into the Google search box to find out the exact name.
To my surprise, an "error" page appeared saying that it appeared that my computer was trying to do something illegal . . . . . . . it might have a virus or spyware . . . . . . . or might be sending off some of these multiple messages (I can't remember the precise wording).
I was given one of those boxes with funny shaped characters to copy in order to unlock my internet connection.
Out of curiosity I tried another postcode, with the same result.
However, this time, typing the strange characters did not work, but I was able to unlock my connection by deleting the Google cookies from my Safari preferences.
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It's not a virus. They probably want you to purchase security software. Nothing to be concerned about.
Also, if that happens again, besides deleting cookies, from your Safari menu bar click Safari / Preferences then select the Autofill tab. Click the Edit button next to *Other forms*
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Google search box in Safari not displaying matches

Hello,
I just did the latest Software Update on both my MacBook Pro and iMac (the update was a new iTunes--version 10.3). I'm not sure why this is happening, but when I use the Google search box (located in the upper-right corner of the Safari window), I no longer see a list of possible matches to what I'm typing. Both of my computers now do not display them, yet it has always done this in the past.
Does anyone have a solution to this, or do you know what happened?
Thank you very much.

My guess is Google did something wrong, figured it out and fixed it. The suggestions feature went away in Safari for Google, but not for bing, and continued to work in Firefox. It is all fixed this morning. I happened to be using Google when it stopped functioning, it had nothing to do with updates to the Mac, since as it went south I restarted in an earlier Snow Leopard version and discovered it was not working there either. So it was a Google action that caused the mishap, nothing that Apple did. Anyway, all's well now.
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Make google.co.uk default in search box in safari

I was hoping that by version 4 of safari we really should be able to change the search engine in the search box. I am happy with it searching google but it searches google.com not google.co.uk!
This is such a simple thing, but leaves anyone outside of the US with an unusable feature.
Apple seems to neglect the non USA customers generally, such as with the US english dictionary.
Anyone have any suggestions or know how to make a request to apple?

HI,
Try here.
http://www.macosxhints.com/article.php?story=2009032004345842
If the information in that link doesn't help, you can use the GoogleUK page. Just Bookmark it or add to your Bookmark bar.
http://www.google.co.uk/
You can use Apple Feedback here.
http://www.apple.com/feedback/macosx.html
Carolyn

Recent searches will not clear from the search box in Safari

Hi,
I've been trying to get my recent searches to clear in Safari from the search box at the right corner of the browsing window. So far, I have tried the following:
1. "Clear recent searches" in the menu that appears when you click on the magnifying glass.
2. Changing my preferences not to auto fill other forms (after deleting everything that was already listed as auto-fill).
3. Deleting Google cookies (since I use the Google search in that search box).
4. Clearing the history.
5. Emptying the cache.
6. Resetting Safari entirely.
7. Throwing .plist files for Google and Safari into the trash (and restarting after all of these).
8. Completely dumping all Safari files and the application in the trash and then reinstalling Safari.
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Safari/ Search Box/ Keyboard Arrows

It seems the last 10.5 update changed Safari's functionality with the keyboard arrows... Previously these arrows worked as they do in most text applications which speeds up navigation through text. Presently use of keyboard arrows inside the Search box of Safari will instead jump into a menu of recent user searches....
Is there a way to revert to the ordinary use of keyboard-arrows?
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It seems then the only answer is to stop using built-in-google search and instead make a preferred book mark (on safari Bar) for a search engine which allows standard text-uses during searches.
Not sure which other search engines are worthy--
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Who Decided to Combine the Search Box and Address Bar?

A very wise person once said:
"Make everything as simple as possible, but no simpler!"
That fundamental rule of design has been volated with Internet Explorer 9.
I've been using IE9 for about a month now, trying to get used to all the new things. Performance-wise it's nice, and the changes to security are welcome. Okay, so the color-management is half baked, and it still has its problems, but I guess
it's an improvement.
But what idiot decided to make the search box and the address field one and the same?
You think I'm being petty? Go try to research what a particular file is - for example, go see if you can find info on "bib.dll".
It wants to make it into a URL. It's not a URL. It may LOOK like one, but it's a name, honest!
Putting quotes around it doesn't help. Maybe I'm missing the advanced syntax it takes to get such a thing to be a search term instead of a URL. Even if so, how is this an improvement or simplification? It's certainly not intuitively obvious how
to force a search, short of dredging up a link to Google and typing info in there directly.
Doing a search and typing in an address are two FUNDAMENTALLY DIFFERENT THINGS.
And hey, it's not a big deal that you can no longer see what it was you searched for, and maybe even edit it and search again. No, because now the search engine pages have to waste space to put up a box showing what you just searched for, since it's
now GONE out of the address field.
How does stuff like this pass a design review?
And to think the Microsoft Engineers worked extra hard to take it out.
You Engineers at Microsoft need to take the product back from your moronic marketing people and make it actually work right.
-Noel

Ed, with 36 years software engineering experience, I know the difference between the difficulty of adapting to change and when something just isn't right.
This isn't right. Ever hear the phrase "apples and oranges" to describe two things that don't go together? That concept fits well here.
You say that thinking along the lines of "you no longer had to think about which box you want to type into" helped justify the change.
Is there something wrong with thinking? This is akin to saying, "you no longer had to think about which nozzle at the gas station to fill your tank from".
Diesel doesn't work in a gas engine. Nor does the water from the garden hose.
You say "both methods of typing work in the one box". But they don't, logically! Did you actually read this thread?
Is there something wrong with logic?
Alas, what the simple users of the general public want and what experienced computer users need are clearly two different things, and it's clear looking back that this move simply marked another step in Microsoft's clear intent
to walk away from making serious computer operating systems that actually
work. Windows 8 is testament to that (and don't tell me you haven't noticed all the negative response). Other such things include Windows Search - which is designed to be unable to actually do an exhaustive search... Even going
back as far as hiding file extensions by default. And don't get me started on the use of telemetry to justify deprecating such things as Windows Backup.
Do you understand the difference between leading and following? Which, as a concept, would you say is better? You need to stay the hell away from trying to emulate what Google does. You can do better! If you want a different
example, follow Firefox - it still has a search box. Even Apple - known for dumbing things down to the level of the family dog - stil puts a search box in Safari.
I don't mean to be critical of your response, Ed, but this is a good example of "the operation was a success but the patient died".
Thank goodness there are 3rd party developers who are struggling to put back functionality Microsoft keeps removing. But then Microsoft removes the APIs they use. That's not going to keep!
P.S., Watch the film "Idiocracy" some time.
-Noel
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