[wellylug] simple firefox question

Mark Signal mark at databackup.co.nz
Thu Oct 28 17:42:35 NZDT 2004


It did has something like that so I "#" it out and now doesn't append .nz
It now has a new trick -  If I enter http://wombat it tries to resolve
wombat.com *$#@#^%'ing thing

Is there a version of explorer 6 that runs on Linux? :)

thanks for the suggestion

Mark

-----Original Message-----
From: wellylug-admin at lists.wellylug.org.nz
[mailto:wellylug-admin at lists.wellylug.org.nz]On Behalf Of Pete Black
Sent: Thursday, 28 October 2004 11:33 a.m.
To: wellylug at lists.wellylug.org.nz
Subject: Re: [wellylug] simple firefox question


your resolv.conf doesnt have a 'search .nz' line or similar in it by any
chance does it?

>it was set at true so I changed it  but it doesn't seem to fix the problem
>
>many thanks anyway
>
>Mark
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: wellylug-admin at lists.wellylug.org.nz
>[mailto:wellylug-admin at lists.wellylug.org.nz]On Behalf Of Darryl
>Hamilton
>Sent: Thursday, 28 October 2004 9:51 a.m.
>To: wellylug at lists.wellylug.org.nz
>Subject: Re: [wellylug] simple firefox question
>
>
>Mark Signal wrote:
>
>
>>I am about to head butt my screen
>>
>>firefox insists on adding .nz extensions to every address that doesn't
>>already have a country extension. It means I cant easily browse webservers
>>within my local network.
>>
>>any ideas.
>>
>>
>
>I think this is the "Internet Keywords" option (and yes, it annoys me
>too). To turn it off, go to about:config in firefox, type keyword into
>the box at the top (it's a filter) and double-click on keyword.enabled
>so that it is set to false.
>
>If it's already at false, then I don't know what is going on, but since
>it's been false for me, I haven't had a problem with the url guessing.
>
>Darryl.
>
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