Nivard, I'm using XP and on Goggle home page, I am able to change it as follows: Tools>Internet Options>Content>Auto Complete>Settings. Hope this helps. Faye ----- Original Message ----- From: "Nivard Ovington" <[email protected]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Tuesday, November 29, 2011 9:16 AM Subject: [COMPUTERS] turning off predictive search in google > Hi all > > A peculiar one that I can't seem to resolve > > For the last few days I have been lumbered with googles predictive text > type searches > > Where you start to type and it "predicts" what the site is you are looking > for, it really drives me > round the bend > > I have looked at settings and have google instant turned off, yet it does > it anyway > > I have turned it on , saved settings, then turned it off and saved again > yet no effect > > Anyone have a clue what it might be ? > > I use Firefox and XP > > Any help appreciated before I bin google and use Bing instead > > On googling this appears to be a long term problem for some, this has only > just become an issue for > me in the last week > > I suspect it coincided with upgrading to the latest Firefox as Ancestry > have now added a usable > enhanced viewer > > I have checked googles forums but all they seem to do is vent their anger > on google but google does > not respond or fix the problem > > Any thoughts ? > > Nivard Ovington in Cornwall (UK) > > > > > :-~:-~:-~:-~:-~:-~:-~:-~:-~:-~: > > Please refrain from posting commercial URLs and from discussing prices on > the list. > > Remember to SNIP when replying. > > :-~:-~:-~:-~:-~:-~:-~:-~:-~:-~: > > > > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > [email protected] with the word 'unsubscribe' without the > quotes in the subject and the body of the message