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

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!

I prefer this method, so do others, can't please all of the customers all of the time.

Well, if it was an option, they would be pleasing everyone it seems.

In this case it schould be no problem to please both. –> customise toolbar

papalapapp wrote:

In this case it schould be no problem to please both. –> customise toolbar

www.apple.com/feedback

Tell them, we are just users here.

abarrysmith wrote:

Well, if it was an option, they would be pleasing everyone it seems.

www.apple.com/feedback

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.

I hate Safari without my ability to do a quick Search. I tried and tried to customize it back the way it was and it didnt work. Thank goodness this post string is on here that I found from a bookmarked Google search. What the heck is the Reader? It pops up out of the blue and you cant get it to go away. I do NOT LIKE this new update! And what's with asking me for to save my passwords all the time now too? Safari never did that before. Grrrr. PLEASE FIX IT to where users actually want it or the ability to manipulate it ourselves. Thanks.

Hi there,

You can still do quick searches in just the same way you could before. The only difference is that now you use the combined address/search bar rather an the google search field. I also believe (someone feel free to correct me) that you can set your default search engine in he Safari preferences this means that when you type your search you will get the results from your chosen search provider.

I have to say though that google is pretty much the daddy of search engines so having that as an automatic default makes sense.

Once you have retained your muscle memory and have getting used to looking for the address bar and not the search bar you will find that this new feature is much more powerful than it was when they were separate.

The thing that I don't understand is why they have not release dan update for mobile safari in order to unify the two fields like the have in desktop safari. The way it is at present, iCloud can not sync your searches with your safari any more because they have two separate layouts. Before when I went to use my desktop safari and started searching in the google bar, all the searches that I made on my iPhone, iPad and iPod also came up (and visa-versa), now, because of the different layouts iCloud is not able to sync my searches, which has left me to rely on the my history (which I loud still syncs). Maybe we will see a fix for this in iSO6, but it would have been nice if they had released an update to iSO5 that brought the two different versions of safari in tune with each other.

Jay, you are right that you can set your preferred search engine. But there are some fundamental differences that you can't get back with configuration or getting-used-to-it. They are discussed above.

What bothers me most is that refining your search is pretty tedious instead of just clicking into the seperate search field and continue typing.

Additionally, every url you type goes to google, even though you don't use their service. With this method, google grabs website domains that you actually wouldn't want to share with them.