Google "toolbar" has disappeared and "reader" has replaced it. How do I get my search bar back?

JAlger wrote:

Why would I downgrade to Safari 5 when I'm perfectly fine wtih Safari 6?

I'm just letting people on this thread know that Apple makes downloads of their built-in apps available in the Support section of the site. You don't have to downgrade a whole OS just to roll back one app.

Do not suggest 'downgrades' unless you have tried them for yourself! Your suggestion may not work but will cause the OP to waste a lot of time and may end up with a reinstallation anyhow.

My method will work (I have tried)

That was before Chrome, so years back. I can't remember which one it was.

I guess that it wasn't implemented in Safari to improve usablilty, but rather due to pressure of marketing "new features" and maybe selling the keystrokes to google, so they can stalk you even without intention of using their search. Why else would Chrome market it as "awesome bar". What's so awesome about a search/url field...

Thanks for the helpful answers. I have one question you haven't covered. In Safari 5, if I knew an address (like say "www.espn.go.com", I could simply type "espn" in the url field and Safari would append the "http://www." and ".com" to make a complete address. Now I have to select from the dropdown menu to tell it if I am searching for "espn" or going to the url "www.espn.go.com". Is there a way to define a search versus an address entry without the the dropdown selection? In Safari 5 this was never an issue since searches were done in the search field, and addresses were input in the address field.

pgasound wrote:

Thanks for the helpful answers. I have one question you haven't covered. In Safari 5, if I knew an address (like say "www.espn.go.com", I could simply type "espn" in the url field and Safari would append the "http://www." and ".com" to make a complete address. Now I have to select from the dropdown menu to tell it if I am searching for "espn" or going to the url "www.espn.go.com". Is there a way to define a search versus an address entry without the the dropdown selection? In Safari 5 this was never an issue since searches were done in the search field, and addresses were input in the address field.

In actual fact, you can do this with Safari 6. I have used ESPN (since that is what you had in your question, and because its a website I have never opened before).

See the video below of Safari 6 apending the website address:

http://youtu.be/iG6IRqesg9I

Regards

Jason

Significant utility has been removed by forcing one to use a unified addresa and search bar. Previously one could enter their search terms in the search bar and navigate, keeping a record of their search in the search bar and being able to easily track and revise the search terms to get the results one wants. Now after every search, the terms are reset with an address. Though they are availabe on for instance, the google search page, they go away after one navigates. This is incredibly frustrating and time consuming, and takes away import functionality that was prevoiusly avaible. Apples unilaterial decisions are getting more and more questionable. Perfect examples are Address Book and Calendar in Lion that are just a PITA to use now, compared to prior versions.

With the unified address bar, at least give us a choice.

Thanks Taser. I had to read through this entire thread to get to a post that zeroed in on the problem. You are exactly right as to why this "improvement" is so frustrating for so many people. Suppose I was searching "Russian history." I visit a few of the pages that come up in the search. Now suppose I wanted to modify that search by specifying "20th century Russian history." With the old arrangement, all I had to do was place my cursor in the search field before the worlds "Russian history" and add the words "20th century." Now, unless I'm missing something, I have to go through the following ridiculous steps: Highlight the url; hit delete, click on the magnifying glass, select my original search at which point it will appear in the omnibox, and only then can I modify my original search. Either that, or I have to hold down the back button, find the original search, select that, then modify the search.

For people who do a lot of research, this is maddening.

turboglo wrote:

Thanks Taser. I had to read through this entire thread to get to a post that zeroed in on the problem. You are exactly right as to why this "improvement" is so frustrating for so many people. Suppose I was searching "Russian history." I visit a few of the pages that come up in the search. Now suppose I wanted to modify that search by specifying "20th century Russian history." With the old arrangement, all I had to do was place my cursor in the search field before the worlds "Russian history" and add the words "20th century." Now, unless I'm missing something, I have to go through the following ridiculous steps: Highlight the url; hit delete, click on the magnifying glass, select my original search at which point it will appear in the omnibox, and only then can I modify my original search. Either that, or I have to hold down the back button, find the original search, select that, then modify the search.

