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> browsers started prefixing "www." and suffixing ".com" whenever one typed a bare word in the address bar Your browser does that? Mine opens a (hard to change

by t_mann 4y ago

> browsers started prefixing "www." and suffixing ".com" whenever one typed a bare word in the address bar Your browser does that? Mine opens a (hard to change) default search engine.

MarkSweep 4y ago
This does work if you press Control+Enter instead of just Enter.
cesarb 4y ago
Nowadays they do that, but in the past (think of the old Netscape and MSIE days) they used to just prefix "www." and suffix ".com"; there was no "default search engine" back then.