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Re: Mozilla idealab link



Paul M Foster wrote:
On Mon, Mar 31, 2003 at 11:45:11PM -0600, Donald Spoon wrote:


Paul M Foster wrote:

I'm running testing, and the Mozilla that comes with it. Every time I
start the program, it goes to a local page on my hard drive which has my
favorite links on it. Immediately thereafter, before I do anything else,
it jumps to http://find.idealab.com. This is pretty obnoxious behavior. I've cleaned out caches, removed and blocked all cookies, etc. I've even
scanned all the mozilla files in my ~/.mozilla directories for the
idealab string. No matter what, it still does it. Anyone know why? Is
there a fix for this?


Doesn't work. But a little research turned up the reason for it.
It's a bug. It seems that if you open up Mozilla with the History tab
foremost, it attempts to execute a "find:" command (similar to other
commands like, "about:" and such). This fails, so it converts this to a
URL: www.find.com. This redirects to find.idealab.com.

I saw that someone posted a link to the fix, but the link was stale, so I don't know what the fix is.

Paul



I thought that bug was fixed long ago, but the the workaround is to put
user_pref("browser.fixup.alternate.enabled", false); in either /etc/mozilla/prefs.js or ~/.mozilla/<profile>/*/user.js. That way when it fails trying to find 'find' it just gives up and displays an error instead of trying www.find.com.



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