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On Mon, 6 Mar 2023 08:24:35 +0000, Wols Lists wrote: |
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> > Do you mean /etc/nsswitch.conf? |
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> Ah yes. Any idea why Firefox seems to ignore it? Whenever I try to |
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> browse to local machines in /etc/hosts, firefox gives me a google |
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> search page which is a bloody nuisance. If I type a VALID ADDRESS in |
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> the ADDRESS BAR, that's where I expect to go! Not some damn random |
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> search page! |
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I see the same with Chromium sometimes, as the same input field is used |
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for addresses and search terms and the browser has to make a guess at |
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which you mean. With Chromium the solution is to add a trailing slash. |
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Neil Bothwick |
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There are two hard things in computer science: |
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cache invalidation, naming things and off-by-one errors. |