On Sat, Jan 21, 2012 at 6:30 PM, John Jason Jordan <joh...@comcast.net> wrote: > It used to be that to go to eBay all I had to type in the URL bar was > "ebay" (Firefox or Opera), and the browser would assume I wanted to > add .com to the URL. Of course, if I wanted pdxlinux it would assume I > wanted pddxlinux.com, so you could leave off the .com only with sites > that were really .com sites. > > Several months ago I noticed that Firefox no longer did this. When I > type "ebay" in the URL bar it takes me to Google. Google lists eBay at > the top of the hits, but I still have to wait for the Google page to > load and then click a second time. This is very annoying. Google gets > the benefit of another web user going to their site and seeing their > ads, at the expense of the user's time and convenience. > > And it does the same now for Opera as well. I've looked everywhere in > both browsers for a setting to change it back to the old behavior, but > I can't find it anywhere. Note that I said that I can't find it; I did > not say it's not there. :) Both browsers have thousands of settings to > sort through, half of which are incomprehensibly labeled. > > Is this another usurpation of the web by the giant that I love to > hate? Has anyone else noticed this? Or is it my fault again?
See Chris's message for placing blame where it's due, and for the record, this is a change I actually like (although I'm a full-time chrome user, which behaves similarly). The workaround (tested in ff): press <ctrl>-enter instead of <enter> The fix: (also in Firefox) Open about:config, click "Yes I'll be careful, type "keyword.enabled" into the search box in the about:config *page*, click on the keyword.enabled line so it is set to false. Not exactly the first thing you think of... --Rogan _______________________________________________ PLUG mailing list PLUG@lists.pdxlinux.org http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug
