Disable Google Instant Suggestion Feature
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If you are using Internet Explorer with the latest Google Toolbar.
All you have to do is look for the wrench, which is the toolbar options panel. The wrench is located at the right corner of the google toolbar.
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Click the wrench, (the blue one beside the square button) and a new window will appear.
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Uncheck the ‘Suggest searches as you type’.
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Then click save.
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If you are using Mozilla Firefox with Google Toolbar, these are the steps to disable the feature:
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Click the settings button on the right of the toolbar.
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Then go to Options.
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Click the ‘Search Box Settings’ button, which is on top of all the buttons on the window that will appear.
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Uncheck ‘Suggest Popular Searches’ to disable the instant suggestion feature.
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You can also uncheck ‘Suggest searches from my search history’ if you really don’t want Google to suggest whenever you type on that search box.
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Click the OK buttons.
From Toolbar Firefox Help Center: ( I added this on April 6, 2008)
Please note that Google Suggest is separate from the Toolbar’s drop-down search history feature. If you’d like to clear your search history automatically when you exit Firefox, simply follow the instructions above, and un-check the box next to “Save the search history across browser sessions.”
To entirely disable the Toolbar’s drop-down search history, please visit http://www.google.com/support/firefox/bin/answer.py?answer=45143 for detailed instructions.
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If you are using Firefox without the toolbar, you can also disable this feature.
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Click the Google button on the left of the search box on Firefox.
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Click ‘Manage Search Engines’
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Uncheck the ‘Show search suggestions’.
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Then click OK.
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