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How to get rid of the UA string in the default SRWare Iron search URL?



 
 
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Old May 23rd 17, 12:09 AM posted to microsoft.public.windowsxp.general
Harry Williams[_2_]
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Default How to get rid of the UA string in the default SRWare Iron search URL?

When I the SRWare Iron address bar search feature, and when I search using
DuckDuckGo as the search engine by default, the URL for "keyword1 keyword2"
becomes:
https://duckduckgo.com/?q=keyword1+k...&t=ironbrowser

Why should I give away to DuckDuckGo my browser, especially when the User
Agent string is randomly set to something else with a UA switcher?

Where does the "&t=ironbrowser" come from.
And more importantly: How can I get rid of it?

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Old May 23rd 17, 04:34 AM posted to microsoft.public.windowsxp.general
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Default How to get rid of the UA string in the default SRWare Iron searchURL?

Harry Williams wrote:
When I the SRWare Iron address bar search feature, and when I search using
DuckDuckGo as the search engine by default, the URL for "keyword1 keyword2"
becomes:
https://duckduckgo.com/?q=keyword1+k...&t=ironbrowser

Why should I give away to DuckDuckGo my browser, especially when the User
Agent string is randomly set to something else with a UA switcher?

Where does the "&t=ironbrowser" come from.
And more importantly: How can I get rid of it?


Are you sure the above link, isn't pulled in dynamically from

https://iron.start.me/us

when the browser starts ?

Visit duckduckgo the "normal" way, bookmark it, or do
something similar, to bypass what you're seeing.

There is a separate setting for the useragent, where
the browser is identified as "iron". And that could well
be compiled into one of the DLLs or something.

Branding on browsers is usually sprinkled all over the place.

But some of it could be dynamic, and maybe if you change the
start page, there will be a different result.

Paul
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Old May 23rd 17, 11:42 AM posted to microsoft.public.windowsxp.general
JJ[_11_]
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Default How to get rid of the UA string in the default SRWare Iron search URL?

On Mon, 22 May 2017 23:09:19 +0000 (UTC), Harry Williams wrote:
When I the SRWare Iron address bar search feature, and when I search using
DuckDuckGo as the search engine by default, the URL for "keyword1 keyword2"
becomes:
https://duckduckgo.com/?q=keyword1+k...&t=ironbrowser

Why should I give away to DuckDuckGo my browser, especially when the User
Agent string is randomly set to something else with a UA switcher?

Where does the "&t=ironbrowser" come from.
And more importantly: How can I get rid of it?


It came from one of the browser search engines.

To get rid of it, edit the DuckDuckGo search engine's URL from the browser
setting. Look for Search Engine setting or try going to below URL.

chrome://settings/searchEngines

If editing the DuckDuckGo search engine's URL is not allowed, you'll have to
delete that search engine and readd it later. To readd DuckDuckGo search
engine into the browser, go to DuckDuckGo front page. Right-click on the
inputbox on that page, then choose "Add as search engine".
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Old May 28th 17, 03:42 PM posted to microsoft.public.windowsxp.general
Harry Williams[_2_]
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Default How to get rid of the UA string in the default SRWare Iron search URL?

On Tue, 23 May 2017 17:42:27 +0700, in
, JJ wrote:

When I the SRWare Iron address bar search feature, and when I search using
DuckDuckGo as the search engine by default, the URL for "keyword1 keyword2"
becomes:
https://duckduckgo.com/?q=keyword1+k...&t=ironbrowser

Why should I give away to DuckDuckGo my browser, especially when the User
Agent string is randomly set to something else with a UA switcher?

Where does the "&t=ironbrowser" come from.
And more importantly: How can I get rid of it?


It came from one of the browser search engines.

To get rid of it, edit the DuckDuckGo search engine's URL from the browser
setting. Look for Search Engine setting or try going to below URL.

chrome://settings/searchEngines

If editing the DuckDuckGo search engine's URL is not allowed, you'll have to
delete that search engine and readd it later. To readd DuckDuckGo search
engine into the browser, go to DuckDuckGo front page. Right-click on the
inputbox on that page, then choose "Add as search engine".


I see _exactly_ what you are talking about and you are correct!

Going to "chrome://settings/searchEngines", this is what I found under
"Default Search Settings:"

Google | google.com_ |
{google:baseURL}search?q=%s&{google:RLZ}{googler iginalQueryForSuggestion}{google:assistedQueryStat s}{google:searchFieldtrialParameter}{google:search Client}{google:sourceId}{google:instantExtendedEna bledParameter}{google:contextualSearchVersion}ie={ inputEncoding}

Iron SecureSearch | srware-search.com |
http://srware-search.com/search.php?q=%s

DuckDuckGo | duckduckgo.com
https://duckduckgo.com/?q=%s&t=ironbrowser

Ecosia | ecosia.org
https://www.ecosia.org/search?q=%s&ref=iron

So I see all I have to do is change
FROM: https://duckduckgo.com/?q=%s&t=ironbrowser
TO: https://duckduckgo.com/?q=%s

But as you warned, "chrome://settings/searchEngines" won't let me change it.
I can right click on the setting to "Inspect" in a side window.

Pressing "Control+F" I can search for "t=ironbrowser" which finds this line.
(Note: Just searching for "t=" finds the same line.)
div class="static-text" displaymode="static" tabindex="0"https://duckduckgo.com/?q=%s&t=ironbrowser/div

Hitting the "F3" key shows there are no other instances of "t=" in the file.
I can right click on that line to "Edit Text".

And change that line to:
div class="static-text" displaymode="static" tabindex="0"https://duckduckgo.com/?q=%s/div

This should work, but I can't seem to *save* the edited results since there
is no "Save" button on this right-side-window console.

I think this would work if I could find the *Save* button in the console
editing window. Is there an edit button?

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Old May 28th 17, 04:28 PM posted to microsoft.public.windowsxp.general
Harry Williams[_2_]
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Default How to get rid of the UA string in the default SRWare Iron search URL?

On Sun, 28 May 2017 14:42:36 +0000 (UTC), in
news
I think this would work if I could find the *Save* button in the console
editing window. Is there an edit button?


Searching for how to save the modified string:
FROM: https://duckduckgo.com/?q=%s&t=ironbrowser
TO: https://duckduckgo.com/?q=%s

I found this web page:
https://drunkenachura.wordpress.com/...omium-browser/

Which seems to call this "thing" the "RLZ Tracking ID".

Here's how they suggested changing the RLZ Tracking ID:
Yes, I ramble. Here¢s how to do get rid of the Chrome RLZ Tracking ID:

1) Open Options Basic Stuff
2) Click the Manage button next to Default Search:
3) Click Add. Type whatever you like for Name and Keyword
4) In the URL box, paste this and click OK:
{google:baseURL}search?&safe=off&num=100&q=%s
5) Select the new listing you just added and click Make Default
6) That should get rid of the tracking number.
7) It also turns off safe search
8) It also makes each search show 100 results instead of just 10.
9) If you like to use search suggestions, add this to the URL box
somewhere after search? and before &q=%s:
{google:acceptedSuggestion}{googleriginalQueryFo rSuggestion}

That was written for Chrome and for Google Search, but I should be able to
modify it for SRWare Iron and for DuckDuckGo search just as well.

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