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[Collins]

On 25 Sep 2002 12:35:28 -0700 Aaron Grewell <agrewell at uwb.edu> wrote:
> To state the obvious, I think we have a bit of a misunderstanding
> here. If I understand Lee correctly, he's complaining that when you
> type stuff in the location bar of Mozilla and press <Enter> it tries
> to load"www.stuff you typed.com" and gives an error.  Netscape and
> IE both send the stuff you typed to a search engine automagically
> and look it up for you.  I realize that's not what he said, but I'm
> pretty sure that's what he meant.  Fixing this in Mozilla requires
> some hacking of prefs.js to make it "do the right thing".  



> > > > On Wed, 25 Sep 2002, Lee wrote:
> > > >
> > > >>Mozilla is critically flawed in that it has no search engine
> > > >
> > > >
> > > > For starters, i'm not even sure you're right about this.  But
> > > > even if you are, why should a web browser have a search engine
> > > > integrated into it? Does the word bloat mean anything to you?
> > >

> > 
> > > information that may not be in http format such as the Hykosis
> > > Kings who ruled Egypt at the time of the Exodus. Typing in
> > > Hykosis Kings into user search or even Exodus yields can't find
> > > server if using mozilla default page or if using netscape for
> > > home page it will default to Ask Jeeves search engine under
> > > netscape. 

All this sounds like a tempest in a teapot to me:

1. I have no problem going to google for searches.  The sample
misspelled search item above Hykosis instead of Hyskos is fielded by
google just fine.

2.  One of the "preferred browsers" that automagically invokes a
search automagically sucks badly.  If I key in some garbage, I want to
know about it quickly rather than after passing it off to any number
of search engines!

3.  Unlike some, I have no prejudice against Netscape.  I just don't
really like full blown Mozilla or Netscape, since I'm only looking for
a Browser; that's why I like Skipstone or one of the other Gecko
derivatives.

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