When IE7 can not find a a site it opens the startpage instead. I find this very annoying, since this causes extra useless traffic, I'd rather see a error message (404 or whatever) like in any other browser (including ie6). What can I do?
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bonk
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bonk wrote:When IE7 can not find a a site it opens the startpage instead. I find this very annoying, since this causes extra useless traffic, I'd rather see a error message (404 or whatever) like in any other browser (including ie6). What can I do?
IE7 (and 6, as I recall) both run a search for a web address if it's not found and it's not (1) a link from another page or (2) prefixed with http://.
I've never had it open my start page when it can't find a site. It just gives me "This page could not be displayed" like IE always has. -
bonk
Ich bin der Wurstfachverkäuferin !
If I type kjsdkdjfg.de into the adress bar of IE7 it opens www.google.de (wich happens to be my startpage) without any search string.
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IE redirects to your default search provider providing the ill url as the search criteria. I think the design process here was giving them something rather than nothing is a better design. I am quite sure your network isn't choking on the few kb unless your on dial up. Which in that case join the broadband generation:)
Of course you would get a 404 error if you gave a valid domain but an invalid URL for that domain.
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bonk wrote:If I type kjsdkdjfg.de into the adress bar of IE7 it opens www.google.de (wich happens to be my startpage) without any search string.
That's strange. Does your search bar work? -
bonk
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Yes, my ie7 searchbar bar works fine. This URL http://www.live.com/reallysucks redirects me to google.de (plain page without any search strings) My standard search provider is live.com.
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bonk wrote:Yes, my ie7 searchbar bar works fine. This URL http://www.live.com/reallysucks redirects me to google.de (plain page without any search strings) My standard search provider is live.com.
Are you running any browser add-ons? Try starting IE without add-ons (via right-click on the IE icon or the link in Accessories/System Tools).
This is definitely not normal behavior.
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