Good laugh thanks to Firefox glitch

ElysiumGX · Feb 2005

One thing I noticed about Firefox now that I've completely switched over is that occasionally you're not always sent to the website you're looking for. Sometimes it's a best guess or DNS server problem.

I typed in "uselessjunk" in the address bar a second ago and was sent to this website.
http://www.easports.com/games/madden2005/

I was trying to visit uselessjunk.com (NSFW) on my lunch. What a weird coincidence. I can't get it to repeat. But damn that was funny.

Is this a common problem with Firefox users?

JKMakowka · Feb 2005

Could it be that you visited that site before, or had the adress copied in your clipboard?

Nostradamus · Feb 2005

happens to me sometimes

ElysiumGX · Feb 2005

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Could it be that you visited that site before, or had the adress copied in your clipboard?

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hehe, not possible

Michael Knubben · Feb 2005

Err, maybe i'm missing something, but if you just typed in "useless junk", then you did a "feeling lucky" google-search for useless junk.
And maybe google was responsible for it, not firefox. I don't know excactly how the feeling lucky thing works, but it might just have changed.

Moz · Feb 2005

still, at the end of the day, corporate EA pretty much sucks.

ElysiumGX · Feb 2005

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then you did a "feeling lucky" google-search for useless junk.

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i typed it into Firefox's address bar, not the Google bar. I actually typed out part of the address, then the history bar displayed the rest, which I clicked on. Just now I tried the google "feeling lucky" button, it takes me to the right site. This was just a random coincidence I assume. It happens occasionally. I could wake up one morning, and hit this forums bookmark and I'll end up at some random site I've never seen before. Ok, it was interesting. Move along. Nothing to see here.

CheapAlert · Feb 2005

Heh, I remember just typing HTTP brought me to a html forum

Michael Knubben · Feb 2005

elysium: typing in the addres bar without any www. or .com/.org etc... does a google feeling lucky search
If you type google, and then a searchterm, it'll do a google-search (i've changed it to just "g", and it serves me much better than the searchbar, also because i'm a screenclutter-nazi)

Edit: gargoyle: err, that IS normal. google lucky search, as i explained before.
Right now typing http will probably lead you to microsoft
But yeah, the way you describe it IS weird

KDR_11k · Feb 2005

Try "g failure".

Good laugh thanks to Firefox glitch

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