[clug] some Firefox questions

[Kim Holburn]

I find adding the full URL should do that ie: http://e7

Does that work?

On 2007/Aug/28, at 12:46 PM, Eyal Lebedinsky wrote:

> Kim Holburn wrote:
>> On 2007/Aug/28, at 2:24 AM, Eyal Lebedinsky wrote:
>>> I have a few questions about configuring Firefox. I have RH/F9  
>>> here, Firefox 2.0.
>>>
>>> I had a look at about:config and could not clearly see it there.
>>>
>>> 1) I want to get the download prompt when I click a link to a non  
>>> html filetype,
>>>    and never launch an application (I will then configure some  
>>> application
>>>    helpers myself). For example, pdf files now launch a viewer  
>>> and I want to
>>>    stop this. My preferences show that no file types are configured.
>> It's not in about:config it's about MIME handling.
>> In Firefox 1 there was a mime extension.  It doesn't work in  
>> Firefox 2.  Preferences->Content->Configure how firefox handles  
>> certain types of file ?
>> That said there are 2 separate issues.  When you click on a link  
>> that has an extension that extension could mean anything to the  
>> server, it is defined in the server.  The client is told by the  
>> first line of response from the server what mime type the URL  
>> actually is, then the file follows.  I forget the exact format of  
>> this but it's something like:
>> "html/plain\n\n"
>> for a normal html file.
>> For a file ending in .pdf it mostly is a PDF file but the browser  
>> only knows this because of the mime type the server has told it.
>> To view a PDF as a PDF rather than download it, requires a  
>> plugin.  I hate that too.  Find and ditch the plugin.
>>> 2) Typing a bad URL activates a search. I want this to never happen.
>> there are 2 settings in firefox:
>> keyword.URL
>> keyword.enabled
>
> Yes, this did it. Thanks. How about a follow-up question?
>
> I now get Firefox attempting to fetch 'www.yadayadayada.com' when I  
> type
> 'yadayadayada' in the address. I would like to disable this  
> completion.
> I really want Firefox to only go to the exact address that I want.
>
> I found when I want to access my own local machine (e.g. e7) Firefox
> brings back 'www.e7.com' and not the local address  
> (e7.eyal.emu.id.au).
>
>> set keyword.enabled to false
>>> 3) Whenever I update Firefox it goes to a Mozilla webpage rather  
>>> than to my
>>>    configured home. I do not like this "call home" feature, is  
>>> there an option
>>>    to disable this?
>> For my system I think this is a once off for each upgrade.  After  
>> the first upgrade page my firefox reverts to it's normal "home  
>> page".  I just shut it.
>> -- 
>> Kim Holburn
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>
>
> -- 
> Eyal Lebedinsky	(eyal at eyal.emu.id.au)

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Kim Holburn
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Ph: +39 06 855 4294  M: +39 3494957443
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Democracy imposed from without is the severest form of tyranny.
                           -- Lloyd Biggle, Jr. Analog, Apr 1961