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Posted by windandwaves on 03/09/06 00:59
Benjamin Niemann wrote:
> 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.
I dont have a middle mouse button, but that may have been intended like that
for firefox.
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