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Python files vs Paraguayan domains
Am I the only one annoyed when Google Chrome tries to lookup for a Paraguayan domain when I search for a python file (e.g alignlib.py ) directly from the adress bar?
Is there a way to prevent this?
Thanks in advance.
- S4M 12y agoHow about entering: python alignlib.py
- JadeNB 12y agoWhat if you want to read about the snakes of Paraguay (http://animals.pawnation.com/snakes-paraguay-6701.html http://animals.pawnation.com/snakes-paraguay-6701.html)? :-) Of course I'm being facetious, but I think that 0x006A's point (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8267484 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8267484) is a good one—this sort of attempt to be (in my opinion, too) clever will always eventually run into undesireable edge cases.
- 0x006A 12y agoRight now you can only get .py domains as subdomains of these second-level domains: - com.py - coop.py - edu.py - mil.py - gov.py - org.py - net.py - una.py And there are some domains used like nic.py. Possibly Chrome could fall back to search if its not one of the subdomains. But this is clearly a case where the idea of search box and url bar in one field does not work. This will happen more often as we get more of those random TLDs.
- McDiesel 12y agoput a ? before it... address bar of [? alignlib.py] searches for alignlib.py ... not sure if this is intentional or just htat google drops special chars, but it works 100% of the time most of the time.
- brudgers 12y agoIs there a way to prevent this? Use a browser with separate search and location fields [such as Firefox]. Type search terms into the search field when searching. For convenience, the search field in browsers with separate search field can receive focus using ctrl-k key combination.