said by burris:I use "my.yahoo.com" (without the http in the url) page to stay on my old original yahoo.
Try it without the http...see what happens for you.
Even when I open a new page and type in the http, only my original yahoo comes up and the http goes away, which is what I want.
That action is going to be browser specific. My normal browser is SeaMonkey, and with that browser if I don't prefix an http url with "
http://" it is automatically inserted (even if I really meant to use the "
ftp://" prefix, but forgot it).
Whether your browser automatically inserts it or even displays it in the address field, it is there anyway if you are using a url that needs the http protocol. The "
http://", "
ftp://", "
telnet://" and other prefixes are how the browser knows what protocol to use for the url.
For example, shown below is a screen capture of
http://digconsys.com:
And now, here is a screen capture of
ftp://digconsys.com:
As you can see, without the proper prefix, the browser would not know which protocol to use (and which actual site to access).