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OK to Put Cursor in Search Field on Page Load?

I used to think it was a great idea to force the cursor into the Search field upon page load, but with the advent of the Firefox search toolbar (or Google Toolbar in IE), I more commonly encounter situations where this annoys me.

For a site like Google, where searching is the only option, this still makes sense. Does it for sites that aren’t totally search-based?

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This entry was posted on Wednesday, April 4th, 2007 at 7:54 pm and is filed under web UI, firefox. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. You can leave a response, or trackback from your own site.

2 Responses to “OK to Put Cursor in Search Field on Page Load?”

  1. Scott Allen Says:
    April 5th, 2007 at 6:41 am

    No. It doesn’t make sense at all. This is my biggest problem with Yahoo!’s home page. I like using Yahoo! as my home page because I like their layout and news, but anytime I just want to open a browser to go to somewhere else, I have to click on the address bar AFTER the page loads completely… which usually results in typing half an address and then getting http://www.yahoo.com in the middle of what I was typing. I’m glad someone else noticed this besides me.

  2. Administrator Says:
    April 5th, 2007 at 6:09 pm

    This happened to me on My Yahoo! about 10 minutes after I read your comment.

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