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Comment Re:Why bother? (Score 1) 351

by jgalun (#26025071) Attached to: Firefox 2.0 Update To Remove Phishing Detection

I've been using Mozilla since M12 or so, but the awesome bar drives me crazy. If I start typing "nytimes," I want it to find www.nytimes.com. I don't want it to find a blog entry whose title is "NYTimes Fails Again" or some page at the nytimes that I visited more recently than the homepage (like www.nytimes.com/oped/krugman14.html).

I know the sites I browse to. I just want Firefox to autocomplete to the domain. I don't need it to search my browser history for me, because I know where I want to go.

I'm not saying that the Awesome Bar is bad, or attacking people who do like it. I just don't like it, and I finally decided recently to downgrade back to 2.0. I hope Firefox 3.1 gives us a lot more control over how the Awesome Bar operates.
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China Defines Internet Addiction 201

Posted by ScuttleMonkey from the one-more-addiction-to-the-list dept.
narramissic writes "Three years after the first clinic dedicated to Internet addiction opened in Beijing, Chinese doctors have now officially defined it as an ailment. Those afflicted with this ailment spend six or more hours a day online and exhibit at least one of the following symptoms: difficulty sleeping or concentrating, yearning to be online, irritation, and mental or physical distress. Do you meet the criteria? You're in good company: About 10 percent of China's 253 million Internet users exhibit some form of addiction to the medium, and 70 percent of those people are young men, an official Xinhua News Agency report said."

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