browser rant (was: "funny" URL redirections)

[John Vetterli]

On Thu, 26 May 2005, Henry Spencer wrote:
> When I tried it on my ancient Netscape, it couldn't find a host named
> "http", so it asked search.netscape.com to search on that word, and the
> first page of results shows www.microsoft.com at the top.  Most likely,
> Firefox is doing the same sort of thing but is hiding the intermediate
> steps.

This kind of "helpfulness" is one reason why I dislike windows.  Give me a 
browser that does what I want and only what I want and I'm be happy.

Dillo is close.

JV
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