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July 05, 2006
Typing in location bars
Typing in location bars: CNET reports that typing into the location bar of Internet Explorer, without "http://" type prefixes, can activate an application of similar name stored on the desktop. I'm guessing the request goes through the Windows registry, but I'm not comfortable exposing my local drive in a WWW browsing environment like that. In Firefox, this behavior is different... typing a search term into the location bar (not the search field) brings you to the page with the top rank for that term at Google. I've been using this "I feel lucky" technique a lot more lately... typing "get flash player" in the URL field to go directly to the Adobe download page, etc. I'm not sure how other browsers handle non-URLs typed into their location bars -- it takes awhile for such edge features to make their way into specs.
Posted by John Dowdell at July 5, 2006 05:43 PM
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