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FireFox - Feeling Lucky?

So, quite by accident, I stumbled on to something a bit trippy about FireFox.

Paste: "Team Foundation" into Firefox -- where the url would go. Not http://somethingsomething. Just "something something." Try it out a bit with other phrases. For example.. try "Michael K Campbell" or try "Dell Axim" etc.

The key to what's going on is to watch your status bar... and watch how FF resolves the request. It would appear that FF feels lucky when you do this. Maybe we should call this GNR - Google Name Resolution?

posted on Wednesday, May 18, 2005 9:18 AM
 

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