 rchandraStargate Universe fanPremium
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14225-2105 | I'll second the NSI comment I also concur it's a little underhanded to do that.
Domain searching and "searching from the address bar" is not unique to I.E. either. I use Mozilla, and it has conf settings that enable searching (preconfigured URIs for Google, dmoz.org, etc.)from the location bar.
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 JoeOnSunsetDoublethink Is Doubleplus Ungood.Premium
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Ormond Beach, FL | Windows for lowest common denominator Let's not forget that almost everthing consumed by the masses is engineered for the lowest common denominator (or atleast close to it.) That's why television scripts are written for people with a 4th grade education.
Searching from the address bar surely helps my grandmother get to a site when she forgets to type the TLD, which she surely does do. Those of us with the know-how have very likely already turned the feature off with little work.
I think a lot of these kinds of problems would be solved by a GLOBAL "Advanced / Basic" switch that affects these types of features throughout Windows. And for even more fun, Retail packages of the OS could come set to Advanced mode and packages installed on computers sold at Wal-Mart could come preset to Basic. |
| I seriously hope none of you complaining about the address bar autosearch are programmers. Mozilla is a programmer's toy, yet the people pushing it the hardest seem to know none of the basics of GUI programming.
While it's understandable that some people are smart enough to do things the hard way, that still leaves people who are either not smart enough, are lazy, or y'know... are smart enough to work smart, not hard.
If you are just complaining about the issue in question, that it searches for something.com.com, that's a valid point, but personally my IE shows me a list of links and thumbnails of the first 6 most likely sites when I type something in the address bar to search for. So either you are not savvy and you need the autosearch and it just didn't work for you this time, you are savvy and you turned it to a better option, or you prefer the "lucky" version and it didn't work this time because of someone else's DNS server.
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