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• sage - Monday, May 23, 2005 - link

  When I typed in "anandtech", it immediately brought up "http://www.anandtech.com/" since I had been there before. I forced it to only keep "anandtech" and then hit enter. It brought me to http://anandtech/, which is basically "http://www.nume.com/".
  
  Of course, I could only get to nume by forcing it to just accept anandtech. Seems like a problem related to having similar website addresses. But I did have to work to get to nume, normally when I type anandtech it brings me to the right website.

• Vivek Varshney - Monday, May 23, 2005 - link

  Has anyone figured out how to fix this problem? I just installed Tiger and am noticing this problem with both Safari and Opera. I'm running OS X 10.4.1.

• Ron - Thursday, May 19, 2005 - link

  On Windows you can use CTRL+ENTER and it will prefix http://www. and postfix .com
  
  This works for IE, Firefox and most other modern browsers.
  
  There are also tweaks in which you can modify which gTLD/ccTLD is appended instead of the default .com, not sure if 'Tiger' allows for that as well.
  
  HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\Main\UrlTemplate
  
  Allows for other tweaking on incorrectly formatted domains as well, which is especially handy for people who prefer their own ccTLD.
  
  Possibly Tiger has the same functionality and it's this part that's messing with your setup, but it sounds to be more of a DNS server issue. Trying alternative DNS servers would be a quick trial-&-error on that.

• Eric Hagen - Wednesday, May 18, 2005 - link

  Keep in mind that FireFox DOES do the "I'm feeling lucky" search in Google (or your default search engine).
  
  Anandtech and Slashdot both go directly to the site, but if you type in something odd that doesn't have a website (try "sillybox") it will go to the first Google link on that topic, which is at a totally unrelated website.
  
  FireFox on Tiger would do the same thing, which eliminates the possibility that FireFox is doing the same thing as Safari (since Safari does it like MSIE and tries to put .com and .net and .org on the end of the name until it finds a site).
  
  Eric Hagen

• Shar - Monday, May 16, 2005 - link

  Goes right to www.anandtech.com

• dfacc - Sunday, May 1, 2005 - link

  It goes right to www.anandtech.com for me...no problem with safari..
  
  im running golden master version of tiger..

• Jon - Friday, April 29, 2005 - link

  Anand:
  
  Just wondering when your Tiger review will be up. A lot of other sites have posted theirs so I'm interested in your views.

• Amarigny - Thursday, April 28, 2005 - link

  Hello Anand,
  
  Have not had responses from yourself on this thread for a little while (I think I can safely assume that you are very busy) however I was wondering if you had any progress to date. You have eliminated all DNS & Proxy issues by showing that it works on a flushed PC. Yet the Firefox and Safari still getting issues. Might it not have anything to do with default browser settings/options in Safari and/or Firefox that might not be completing the search correctly. The next build will more than likely resolve this. I Hope so anyway.
  
  Regards,
  
  ADM

• anonymus - Wednesday, April 27, 2005 - link

  out of curiousity.... try retyping it right after you get redirected and see if it comes up. Not likely to work, but there had been a problem where it would always search for an ipv6 server, which would time out after a while and then retry. Sadly that would take too long and you'd get an error page before it'd retry but it'd store it's retry for later uses (when you tried again). Might not have anything to do with it, but oh well....

• Childs - Wednesday, April 27, 2005 - link

  Thats strange. I thought these comments used our forums usernames and passwords.