my previous searches not completing

berrypendel

Since turning on pc today google is not remembering my searches. If I typed boards before then typing bo.. would bring up boards and other words starting bo. It does not work today

I have Firefox 11 on a win 7 64 bit and also on a vista 32 bit. Note I mean my previous searches not google auto complete

EDIT It must be a google rather nthan firefox thing as i switched on an old xp laptop with FF 9 and it is not working on that now either

EDIT2Bing is showing all my previous searches so is google not firefox

_AVALANCHE_

Tools-->Options-->Privacy-->Firefox will "what"

What's "what" set at?

berrypendel

_AVALANCHE_ wrote: »

Tools-->Options-->Privacy-->Firefox will "what"

What's "what" set at?

use custom settings for history. Tried with remember history too - will not work

Remember my browsing history is ticked too

_AVALANCHE_

Right click in the Google Box, is "show suggestions" ticked?

Tools-->Clear recent History-->Wipe everything. (This is what I'd do, may or may not work)

berrypendel

_AVALANCHE_ wrote: »

Right click in the Google Box, is "show suggestions" ticked?

Tools-->Clear recent History-->Wipe everything. (This is what I'd do, may or may not work)

not the google box it is the site. And not the google suggestion i want but my previous searches

_AVALANCHE_

http://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/Form%20autocomplete%20entries%20are%20not%20saved

berrypendel

_AVALANCHE_ wrote: »

http://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/Form%20autocomplete%20entries%20are%20not%20saved

thanks but I have done that


I discovered it is remembering my searches in the toolbar with google suggest turned off

I never used that before. But still my previous searches will not appear on the google main page. Must be a google thing

jinx9000

i was using http://www.google.com/webhp?complete=0

so that i did not have to use the auto-complete and could pick from my previous saved searches but now those saved searches have gone (just in the last few days).

its a pain in the balls. google is turning bogus in my books. that auto complete is muck.

anybody else got any ideas?

berrypendel

jinx9000 wrote: »

i was using http://www.google.com/webhp?complete=0

so that i did not have to use the auto-complete and could pick from my previous saved searches but now those saved searches have gone (just in the last few days).

its a pain in the balls. google is turning bogus in my books. that auto complete is muck.

anybody else got any ideas?

http://www.google.com/webhp?complete=0 is what i was using too and it is my saved searches that have gone yesterday. bing can pick up my previous saved searches and you can turn off the bing auto complete but i think you need to accept their cookie or it will go back to auto complete. May be wrong there

I do not seem to have the google toolbar on my vista


How does one contact google?

berrypendel

Doesn't seem much on the web about it.

MOH

Try clearing out any google related cookies, see if that helps.
(Or try a different browser/machine)

berrypendel

jinx9000 wrote: »

i was using http://www.google.com/webhp?complete=0

so that i did not have to use the auto-complete and could pick from my previous saved searches but now those saved searches have gone (just in the last few days).

its a pain in the balls. google is turning bogus in my books. that auto complete is muck.

anybody else got any ideas?

apparently now you do not need the/webhp?complete=0, google.com/ does not have google predictions on my pcs anyway. google.com redirects to google.ie for me

new searches are showing in the google toolbar, at least for me, but only starting from the ones i search now not all the previous ones

jinx9000

google.com/ie still uses predictive and i've lost my previous searches.

that predictive is very annoying............its basically another selling tool!

berrypendel

jinx9000 wrote: »

google.com/ie still uses predictive

not on my 3 computers. delete cookies?

and i've lost my previous searches

me too. they are available to me on bing though and predictve can be turned off

_AVALANCHE_

Did any of ye completely wipe and reinstall browser.

berrypendel

_AVALANCHE_ wrote: »

Did any of ye completely wipe and reinstall browser.

you mean wipe the disk and reinstall or wipe just the browser?

_AVALANCHE_

berrypendel wrote: »

you mean wipe the disk and reinstall or wipe just the browser?

Just the browser

http://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/Uninstalling%20Firefox


Run CCleaner aswell.

berrypendel

_AVALANCHE_ wrote: »

Just the browser

http://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/Uninstalling%20Firefox


Run CCleaner aswell.

did you wipe the browser? did it work? can't see how it would as it is a google thing i would say. happened on my 3 pcs on the same day and one had not been on for a few days

jinx9000

on one , i did nothing, just one day, they were gone

on another, i deleted the histroy/cookies etc etc and then they were gone!

Departed

A friend of mine discovered that if you have firefox and you make your home page about:home - note the : the page will be a ff serarch and will remember last searches