JC Francois (40)
I fell into computing and networking when I was a little boy
I work in business development for an IT company
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JC Francois (40)
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Microfox
JC — February 27, 2005 - 16:56
I just discovered a funny curiosity in Firefox.
I got distracted as I was typing an URL in the address bar of Firefox and mistakenly typed twice the protocol identifier (http://) before the address of the site I wanted to visit. To my immense surprise, when I pressed enter I didn't see the familiar page I expected but the most unexpected home page of all...
If you are using Firefox, just click http://http://www.mozilla.org and see for yourself...
Note for the others: the unfortunate Firefox user is simply taken straight to Microsoft's home page! It works on Windows and Linux.
No conspiracy here though, it works with any URL, not just mozilla.org.
Reason
Cornelius (not verified) — March 4, 2005 - 20:07I actually ran into this one once before and figured out why... When firefox parses the url and determines that it isn't a valid, it drops the text into google and redirects you to the "I'm feeling lucky" equivalent. Microsoft.com managed to secure the top position in google for the term "http", so that is where you get redirected to when you mistype a url.