[X4U] Leopard Issues

[Jon Warms]

I just installed a 250GB drive and 10.5.1 on my MacBook, that had
been running 10.4.11 on a 100GB drive very happily.
The drive is fine but, so far, I'm an unhappy Leonard switcher.

I can only relate two problems, and one annoyance, but
-to me- they're biggies.

1) The annoyance: I put the old 100GB drive, with 10.4.11,
in an external USB housing. I was pleased to discover the
drive was still bootable, and I could run the MacBook from
the housing. But when I installed Leopard (from the DVD),
the Mac transfer program specifically said I had to connect
the old drive with a Firewire cable. So I copied the old
drive to a Firewire drive I had, and then ran the transfer
program.

THE TRANSFER PROGRAM WAS HAPPY WITH THE USB-
CONNECTED DRIVE. Bringing over the Firewire drive
had been unnecessary! The transfer from the USB drive
"just worked". Why didn't Apple check and fix the
instructions?

2) Problem 1: All browsers no longer do "domain guessing".
I'm connected using Verizon DSL. Now, for example, when
I type "jr" in the address bar (for jr.com, which is J&R) and
hit "return", the browser loads the Verizon-Yahoo search
page (with jr.com as the first entry). Old behavior: the browser
would automagically add the "www." and the ".com". This is
a major PITA; had I known, it would have been a show-stopper.

It's repeatable; and happens on Safari 3.0.4 and Firefox 2.0.0.11.
Camino works the same way. Strangely, it also happens on an
old Netscape browser that had been "guessing" fine. While it
sounds like Verizon is behind this, my wife's PowerBook, right
next to me on the kitchen table, does domain-guessing like
Macs always did.

I found an about:config change that was supposed to fix this,
but it didn't help.

3) I'll relate this in another post.