I'm confused. If you go to you.com there is a search field right there just like every other search site. No extension is needed to try it. Why do you say you aren't allowed to search without the extension?
Thanks, that explains it as I use Firefox. That is surely a very odd decision to have it fail to with Chrome/Chromium without a plugin. I can see why it'd make people a bit suspicious as there is no reason for it other than to force the use of a plugin when it isn't necessary.
Well, that's fine, but all the issues being reported here are due to Chrome users seeing the same thing - inability to use You.com unless you install an even larger potential privacy killer in the form of an extension. Otherwise it refuses to let you search using the on page bar.
Not all extensions are the same.
I understand healthy skepticism since there are a ton of sketchy extensions out there.
We will open source it in the next few hours since 80% of comments here are just about this extension :D
It's 33kB and a dead simple change in one setting.
Yeah, I've been playing with it all day, and this thread was is only place i heard about an extension- it sounds like its if you want to make it the default on chrome when you type search terms into the navigation bar
It's also pretty telling that all of these complaints are coming based on what appears to be a workaround for Google's attempt to lock you into their search when you use their browser.