On 8/8/05, Steve Langasek <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Mon, Aug 08, 2005 at 11:24:18AM +0300, Török Edvin wrote: > > First of all excuse me for cc-ing this to debian-devel, but I think > > this is an issue to be debated on debian-devel (besides being a bug > > report) > > Why? Did the maintainer ask for input? No, it's just me who wanted a little debate on it. > > > Try entering the following URLs in the location bar: > > http//kernel.org > > http//debian.org > > http//www.getthunderbird.org > > Result: the user gets redirected to the microsoft website due to the > > I'm feeling lucky google search > > > Solution: disable the default I'm feeling lucky search, or pop up a > > window asking if he wants to do the search and getting redirected > > (about:config, keyword.enabled->false, or change keyword.URL) > > > This issue occurs each time a user forgots the : from http, and types > > http// instead of http://, firefox performs a google search on http > > and microsoft is the first, and thus we get redirected there. > > This should not be default behaviour. > > I don't see anything particularly wrong with it. People who don't > understand what URIs are will, IME, generally just type the domain name > without specifying a protocol. I agree, but they can still misstype the URL, or the site may just be down. > > People who understand what URIs are should bloody well be able to figure out > that they did something wrong and try again. > > The fact that a number of these searches wind up at microsoft.com, though, > when doing a direct google search on the entered string does not, suggests > there is room for improvement in the auto-searching feature... But they might end up anywhere, it depends what the user has misstyped. And maybe the user isn't the one who has misstyped, maybe he is following a link on a site, and the link is broken. Then he won't know that the link was broken, because he gets redirected and maybe to the wrong place. There other issues with it: an auto-redirection shouldn't be performed in the first place. If the user wants to do a search there is the search bar. I shouldn't get redirected because I misstyped a URL (not only the http://, other parts can be misstyped too). Maybe the site I am trying to access is down temporarly, that doesn't mean I have to get redirected to some other site. My point is that firefox should at least ask the user if it wants to auto-redirect, and it shouldn't be the default IMHO.
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