On Mon, May 17, 2010 at 3:41 PM, Mark Holmquist <marktrac...@gmail.com> wrote: >> When Firefox 3 (on linux) came out, a cool new feature that arrived >> was the ability for a user to type in part of the domain in to the >> address bar resulting in the browser either redirect to the correct >> page (say socallinux.org) or it would redirect to google giving the >> results of what was put into the address bar. This feature now just >> redirects to a Cox page: > > This happens to me with Time Warner, as well. Let me explain: > > First, this is not a new feature. Firefox has always had a special > google magic function that searches google and, if the first result is > relevant enough (this is the magic part), it automagically redirects. > I've been able to do *that* for years. > > However, sometimes TW cable decides that no, google isn't OK. They > redirect me in a very clumsy fashion to their unhelpful search page. > This doesn't just happen with keywords, either: http://facebook.com > will occasionally be redirected to a Time Warner search. In my > experience, turning the option off does nothing. > > This, I fear, is pure evil on the part of the ISPs, not anything to do > with Firefox's programming or, for that matter, conditional evil on > their part towards FLOSS users only. Rest assured that everyone is > affected by this blight....
Are you saying that they are acting as a web proxy? Yikes. I know free WiFi operators do that for logins. I didn't know anyone was doing it for search. -- John. _______________________________________________ LinuxUsers mailing list LinuxUsers@socallinux.org http://socallinux.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/linuxusers
