On Mon, 6 Mar 2023 08:24:35 +0000, Wols Lists wrote: > > Do you mean /etc/nsswitch.conf? > > > > > Ah yes. Any idea why Firefox seems to ignore it? Whenever I try to > browse to local machines in /etc/hosts, firefox gives me a google > search page which is a bloody nuisance. If I type a VALID ADDRESS in > the ADDRESS BAR, that's where I expect to go! Not some damn random > search page!
I see the same with Chromium sometimes, as the same input field is used for addresses and search terms and the browser has to make a guess at which you mean. With Chromium the solution is to add a trailing slash. -- Neil Bothwick There are two hard things in computer science: cache invalidation, naming things and off-by-one errors.
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