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On Thu, Feb 9, 2012 at 8:48 AM, Joseph <syscon780@×××××.com> wrote: |
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> On 02/09/12 09:30, Michael Hampicke wrote: |
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>>> |
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>>> You are right on; I disable Java in firefox and now can open links in |
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>>> google search. |
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>> |
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>> As I said, I have disabled cookies and javascript for goolge.de (using |
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>> cookiemonster an noscript). But as I sometimes use google maps, I allow |
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>> javascript on google.com and then use google.com for maps - with cookies |
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>> disalbed. And here I have the same issue as you have, I cannot open the |
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>> links, but the strange thing is: it's not all the time, sometimes it |
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>> works, sometimes it does not. |
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>> |
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>> Who knows what google guys were doing. Maybe they left a screw driver in |
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>> there or something :) |
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>> |
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> |
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> I just got a hint from Gentoo forum. It seems to me others got hit by the |
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> same issue. |
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> ----quote------ |
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> Google is getting crappier and crappier by the day. What happened to the |
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> lean, mean, simple search engine that everyone fell in love with? Now |
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> they're just bloating it with unnecessary javascript crap. |
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> Hmm, one idea: Do you accept cookies from google? I don't. If you don't |
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> either, try activating them and see if it works then. |
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> ------end quote------ |
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> |
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> I'm switching to Bing search engine. It seems to me Google is getting evil |
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> now. |
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I very much like DuckDuckGo. It uses Bing as its back-end, but applies |
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filters, etc, to clean out known spam and copy-and-ad sites. If I |
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can't find something with DuckDuckGo, then I try Google as a followup. |
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(DDG doesn't handle long literals very well; queries for things like |
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long model numbers don't usually work out.) |
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You can also use it as a calculator, like you can Google, but it |
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defers calculations (and other relevant things) to Wolfram Alpha. |
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Queries on some other things will quote verbatim Wikipedia, and you |
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can click through to get to the WP page. |
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It's very nice. |
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:wq |
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