If given a link i always used google.

If i use the full url in my browser address bar, will it always find the exact page (assuming no server problems)?

Is the typical rule to use a browser for an exact page and use a search engine for a more general search?

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Ever since switching from Internet Explorer to Firefox, I haven't had to cut & paste URL's at all. I have the linkification Extension that will turn any URL into a link. I just click on it and I go to that page.

Edited by - Bill on 9/12/2006 7:56:45 PM

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And the reason, Cumwhipper, why I myself (and, I suspect, others) don't like to have to use the address window is because whatever you type or paste in there remains in the address window drop-down menu, and you can't delete *specific* addresses from it while keeping others. I have some frequently-visited addresses in that menu that I want to remain at the top, and if I've got all these jpg addresses knocking my preferred addresses lower and lower, it's just a big hassle.

Also, another reason is, on the occasions when someone else (family member, non-porn-loving friend, etc.) asks to use my computer, I always have to send them away for a minute while I go into the browser options and erase all of those addresses - which also erases my preferred ones, which means I have to re-enter all my preferred ones when said family member/friend is finished with the 'puter. Hassle!

Which is a long way of saying I too wish Google would go back to hotlinking the unfound search result.

- Dong

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