Okay, place blame where it is due. That is the decision of the browser authors, not googles fault. All google is guilty of is paying opera and Firefox a lot to be their default search engine. In the case of Firefox, it was in the region of 100 million dollars which substantially helped the Firefox mission.
Google is a hero here. I really dislike the new browser setting too, and am suspicious of googles motives in general, but let's not blame them when they're doing good. I googled how to fix opera not to do that with total success. Sorry I'm on my phone now and can't find the reference but it wasn't hard to find On Jan 21, 2012 6:54 PM, "Denis Heidtmann" <[email protected]> wrote: > On Sat, Jan 21, 2012 at 6:30 PM, John Jason Jordan <[email protected] > >wrote: > > > It used to be that to go to eBay all I had to type in the URL bar was > > "ebay" (Firefox or Opera), and the browser would assume I wanted to > > add .com to the URL. Of course, if I wanted pdxlinux it would assume I > > wanted pddxlinux.com, so you could leave off the .com only with sites > > that were really .com sites. > > > > Several months ago I noticed that Firefox no longer did this. When I > > type "ebay" in the URL bar it takes me to Google. Google lists eBay at > > the top of the hits, but I still have to wait for the Google page to > > load and then click a second time. This is very annoying. Google gets > > the benefit of another web user going to their site and seeing their > > ads, at the expense of the user's time and convenience. > > > > And it does the same now for Opera as well. I've looked everywhere in > > both browsers for a setting to change it back to the old behavior, but > > I can't find it anywhere. Note that I said that I can't find it; I did > > not say it's not there. :) Both browsers have thousands of settings to > > sort through, half of which are incomprehensibly labeled. > > > > Is this another usurpation of the web by the giant that I love to > > hate? Has anyone else noticed this? Or is it my fault again? > > > > > I have noticed it too. I am contemplating a different search engine. > > -Denis > _______________________________________________ > PLUG mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug > _______________________________________________ PLUG mailing list [email protected] http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug
