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   Haelwenn /элвэн/ :triskell: (lanodan@queer.hacktivis.me)'s status on Friday, 09-Feb-2024 08:08:31 JST Haelwenn /элвэн/ :triskell:
   > type URL in firefox *URL* entry
   > forget the http://
   > it goes to Google
   
   Right, the 2nd browser of Google.
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     Haelwenn /элвэн/ :triskell: (lanodan@queer.hacktivis.me)'s status on Friday, 09-Feb-2024 08:17:14 JST Haelwenn /элвэн/ :triskell:

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     • vv221
     @vv221 The only proper behavior I'd accept is either adding http:// or properly failing, because no unintended requests should *ever* be made.
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     vv221 (vv221@fediverse.dotslashplay.it)'s status on Friday, 09-Feb-2024 08:17:16 JST vv221

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     Mine goes to Wikipedia instead, a shame this is not the default behaviour…
     
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     Haelwenn /элвэн/ :triskell: (lanodan@queer.hacktivis.me)'s status on Friday, 09-Feb-2024 08:20:23 JST Haelwenn /элвэн/ :triskell:

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     Go away Internet Explorer for Linux.
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     Polychrome :blabcat: (polychrome@poly.cybre.city)'s status on Friday, 09-Feb-2024 08:24:05 JST Polychrome :blabcat:

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     @lanodan can disable that in about:config but I wish they made it more obvious.
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     Haelwenn /элвэн/ :triskell: (lanodan@queer.hacktivis.me)'s status on Friday, 09-Feb-2024 08:25:06 JST Haelwenn /элвэн/ :triskell:

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     @Polychrome about:config only?
     I guess I'm never touching firefox again.
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     Polychrome :blabcat: (polychrome@poly.cybre.city)'s status on Friday, 09-Feb-2024 08:25:12 JST Polychrome :blabcat:

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     @lanodan it's been awhile, maybe they've added a more obvious checkbox.
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     Haelwenn /элвэн/ :triskell: (lanodan@queer.hacktivis.me)'s status on Friday, 09-Feb-2024 08:26:03 JST Haelwenn /элвэн/ :triskell:

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     Also I love how it's undistinguishable from Chrome even all the way to bugs…
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     oTerm (relected@shitposter.club)'s status on Friday, 09-Feb-2024 08:27:52 JST oTerm

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     @lanodan what do you use?
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     Haelwenn /элвэн/ :triskell: (lanodan@queer.hacktivis.me)'s status on Friday, 09-Feb-2024 08:27:52 JST Haelwenn /элвэн/ :triskell:

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     • oTerm
     @Relected Safari For Linux. (joke aside, I use badwolf, which is based on webkit-gtk hence "Safari")
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     H. Faust (hfaust@shitposter.club)'s status on Friday, 09-Feb-2024 08:28:41 JST H. Faust

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     @lanodan SOVL
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     Haelwenn /элвэн/ :triskell: (lanodan@queer.hacktivis.me)'s status on Friday, 09-Feb-2024 08:42:58 JST Haelwenn /элвэн/ :triskell:

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     By the way:
     - Firefox is as indie as your favorite popstar
     - This pop-in is both based on a dark pattern and has no way to say "No/never", only "not now"
     - Remember when people chose Firefox to avoid popups? I've constantly been getting the opposite these last few years (and no I won't take the ages to fix every little thing in about:config like if it would be disabling the anti-features of Windows 10)
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     Haelwenn /элвэн/ :triskell: (lanodan@queer.hacktivis.me)'s status on Friday, 09-Feb-2024 08:44:16 JST Haelwenn /элвэн/ :triskell:

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     @vv221 It's based on the local hostname of my machine therefore a single word.

     Full one that I inserted being nightmaremoon/crosscode/node-webkit.html

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     vv221 (vv221@fediverse.dotslashplay.it)'s status on Friday, 09-Feb-2024 08:44:17 JST vv221

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     By the way I’m curious about the URL that triggered that for you. Because if I input "example" I get a search, but if I input "example.com" I get directed to "
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     vv221 (vv221@fediverse.dotslashplay.it)'s status on Friday, 09-Feb-2024 08:48:09 JST vv221

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     Ah, got it, this is indeed a big problem here.
     
     This can be prevented by using "localhost" as the domain, but I agree that getting a search triggered in such a situation would make me furious. Especially a search on Google !
     
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     alcinnz (alcinnz@floss.social)'s status on Friday, 09-Feb-2024 08:54:00 JST alcinnz

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     @lanodan These popups deter me... Which is clearly opposite from their intention!

