IainC
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Chrome allows you to simply type a search into the address bar. I haven't used Firefox in ages, so don't know what they do.
Firefox has a crappy implementation of this, basically works the same way as Chrome but if you only type 1 word it thinks it is an internet address. Not in my installation of Firefox (13.0.1) it doesn't. It searches on anything that isn't formatted like a URL. It also has autocomplete for recently visited or bookmarked sites. |
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Salamok
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Glad they fixed that, I'm stuck on the 10.0.5 linux version (which still doesn't do single word searches via the address bar) at work and mostly use Chrome at home.
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ghost
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I really like Chrome, but am a bit worried about Google's corporate spying practices.
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Merusk
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People still go to Google's search page? I stopped once I got the search bar up on the right corner of my firefox window.
People still type into the search bar? I stopped when modern browsers allowed you to search from the address bar. I have too large and varied a page history. When I do this I get autocompleted to incorrect places more often than the search I actually want, ergo I continue to use the search bar. |
The past cannot be changed. The future is yet within your power.
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ghost
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If you did your porn searches in an incognito window you wouldn't have that problem, Merusk.  |
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Lantyssa
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I still connect to bulletin boards using my 28k modem to get my URL, just as our Founding Fathers did.
28k!?! In my day we had 300 baud and liked it. Damn Commie pussy. |
Hahahaha! I'm really good at this!
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Murgos
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I don't mind change, I mind change that adds an extra step solely so search providers can serve me more ads and force me to go through their site.
Yes, because "Microsoft", down arrow, enter is hard. What you are missing is that in Chrome the most popular (and your recent) url completions & search strings appear in a drop down as you are typing. For example, having never gone to www.microsoft.com on this PC I only have to get to "Micros" before the top result is the appropriate url. If I had been willing to down arrow a little more I would have had it at Micr. Also, it corrects for typos saving you even more hassle. |
"You have all recieved youre last warning. I am in the process of currently tracking all of youre ips and pinging your home adressess. you should not have commencemed a war with me" - Aaron Rayburn
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Chimpy
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For the last 15+ years I have been able to have a canonical name autocomplete to www.***.com by just typing in the important middle part without the browser ever needing to send that to a search engine. Why do we suddenly, now that google makes a browser, have that option taken away?
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'Reality' is the only word in the language that should always be used in quotes.
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tazelbain
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Their ad revenue is more important.
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"Me am play gods"
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Furiously
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Drill slipped off the screw and went right into my thumb.
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Cyrrex
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Well to be fair...you really shouldn't have had your thumb there to begin with. That's like Drill 101.
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"...maybe if you cleaned the piss out of the sunny d bottles under your desks and returned em, you could upgrade you vid cards, fucken lusers.." - Grunk
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ezrast
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You guys know about ctrl+enter, right?
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Chimpy
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Drill slipped off the screw and went right into my thumb.
Phillips head screws are the devil for reasons like this. Robertsons screws for lyfe, yo! |
'Reality' is the only word in the language that should always be used in quotes.
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Ironwood
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I am majorly in the dog house for taking a reasonably stand against female stupidity.  |
"Mr Soft Owl has Seen Some Shit." - Sun Tzu
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ghost
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Are you still drunk?  What's a "reasonably" stand? |
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Ironwood
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Drafting errors there. I was going for fairly reasonable then went to reasonably rational and by the time I'd finished it pretty much shows my confusion and consternation over anything in the northern hemisphere with a vagina and an attitude, so I'm going to let it stand.
Fuck me.
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"Mr Soft Owl has Seen Some Shit." - Sun Tzu
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ghost
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Need more information before the jury can pass judgment. |
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Pennilenko
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I interpreted it as...arg females being females and i took a stand and got my ass handed to me.
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"See? All of you are unique. And special. Like fucking snowflakes." -- Signe
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Ironwood
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Need more information before the jury can pass judgment. Yeah, I'm going to commit my side of the story in an indelible format on the internet for anyone with access to my history to find. Are you even married ? |
"Mr Soft Owl has Seen Some Shit." - Sun Tzu
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ghost
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You'll have to forgive me for sticking up for your wife.  |
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Ironwood
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I would expect nothing less. You've pretty much demonstrated that in The Baby-Eating Bishop of Bath and Wells Vs Ironwood, you'd think the Bishop actually had some quite valid opinions and that maybe I should just pipe down and leave him to it. |
"Mr Soft Owl has Seen Some Shit." - Sun Tzu
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ghost
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I've got no problem with baby eating.
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Merusk
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Women win because they know you care if they leave.
When you stop caring and turn their tactics around on them, you win a lot more. You just have to be ok with everyone thinking you're a bastard.
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The past cannot be changed. The future is yet within your power.
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Nebu
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I am majorly in the dog house for taking a reasonably stand against female stupidity.
You have my support. I'm against all types of stupidity, even female... |
"Always do what is right. It will gratify half of mankind and astound the other."
- Mark Twain
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ghost
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My wife is awesome. I don't have to deal with any of that bullshit. I'm sure I produce plenty that she has to deal with though. |
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Ironwood
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Women win because they know you care if they leave. Um. No. No, that can't be it. |
"Mr Soft Owl has Seen Some Shit." - Sun Tzu
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Merusk
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Women win because they know you care if they leave. Um. No. No, that can't be it. You're not dealing with a woman. You're dealing with another Scot. Making you miserable is the goal so all the rules change. |
The past cannot be changed. The future is yet within your power.
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ghost
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I thought it was tough to tell the female Scots from the male, what with the beards and all. Also, it's Scotland, where miserable is part of the DNA. Unless you love cold, cold rain, I suppose.
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RhyssaFireheart
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The Baby-Eating Bishop of Bath and Wells Vs Ironwood, Am I the only one who'd read a story about this? Where's Haemish when you need him... I thought it was tough to tell the female Scots from the male, what with the beards and all. Also, it's Scotland, where miserable is part of the DNA. Unless you love cold, cold rain, I suppose.
No, those are dwarves, although in today's cliched D&D worlds, apparently that equates to Scottish. Cliched stereotypes are cliched. |
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ghost
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Hey, I grew up in Kentucky, one of the cesspits of the universe. I think I can poke fun just a smidge. |
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schild
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Zynga stock hit $4.49 today. Just saying.
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Hammond
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The Baby-Eating Bishop of Bath and Wells Vs Ironwood, Am I the only one who'd read a story about this? Where's Haemish when you need him... Isn't the Baby-Eating Bishop of Bath and Wells from a Blackadder episode? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Money_(Blackadder) Not sure if it was in a book or not though. |
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Nebu
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Zynga stock hit $4.49 today. Just saying.
The Dog House will be pleased. |
"Always do what is right. It will gratify half of mankind and astound the other."
- Mark Twain
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ghost
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Zynga stock hit $4.49 today. Just saying.
Hopefully you sold all your stock, if you had any. |
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HaemishM
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Drafting errors there. I was going for fairly reasonable then went to reasonably rational and by the time I'd finished it pretty much shows my confusion and consternation over anything in the northern hemisphere with a vagina and an attitude, so I'm going to let it stand.
Fuck me.
Such vagaries are not limited to the northern hemisphere. |
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