I have just abandoned IE6 at work completely in favour of Firefox, though I’ve been using Firefox at home for some time.

I mentioned in a recent post some weird behaviour in Firefox when a duff URL was linked. I now find this in Firefox help which perhaps explains it:

By default, if you enter a search term in the address field and press Enter, a Google “I’m Feeling Lucky” search is performed, and you’re taken to the first result of that search directly. If you prefer to see the standard search result list instead, add the following code to your user.js file:

// Change to normal Google search:
user_pref(“keyword.URL”, “http://www.google.com/search?btnG=Google+Search&q=”);

Of course, you could also change to a completely different search engine by changing the string to something else. The default search string is: “http://www.google.com/search?btnI=I%27m+Feeling+Lucky&q=”.

So you don’t need a Google search box anymore.

Sticking with the “Im Feeling Lucky” setting, I threw my name into the address field and was sadly disappointed to find someone else at home:

Nick Holmes, PhD

University Lecturer in Molecular Immunology

Research Interests

My current research interests are in the area of the early events occurring after lymphocyte activation and in particular the role of CD45 in these events …