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<P><FONT SIZE=2>It is not firefox but google does this search. If you try www.google.com and enter http, the first site on the search result is microsoft's website.</FONT></P>
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<P><FONT SIZE=2>-----Original Message-----</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2>From: lsorense-1wCw9BSqJbv44Nm34jS7GywD8/FfD2ys@public.gmane.org [<A HREF="mailto:lsorense-1wCw9BSqJbv44Nm34jS7GywD8/FfD2ys@public.gmane.org">mailto:lsorense-1wCw9BSqJbvhPd27EkBTGA@public.gmane.orgerloo.ca</A>] </FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2>Sent: May 26, 2005 3:51 PM</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2>To: tlug-lxSQFCZeNF4@public.gmane.org</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2>Subject: Re: [TLUG]: "funny" URL redirections</FONT>
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<P><FONT SIZE=2>On Thu, May 26, 2005 at 01:57:38PM -0400, Taavi Burns wrote:</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2>> But it's not, as this happens when using Firefox on Linux. :( It's </FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2>> more likely that Microsoft has spammed the DNS servers somehow. </FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2>> (exactly how I haven't yet been able to figure out...)</FONT>
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<P><FONT SIZE=2>Opera turns word into word.com first, so http becomes www.http.com, while firefox appears to do some other order of trying suffixes and prefixes. So microsoft owns http.something where something is what firefox tries to add, but apparently is not what opera tries to add (or at least not in the same order.)</FONT></P>
<P><FONT SIZE=2>> It's not http.com, http.net, or http.org. Typing those in manually </FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2>> provides different websites, not Microsoft.</FONT>
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<P><FONT SIZE=2>Yeah, I wonder which it is. .net, .org and .com don't seem to be it.</FONT>
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<P><FONT SIZE=2>Lennart Sorensen</FONT>
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