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     Haelwenn /элвэн/ :triskell: (lanodan@queer.hacktivis.me)'s status on Friday, 09-Feb-2024 08:56:04 JST Haelwenn /элвэн/ :triskell:

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     @alcinnz Which obviously cannot be good for browser compatibility towards firefox because if it's not set as your browser of choice, it's going to nag you at every launch.
     Pretty sure some web developers just don't want to deal with firefox anymore.
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     Haelwenn /элвэн/ :triskell: (lanodan@queer.hacktivis.me)'s status on Friday, 09-Feb-2024 11:26:20 JST Haelwenn /элвэн/ :triskell:

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     @iron_bug *their* default search engine and even then it wouldn't fix the bug of leaking what's otherwise a fine but slightly incomplete URL.
     
     And I consider that if firefox would be the independent browser they claim to be the choice would be upfront and there would be no default.
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     Iron Bug (iron_bug@friendica.ironbug.org)'s status on Friday, 09-Feb-2024 11:26:21 JST Iron Bug

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     @lanodan no, it goes to whatever you set up as your default search engine. and if Google is not your default search engine then it does to the selected search. search engines are many. and you can set default params to pass to a search engine to use them by default,
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     Haelwenn /элвэн/ :triskell: (lanodan@queer.hacktivis.me)'s status on Friday, 09-Feb-2024 13:14:49 JST Haelwenn /элвэн/ :triskell:

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     @iron_bug I'm aware I can change the default, but whatever default I change a ever slightly mistyped URL would leak to a search engine.
     That's the issue, don't fucking change the subject.
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     Iron Bug (iron_bug@friendica.ironbug.org)'s status on Friday, 09-Feb-2024 13:14:52 JST Iron Bug

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     @lanodan YOU select tbe default search engine. you can add there whatever you want.
     read this:
     support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/c…
     and stop bulshitting.
     I don't even use duking FF for ages, and I know this. you don't know the shit you use and spread some weird crap here.
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     Haelwenn /элвэн/ :triskell: (lanodan@queer.hacktivis.me)'s status on Friday, 09-Feb-2024 13:16:55 JST Haelwenn /элвэн/ :triskell:

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     @iron_bug And a *default* is on mozilla by very definition, otherwise it's not a default, it's a user setting change.
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     vv221 (vv221@fediverse.dotslashplay.it)'s status on Friday, 09-Feb-2024 13:24:36 JST vv221

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     The field on top of the Firefox UI by default is an URL and search bar, so I don’t see the search behaviour as inappropriate. Only the choice of the default search engine.
     
     Obviously it is problematic that a pure search field can be added but not a pure URL one.
     
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     Haelwenn /элвэн/ :triskell: (lanodan@queer.hacktivis.me)'s status on Friday, 09-Feb-2024 15:18:27 JST Haelwenn /элвэн/ :triskell:

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     @iron_bug What the fuck, I can't even.
     - Great a hack, as usual when you want firefox to Just Work.
     - Nice race to the bottom.
     - Since when is privacy about shame.
     - None of that was shameful, I want browsers to load the URLs I give it, not fuck around.
     - I'm pretty sure my ISP doesn't spies, if it would I would have changed of it already. By the way even if they would try, it's trivial to avoid, specially at URL level (HTTPS has been a thing since Netscape).
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     Iron Bug (iron_bug@friendica.ironbug.org)'s status on Friday, 09-Feb-2024 15:18:28 JST Iron Bug

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     @lanodan turn it off by typing some stub instead of search engine, if you're visiting sites that are so shameful for somebody to know about. or don't visit any sites at all: your ISP knows where ya go every damn time and cowardly spies on you (not, really, because nobody gives a heck).
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     LEdoian (ledoian@pleroma.ledoian.cz)'s status on Friday, 09-Feb-2024 16:54:55 JST LEdoian

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     @lanodan > Also changes the URL (/doesn't keep the original one) so it is hard to fixup

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     Haelwenn /элвэн/ :triskell: (lanodan@queer.hacktivis.me)'s status on Friday, 09-Feb-2024 16:56:52 JST Haelwenn /элвэн/ :triskell:

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     @ledoian Yeah, which just adds to the frustration, at least here it was a bad copy-paste.
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     LEdoian (ledoian@pleroma.ledoian.cz)'s status on Friday, 09-Feb-2024 17:49:58 JST LEdoian

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     @lanodan Also it made me mad that firefox would "autocorrect" the domain names, like .vom → .com, or try automatically adding www prefix. I think it used to do that even if the changed site didn't exist, so it only made things worse…

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     LEdoian (ledoian@pleroma.ledoian.cz)'s status on Friday, 09-Feb-2024 17:50:00 JST LEdoian

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     @lanodan For me it used to be some misspelling somewhere. And since that lead to repeated frustration, I went to fiddling with about:config quite fast to stop that.
     
     But it is funny that the search bar *doesn't* mangle its contents on search lol.
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     Haelwenn /элвэн/ :triskell: (lanodan@queer.hacktivis.me)'s status on Friday, 09-Feb-2024 17:51:32 JST Haelwenn /элвэн/ :triskell:

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     • LEdoian
     @ledoian haven't had that in a serious while, somehow it seems to be a distant memory, like 10+ years ago