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Posted by Benjamin Niemann on 03/08/06 23:24
Alan J. Flavell wrote:
> On Wed, 8 Mar 2006, Benjamin Niemann wrote:
>
>> windandwaves wrote:
>>
>> > Why do we go to Microsoft when we enter
>> > http://http://whateveryouwanthere
>>
>> That's Firefox trying to be smart. I (correctly) recognizes your input as
>> 'not an URL'. It will then fire-up a google search for it and sends you
>> to the first hit.
>>
>> And for some reason MS is the top-site for 'http'.
>
> Well, Mozilla takes me to http://www.http.com , which has nothing to
> do with MS. The browser is still being too clever for its own good!
The OP's 'trick' works fine under FF 1.5/Linux here. Perhaps you've done
something relevant to your config.
It's getting even funnier/confusing, if you accidently click the middle
mouse button somewhere in the window - at least under Linux, don't know, if
the Windows version behaves this way, too. FF will then open whatever 'URL'
is in the clipboard.
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Benjamin Niemann
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