Just a wild guess from me, but I wonder if the History in each browser is building up and up, and so when you search, there is a lot to go through. EG typing "g" will cause the search function to locate all "G's", but if History has never been cleared, there might be thousands of entries in the list.
Check each browsers' History settings. Is History ever deleted?
Mark
Hi
I'm having problems using search engines using IE and Firefox. It's a bit bizarre really. I go to the serach bar and type in my query but as I type it appears that the browser isn't recognisng the key strokes.
The first letter will appear but subsequent key strokes do not appear to be picked up, For example if I search for goldfish the browser will detect "g" but typing in the subsequent letters can take a while (almost like it's freezing up).
However entering text into a form on a website (for example I'm not having any problems typing this question) is fine.
Is there a way to overcome this?
Thanks

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