"For instance, just typing slashdot would bring up this site, instead of slashdot.org"
It already does for me. Thanks to Firefox working like a Google I'm Feeling Lucky search when you don't enter anything other than a search phrase into the address bar:)
A link in the chat window opens in the default browser (Firefox for me) but any links in the application window (the contact list, etc.) will open in IE. I wondered why it did this so I analysed the reqest sent to the system when the link is clicked. It turns out that MSN request the default HTTP handler for links in the chat window however it requests IE specificly when you click a link in the main window. One would assume this is because almost every link in the main window goes to a MS site and we all know that MS sites tend to only work well with IE.
Hope this helps:)
Agreed. Personally I wish that RSS had been made as an extension and bundled with the default install not built right into the browser as it adds bloat to Firefox which I do not want. Better tab control would have been a better internal addition to Firefox than RSS IMO.
Saying that I am a FeedDemon user;)
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Then do like IE and Opera and go by the extension!
"For instance, just typing slashdot would bring up this site, instead of slashdot.org"
:)
It already does for me. Thanks to Firefox working like a Google I'm Feeling Lucky search when you don't enter anything other than a search phrase into the address bar
A link in the chat window opens in the default browser (Firefox for me) but any links in the application window (the contact list, etc.) will open in IE. I wondered why it did this so I analysed the reqest sent to the system when the link is clicked. It turns out that MSN request the default HTTP handler for links in the chat window however it requests IE specificly when you click a link in the main window. One would assume this is because almost every link in the main window goes to a MS site and we all know that MS sites tend to only work well with IE. Hope this helps :)
Agreed. Personally I wish that RSS had been made as an extension and bundled with the default install not built right into the browser as it adds bloat to Firefox which I do not want. Better tab control would have been a better internal addition to Firefox than RSS IMO. Saying that I am a FeedDemon user ;)