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I hate change
21/01/09

I don't write my blog very often, this is known. I usually only feel the need at times when I'm frustrated about something I have no recourse to complain about.

At this moment I am very cross with Google, and can't find a way of telling them, so reader(s?), I am telling you.

Normally when the Google toolbar requires an update, it's up to me to install it (as far as I can remember). However the most recent update has installed itself without asking me (I thought this was my computer?), and fuck knows (yes, I swore on my blog, that's new) what's so fucking good about it. All I know is that the feature I use about 50 times a day on the toolbar (that's an exaggeration, it's probably closer to between 5 and 20 times a day, depending on the day) has been removed, and I can't find any way of restoring it in the options menu.

This acclaimed and much mourned element is the 'find on page' feature, which until now allowed me to, quite literally, find on the page any word or phrase I type in the search window, without recourse to the time consuming and troublesome Ctrl+F combo of days gone by. What's more, if you do use Ctrl+F, which is a Windows feature in so far as my limited knowledge allows me to understand, you get the Google find on page thing, but it's at the bottom, and it's more elaborate. Which means it does about one extra thing you don't need, at the expense of being harder to find and harder to use. And it has the arrogance to replace the IE Ctrl+F find.

I looked on some Google forum and found this:

"As you mentioned, Toolbar 5 for IE introduced the Find bar, and I've heard lots of feedback from other forum members who also preferred how searching for words on a page worked in previous versions. We're working to improve this feature, and I'll let the forum know when an update is available."

Which I assume means they'll put it back at some point, but I still couldn't find a way of venting my own personally feelings on the subject, which are plentiful, which is why they are here.

So to surmise, I am cross
A) Because they changed it to make it worse
and
B) Because they installed it on my computer without asking me, immediately making my life less worth living.

I hope they fix it soon.

While I am being cross about internet browsing, when IE7 installed on my computer at work, it killed my scroll wheel, so I can no longer use it on web pages when I use IE7 (I don't care what all you Firefox and Google Chrome and Opera Sumbitches have to say, IE is better and I hate all of you for using browsers that are so pleased with themselves for interpreting HTML to the letter of the law, meaning nothing displays the same in any of them). It's not just that the scrollwheel doesn't work - I could live with that, but when you touch the scroll wheel, the screen jumps down four or five lines, then stops, then jumps down, then stops, four times, while I watch in despair, as there's nothing you can do till it's finished. It's ruined my relationship with the scrollwheel, which I have now been conditioned to fear on any computer I use, and in any programme, even though it's only IE7 on my work computer that has been affected. So that sucks. I looked for fixes at the time but couldn't find any. Maybe there is one now? Oh I hope so.

I would still hate all the other browsers more, even if using the scroll wheel advanced the development of a cure for cancer and made precious gems fly out of the screen.

That is enough Internet Browsing rage.

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Comments about This Article

I am delighted to report that Google have realised the error of their ways and fixed put the search function back to how it was. Praise be. Comment By: Dermot, 09 Jul 2009, Rating: 2/5

It sounds like you have a tough life. You have my sympathy. Comment By: Concerned, Dorset., 29 Jan 2009, Rating: 5/5

Oh yes you are. Comment By: Peter Wyngarde, 23 Jan 2009, Rating: 5/5

I am not the gay. Comment By: Jason Statham, 21 Jan 2009, Rating: 5/5

Saying all that, if you can be bothered to press Ctrl+F, the new find on page thing actually is pretty good. So maybe I should shut up? Comment By: Dermot, 21 Jan 2009, Rating: 2/5

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