For people who do a lot of research, this is maddening.

You are missing something, all you have to do is place your cursor in the search field before the words Russian History and type 20th Century, it is exactly as it was excpet that there is no longer a seperate search field.

Missing Something?, missing everything it seems.

This only applies if you don't leave the search site. Once you click a search result, the search term is replaced by the url and is gone. Previously the tearch term remained in it's search field.

I loved this feature because the search words remained available even when opening a new tab.

Csound1 wrote:

Missing Something?, missing everything it seems.

I notice that when a post is critical of Apple, snark is targeted with vigilante zeal. Yet when an Apple "fan" resorts to snark, it gets a pass.

Anyway, I do not think you understood my post. Using the above example, the words "Russian history" no longer appear in the field because I have already done some searching and moved on to webpages. What appears in the field now is the url from the page I am on. In the old setup, the search term remained there for me to modify or replace withl the next search.

Your turn.

turboglo wrote:

Csound1 wrote:

Missing Something?, missing everything it seems.

I notice that when a post is critical of Apple, snark is targeted with vigilante zeal. Yet when an Apple "fan" resorts to snark, it gets a pass.

Anyway, I do not think you understood my post. Using the above example, the words "Russian history" no longer appear in the field because I have already done some searching and moved on to webpages. What appears in the field now is the url from the page I am on. In the old setup, the search term remained there for me to modify or replace withl the next search.

Your turn.

If you are unable to accommodate the functionality of Safari (and Chrome, IE et al) your obvious choice is to use Firefox, you should download now before it too loses the function. Then you can use your preferred method.

Csound1 wrote:

If you are unable to accommodate the functionality of Safari (and Chrome, IE et al) your obvious choice is to use Firefox, you should download now before it too loses the function. Then you can use your preferred method.

Yes, well, last I checked, I was the customer, and I thought Apple was supposed to be about accomodating the functionality of the customer, not the other way around. Geesh!

It is all part of the computer becoming a washing machine. Apple is transforming, perhaps inevitably. The desktop and laptop are being tablitized, as a strategy of unifying the operating system across platforms. However, I see benefits to the desktop/laptop for my purposes, but it looks like may of those advantages are going to be purposely tossed in a steady evolutoin toward a common denominator.

Although I get annoyed with Apple changing the way we work without the option to retain the old way, I just discovered that, if you search, a magnifying glass icon appears on the left end of the address bar and the history menu appears below. I don't have to click the Back button to find them. I guess it's just a matter of changing the way we work to conform to the way Apple IT works. At least when you buy a car, the company doesn't come in and change the way it works. But that probably is coming....

aamead wrote:

At least when you buy a car, the company doesn't come in and change the way it works. But that probably is coming....

Are you ignoring the numerous 'recalls' by various car manufacturers (you know, to stop the car accelerating on its own, to make the brakes work, stop the car from catching fire etc etc?)

Well, that comment was tongue-in-cheek; but recalling cars to correct defects isn't the same as retroactively coming to your home and swapping out one design feature for another, such as placing the speakers in your beloved sound system in different places or putting in tinted windows.... That, essentially, is what Apple does with its incremental upgrades, such as moving the Google search field. We don't want it, don't need it, but Apple decides it would be better, so it happens.

What really drives me crazy is the goofy Mail signature algorithm, which has been bizarre for years. When I am composing a message and select a signature to insert, the forehead-slappingly-obvious place to put it is at my cursor. I never know where it is going to end up: Three lines lower, above prior text, or totally out of sight at the bottom, where I have to search for it and cut and paste it back up where intended. Who dreamed up such a stupid algorighm? But I can't find a Mail forum to whine to; and it certainly wouldn't move Apple to correct what I consider a design defect it has retained for numerous updates.