* Steve Langasek (vorlon@debian.org) wrote: > 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? I did not, he filed the bug a couple of days ago and I haven't been able to respond yet. > > 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... > -- Eric Dorland <eric.dorland@mail.mcgill.ca> ICQ: #61138586, Jabber: hooty@jabber.com 1024D/16D970C6 097C 4861 9934 27A0 8E1C 2B0A 61E9 8ECF 16D9 70C6 -----BEGIN GEEK CODE BLOCK----- Version: 3.12 GCS d- s++: a-- C+++ UL+++ P++ L++ E++ W++ N+ o K- w+ O? M++ V-- PS+ PE Y+ PGP++ t++ 5++ X+ R tv++ b+++ DI+ D+ G e h! r- y+ ------END GEEK CODE BLOCK------
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