Re: New IE8

[Valdis.Kletnieks () vt edu]

On Thu, 28 Aug 2008 11:04:25 CDT, Big R said:

> "smarter address bar that uses previous history to try and predict the
> requested URL."
>
> Scary?

Maybe, maybe not.  Firefox has been doing something similar for quite
some time with the autocomplete function, which orders the selections based
on (among other things) which you visit most often.  So if I've typed
'www.g' into the location bar, 'www.gamefaqs.com' ends up towards the top
of the list (because I suck and need hints for PS/2 games often), www.gnome.org
shows up at the bottom of the list (because I rarely visit it), and perhaps
surprisingly, www.google.com isn't offered (because my google searches are
almost exclusively entered using the Googlebar extension rather than the
location bar).

Sometimes it does something unexpected or non-obvious - for instance, if you
have just entered a 'b', my top suggestions are bugzilla.redhat.com, our
BigBrother monitoring service server (the hostname starts with a B), and MSNBC,
because the title on their homepage has a lot of 'B's in it...

Was there a reason you thought it was potentially scary?

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