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Does anything?
Telemetry does.
pithily said!
Shortest URLs on the Internet
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Re: Shortest URLs on the Internet
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The bigger question is what percentage of users would like a separate search / location field. Merging them created this problem but now that screens are bigger I think we can afford another textbox.
> I think we can afford another textbox. I say kill the concept of integrated search altogether. Search is a web page and should never be part of a web browser. Ever. It allows web browsers to sell that search bar default setting to the highest bidder. Or if your google, drive traffic to your advertising search engine using technologies that directly benefit its bottom line and nothing else. Besides, searching sucks.…
>It allows web browsers to sell that search bar default to the highest bidder.
Does Mozilla do that?
Re: Shortest URLs on the Internet
#203You can also use Unicode ligatures to make URls which look shorter. From that list, you could use http:// ㎝. / - that's U+339D if HN mangles it. I wrote it up at https://shkspr.mobi/blog/2020/08/buying-a-single-character-d...
Ah funny, firefox display it as a link, refuse to open said link, have a context menu to copy the link, but not open it.
Re: Shortest URLs on the Internet
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trivial to enable but badly maintained. When I enabled that originally it broke the search bar on the default new tab page. The default behavior is also nonsensical if you want to access anything on the local network by name.
I have been using the separate search bar for, idk, 10(?) years and I have never encountered a single bug with it (including the one you describe). Maybe you should give it another chance and chalk that up to an issue with the initial rollout, which is a standard thing to happen on virtually every software release. > The default behavior is also nonsensical if you want to access anything on the local network by name.…
> Ok, and what percent of users do you think that affects?
And that right here is the same argument you can make for showing the hand full of remaining Firefox users a "this site requires a modern browser, download chrome here" message. After all the amount of users affected by that is a fucking rounding error.
Re: Shortest URLs on the Internet
#205Earlier quoted context omitted.
> I think we can afford another textbox. I say kill the concept of integrated search altogether. Search is a web page and should never be part of a web browser. Ever. It allows web browsers to sell that search bar default setting to the highest bidder. Or if your google, drive traffic to your advertising search engine using technologies that directly benefit its bottom line and nothing else. Besides, searching sucks.…
>It allows web browsers to sell that search bar default to the highest bidder. Does Mozilla do that?
I assume yes since the default search is Yahoo when they could/should partner with DDG.
Re: Shortest URLs on the Internet
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Anguilla is a tourist destination, there is obviously stuff people want to do...
Tourist destinations get old real quick though.
New York, Los Angeles, London, Tokyo, Paris, and many others are all tourist destinations and people seem to love to live there
Re: Shortest URLs on the Internet
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I have been using the separate search bar for, idk, 10(?) years and I have never encountered a single bug with it (including the one you describe). Maybe you should give it another chance and chalk that up to an issue with the initial rollout, which is a standard thing to happen on virtually every software release. > The default behavior is also nonsensical if you want to access anything on the local network by name.…
> Ok, and what percent of users do you think that affects? And that right here is the same argument you can make for showing the hand full of remaining Firefox users a "this site requires a modern browser, download chrome here" message. After all the amount of users affected by that is a fucking rounding error.
That is not remotely the same argument. Designing efficient UX != ensuring open standards on the Web
Re: Shortest URLs on the Internet
#208Just to check: Could it be that pihole (dnsmasq) has an issue with these dotless domains? I'm getting a NXDOMAIN for `dig ai.`, but when directly doing with an upstream server (i.e. 8.8.8.8 or 1.1.1.1) it perfectly works. I assume this is the result of the `Never forward non-FQDN A and AAAA queries` setting being checked in pi-hole (which is AFAIK the default).
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