[wellylug] simple firefox question

[Leo]

Mark Signal wrote:
> thanks for testing that out.
> 
> The distro I'm using is Ubuntu which I would have thought should be a pretty
> close relative of sarge in all ways that matter.
> 
> Actually when I come to think of it I have had the same issue with firefox
> on Windows XP so it has to be some stupid setting in about:config?
> 
> thanks again for your help
That seems extremely unlikely, I havn't seen *anyone* in the ubuntu userlist or 
irc channel or anyone anywhere else even mention a problem such as this.
Perhaps though you could try asking in one of those two places?
> 
> Mark
> 
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: wellylug-admin at lists.wellylug.org.nz
> [mailto:wellylug-admin at lists.wellylug.org.nz]On Behalf Of Grant McLean
> Sent: Thursday, 28 October 2004 8:06 p.m.
> To: WellyLUG
> Subject: RE: [wellylug] simple firefox question
> 
> 
> On Thu, 2004-10-28 at 18:13, Mark Signal wrote:
> 
>>wombat is in local hosts file.
>>
>>I fixed the problem by typing apt-get konqueror
> 
> 
> For the record, Firefox on my Debian Sarge system does not exhibit the
> behaviour you're seeing.
> 
> I have a number of simple hostnames in my hosts file and they all work
> fine from Firefox.  Just to be sure, I added 'wombat' as an alias for my
> ADSL router and that works too.
> 
> In the event that I misspell a hostname, my default Firefox behaviour is
> to use Google's I'm feeling lucky search (keyword.enabled is set to
> true).
> 
> Grant
> 
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