This bugs the ever loving snot out of me. Go type in a domain without the suffix into the IE address bar. Example: “Amazon”. This fails with the a “website can’t be found error” because “http://amazon/” isn’t a valid address. Well, duh, you piece of stinky guano. Why not add the dot com automatically? Like Safari does? We. Have. The. Technology. What IE wants you to do here is type the name and then hit control-enter. This fills out the www and dot com and this works. But god help you if you hit control-enter and you already have the domain suffix or www prefix entered. You’re like to get “http://www.amazon.com.com” or “http://www.www.foo.net.com”. For phuck sake what decendant of Albert Einstein thought up this feature? Mr or Mrs Wedumb? I think so.
Note that in order for you get sucked into this feature poop pit, you have to turn off searching from the address bar in the advanced preferences (don’t get me started on scrolling lists of checkboxes and radio buttons). Hate the searching. Never gets it right and it destroys whatever I’ve typed in. Ninety percent of the time it’s a typo and it goes to the wrong site or gives me an error, but either way it destroys what I’ve typed in the address bar. Which makes me want to snap someone’s neck like one of those long matches I light my barbecue with. Ok, maybe that’s a bit on the violent side, but come on. Who designed this? Mr or Mrs Weannoyu? I think so.
Safari does this right. If you type in “amazon” – it’s going to add www and dot com. And it’s not going to add it twice. And if either the prefix or the suffix is there already, it’s not going to flap it arms and run around the room screaming like a monkey shot with a pellet gun. Yes, IE 6 sometimes acts like a monkey.
Sigh. These things bother me.
