[X4U] Re: X4U Digest, Vol 40, Issue 1

[Howard Morgan]

I'm using Firefox 3.0b1. When I enter "jr" in the address bar it is  
correctly expanded to http://www.jr.com/.

Hope this helps.

On Mon,Dec 3, 2007, at 8:58 PM, x4u-request at listserver.themacintoshguy.com 
  wrote:

> 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.

Howard Morgan
hdmorganjr at att.net