On Sunday 20 January 2008 17:05:27 James Knott wrote: > Stan Goodman wrote: > > In other OSes here, When Firefox is unable to find the URL entered in the > > navigation field, it says so (Error 404). And it is possible to enter > > into the the field a URL less top domain, e.g. "cnn", without "com" (at > > least for the "com" case, if not others, and FF would make the guess. > > > > That is not what happens in the browsers on my openSUSE v10.3. I have > > been trying to understand what actually does happen -- in both Firefox > > and Konqueror. Entering a defective URL in either browser brings the home > > page of my own web page, and I am unable to find why or how browsers do > > this. My Firefox home page is a blank page, not my website; I have > > cleared Browsing History and Cache, the only places I can think of where > > that URL is known to Firefox (which shouldn't matter anyway to > > Konqueror). > > > > The same thing happens if I enter into the Alt-F2 field a program name > > not known ti the system: Konqueror obliges with my website. > > > > Where have I neglected to remove the offending URL? > > > > I am assuming that straightening this out will also enable browsers to > > find "com" by themselves. > > I have never seen that behaviour. When I attempt to go to a bogus site, > both Firefox and Konqueror give an error message.
I wish I could say the same thing. I was surprised when this developed when I installed v10.3 on clean partitions. It didn't happen in the previous installation (v10.2), and I hoped the reason was because of something foolish that I had done. I'm still hoping. I do find it curious that the same behavior exhibited by both Firefox and Konqueror -- two independent applications that, as far as I know, do not share any elements. If they do share e.g. a dll, I suppose that would finger the shared file. -- Stan Goodman Qiryat Tiv'on Israel -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
