On Mon, Aug 08, 2005 at 11:24:18AM +0300, Török Edvin wrote: > First of all excuse me for cc-ing this to debian-devel, but I think > this is an issue to be debated on debian-devel (besides being a bug > report) Why? Did the maintainer ask for input? > Try entering the following URLs in the location bar: > http//kernel.org > http//debian.org > http//www.getthunderbird.org > Result: the user gets redirected to the microsoft website due to the > I'm feeling lucky google search > Solution: disable the default I'm feeling lucky search, or pop up a > window asking if he wants to do the search and getting redirected > (about:config, keyword.enabled->false, or change keyword.URL) > This issue occurs each time a user forgots the : from http, and types > http// instead of http://, firefox performs a google search on http > and microsoft is the first, and thus we get redirected there. > This should not be default behaviour. I don't see anything particularly wrong with it. People who don't understand what URIs are will, IME, generally just type the domain name without specifying a protocol. People who understand what URIs are should bloody well be able to figure out that they did something wrong and try again. The fact that a number of these searches wind up at microsoft.com, though, when doing a direct google search on the entered string does not, suggests there is room for improvement in the auto-searching feature... -- Steve Langasek postmodern programmer
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