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So I'm not the only one. It's even worse than that though, enter 'myintranetsite' and hit return, and you end up on a Google search page. Instead you have to e

So I'm not the only one. It's even worse than that though, enter 'myintranetsite' and hit return, and you end up on a Google search page. Instead you have to enter 'http://myintranetsite' http://myintranetsite'

mschuster91 6y ago
Type myintranetsite/ instead, this is faster than http:// http:// in front.
- paulintrognon 6y ago
  Wow, a usefull shortcut I was not aware of. Thanks.
- londons_explore 6y ago
  As you type, the name is still being sent to Google for search suggestions with every keystroke until the final "/". If you prefix with "http://" http://", no requests are made to Google (except "h", "ht", "htt", "http", and "http:")
  - reificator 6y ago
    > If you prefix with "http://" http://", no requests are made to Google (except "h", "ht", "htt", "http", and "http:") This seems surprising to me. Can you back up this claim?
    - andinus 6y ago
      If you have search suggestions enabled then "http:" will be sent. Firefox disables them in Private Browsing mode for this reason. - https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/search-suggestions-firefox https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/search-suggestions-fire...
      - reificator 6y ago
        No I get that part. I guess I just had a different interpretation of "no requests are made to Google". It seems "no requests" was intended to be "no search suggestion requests" and not "no requests that leak this information to google".
      - MaxBarraclough 6y ago
        > If you have search suggestions enabled then "http:" will be sent What's the point of sending those characters?
        antsar 6y ago
        Search Suggestions. You typed "h", maybe you want to search for "harpoons". "ht" might suggest "htaccess". "http" might be a search for "httpie". etc.
        MaxBarraclough 6y ago
        Yes, of course :-P