Author: Craig Date: To: Hampshire LUG Discussion List Subject: Re: [Hampshire] Firefox Annoyance
On Sun, 2008-06-29 at 16:18 +0100, Simon Reap wrote: > Craig wrote:
> > Hello all,
> This is possibly "Domain guessing". If Firefox gets a "not found" error
> back from a DNS server, it will trya dding the configured prefix and/or
> suffix to see whether that works. The defaults are www. and .com, and
> it is enabled. To turn it off, go to about:config, and double-click
> browser.fixup.alternate.enabled to set it to false.
>
> Then again, DNS servers can try various tricks to resolve names, so it
> may actually be that which is happening.
>
> Simon
That fixed it. Thanks! about:config seems like a very useful place too,
so thanks for showing me it.
