Safari 6 encrypted search bar causing problems

I don't care if my search is encrypted or not, but it seems that Safari cares. I think this is new. I don't remember it being encrypted before, but maybe that's because I hadn't paid attention before my problem developed. I'm using Safari 6.1.4 on a MBP and I don't particularly remember an update lately, but this problem is new, within the last week or maybe two weeks.
The problem: when I try to use Safari's address bar/ search bar to search for a term in quotation marks— "John Doe" for instance— because I want only search results with that name, not all the instances where John and Doe happen to be on the same page—Safari switches the search to the html, written out exactly like this, no kidding: "john doe" (and then helps me with my obviously awful spelling!) and I get search results involving not just any instance of john and any instance of doe—because they're not in quotation marks anymore!!—but also the word quote, so that I get results primarily involving quotations!!! where the words I searched for are on the page.
When I click on the little https symbol, thinking this is the problem and maybe I can turn off the encryption, the popup tells me that "Safari is using an encrypted connection to search.yahoo.com" (my preferred search engine). And doesn't offer me a way to stop this. I presume this is what's causing the problem, but again I'm not positive.
The only workaround is to go to Yahoo and re-do the search on the site instead of up above, which means that cute combined address bar/ search bar is now useless for exact searches (with the quotation marks).
Is this Apple trying to protect me from myself?
Can I tell Safari to relax about it and get it to go back to working properly?
Or is this a bug? A new "feature" I don't understand? Something else entirely?

From the Safari menu bar, select
Safari ▹ Preferences... ▹ Extensions
Turn all extensions OFF and test. If the problem is resolved, turn extensions back ON and then disable them one or a few at a time until you find the culprit.

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I've tried many possible solutions, what appears to work best as of now is to DESELECT Enable suspicious activity protection (making sure Deny outgoing suspicious traffic and Deny incoming suspicious traffic are deselected) under Protection Settings in Norton Personal Firewall Version 3.0 (48).
One could try deselecting something similar in any firewall application other than Norton Personal Firewall Version 3.0 (48), to see if it is suspicious activity settings in firewalls that cause the problem.
Any comments/feedbacks are extremely welcome.
Hope It Helps!
iMac G4 800Mhz SD 10.3.9 & PowerBook G4 15" 1 Ghz 10.3.9
iMac G4 800Mhz SD
iMac G4 800Mhz SD
iMac G4 800Mhz SD
iMac G4 800Mhz SD
iMac G4 800Mhz SD

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