47772 - RFE: ctrl enter to add www....com

Status: VERIFIED DUPLICATE of bug 37867

(SeaMonkey :: General, enhancement, P5)

Description

[David Hugh-Jones]

add www. and .com around a word in the url field by hitting ctrl and enter. Make
my life easier.

You can do it in IE, you know.

Comment 1

[Matthew T (active 1999-2002)]

10. Thou shalt foreswear, renounce, and abjure the vile heresy which claimeth 
that `All the world's a .com', and have no commerce with the benighted heathens 
who cling to this barbarous belief -- that the days of thy auto-complete 
algorithm's usefulness may be long, even though the days of thy current TLDs be 
short.

        -- adapted from `The ten commandments for C programmers' by Henry Spencer

Comment 2

[David Hugh-Jones]

Now now, don't be snobbish. There is a perfectly good autocomplete algorithm already, which does not assume anything about .com. This would be a useful addition for users who
know they are going to a dot com, and want to go there faster by hitting Ctrl enter. I am not an avid dot com user but even so about 50% of my browsing is to dot coms.

Comment 3

[Alex]

I'm lowering the importance of this feature request, it isnt a blocker nor P1
although i would find it very useful

Comment 4

[Matthew T (active 1999-2002)]

I'm not being snobbish. Just if we do this, we implicitly encourage the use of 
.com for sites which don't really belong in .com-land, and encourage non-.com 
(e.g. .org) sites to take the equivalent .com even when they don't need it, which 
in turn reduces the number of names available in the international DNS, which in 
turn forces sites to choose more obscure names, which markedly reduces the 
usability of the Web as a whole. *That*'s what I care about.

See also bug 37867.

Anyways, this has nothing to do with the ActiveX wrapper. Changing component 
back.

Comment 5

[Peter 'Rufus' Nelson]

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 37867 ***

Comment 6

[jorge o. castro]

verified dup of 37867