{"id":1686,"date":"2005-08-23T21:27:50","date_gmt":"2005-08-23T21:27:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sunpig.com\/mt-entry-1686.html"},"modified":"2006-09-23T19:30:11","modified_gmt":"2006-09-23T19:30:11","slug":"google-desktop-annoyances","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sunpig.com\/martin\/2005\/08\/23\/google-desktop-annoyances\/","title":{"rendered":"Google Desktop annoyances"},"content":{"rendered":"

I installed the new version (2.0, yet still beta) of Google Desktop<\/a> yesterday, but I’m not feeling the love yet.<\/p>\n

In its standard mode, it runs as a sidebar on your desktop. The sidebar contains a fleet of customizable widgets, such as a little photo slideshow, news headlines, weather (if you’re in the US), and email. I tried this for a few hours, but now that I’ve got this widescreen monitor, I kinda like having all of that space for me<\/em> to use. The Google sidebar feels like too much of a bit out of my working space for not enough benefit. Maybe I’ll find space for it once more widgets are available.<\/p>\n

The second thing, which was by far the more annoying one until I found out how to fix it, is what happens when you do a search query. If you’re running Firefox, the default behaviour is for the search results to loads up in most recent tab. You know, the one you were actually working in at the time? BIG nuisance.<\/p>\n

Here’s how to solve that:<\/p>\n

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  1. In the Firefox Tools menu, select “Options…” to bring up the options dialog.<\/li>\n
  2. Click on the “Advanced” tool button.<\/li>\n
  3. Look at the options group for “Tabbed Browsing”. This allows you to change what happens when other applications (like your mail reader) try to open a hyperlink. Change it to “a new window”, and off you go.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

    Now it’s actually usable<\/em>. I still haven’t fallen in love with it, though.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

    I installed the new version (2.0, yet still beta) of Google Desktop yesterday, but I’m not feeling the love yet. In its standard mode, it runs as a sidebar on your desktop. The sidebar contains a fleet of customizable widgets, such as a little photo slideshow, news headlines, weather (if you’re in the US), and … <\/p>\n

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