On 05/04/07, Geoffrey S. Mendelson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
A nice feature for a web browser would be one that sees those link redirects and updates the bookmarks for you.
I know this little company from Redmond doing such stuff - next thing you know someone hijacks the connection (e.g. the ISP's proxy?), redirects your bank/CC access to his own web site and get your bookmarks point to his phishing site automatically. No thanks.
I expect that if you wanted to support FOSS you could write an add-on for Mozilla/Firefox. If you wanted to support yourself you probably
Maybe an extension suggesting this, explaining the situation and asking for confirmation to do the change is a good thing. Such an extension will have to be bound to bookmark access (can it be done? I suppose so), otherwise any redirect (and there are tons of legitimate redirects) will trigger it to lookup through all your bookmarks for a match to update. --Amos ================================================================= To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word "unsubscribe" in the message body, e.g., run the command echo unsubscribe | mail [EMAIL PROTECTED]
