Fixed: Google Secondary Search Broken in Firefox!

3 Jul

This morning I was doing some Google Searching in Firefox. It didn’t take me long to discover that doing a second search wasn’t working. In fact, even the second-level search tools under “More Tools” won’t work either. Was Google broken? or was it Firefox?

A little experimentation led to two interesting fixes (or workarounds).  First of all, this appears to be a “Google in Firefox” issue.  IE and Chrome work fine.  So, the two fixes are:

  1. Log into your Google Account.  It seems the broken search functionality is only an issue when you are logged out (as I was).  So log into your Gmail account or any other account you may have with them and voila!  Secondary searches work again!
  2. Rather than going to http://www.google.com, instead start your search at http://74.125.43.147/  This is Google’s IP address and, for some reason when you start your session their, all subsequent searches and second-level search tools work fine.  Go figure!  If your homepages is set to Google (as mine is), be sure to change the URL in your browser options as well.

This almost appears to be a problem with Google — not Firefox — as Google search fails accross the board in multiple versions of Firefox (old and new) and on multiple operating systems, including Mac.  While we wait for Firefox to release a fix (or Google to start playing fair??  ;) ) at least this is a temporary solution.

Anyone else experience this phenomena in Firefox this morning?  Let me know if this solution fixes your broken second level searches in Firefox.

If you found this helpful, feel free to donate to my new laptop fund!  :)  

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Phone Dump

1 Jul

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More pictures from our morning walk, a pic of me and a cute one of Tiny in the sink :)

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Hero At the Door

1 Jul

Hero does this every time he sees Clark come into the room to talk to me. He just wants to be part of the conversation I suppose. We think it’s pretty cute because he’ll meow and meow until we look at him. He’s a good boy and stays at the very edge of the door. He knows he’s not allowed to waltz in – unlike Tiny who comes as far as the edge of my desk. She likes to push her limits. ;)


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New Early Morning Walks

1 Jul

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My job has me beginning work by no later than 8am. So Clark and I have been going walking at the park early (6am) and this is what we see. So beautiful and mystical, I love it! It’s also cute to see all the ducks sleeping still :)

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