I recognize that punchline structure!
If you play a Windows install disc backwards it plays accursed chants to the dark lord. But that's nothing. If you play it forwards, it installs Widows!
It's amazing how different people are. Some will live their entire lives with a wrong suggestion or a "mystery apple charge every month" and never care to investigate or at least google it.
Well I have and I always disable browsing history. Too much clutter otherwise. Whatever I want to revisit gets a bookmark. The rest must be purged or I'm gonna go insane
I use "private" browsing for like 95% of my internet browsing, and "normal" browsing for important stuff. That way the browser will remember "important" stuff including download sources etc, and for the rest I can sleep easy knowing that my embarassing typos at least aren't remembered by my browser.
People care about privacy until it’s inconvenient. I can’t think of any websites I would trust to keep a cookie on my PC indefinitely, so I wipe everything when I shut down my PC once a day.
My personal method is streamlining access to my password manager so logging in is easier.
The 8 seconds may include looking up how to fix it, since it's apparently unknown to the poster. But you don't get any imaginary internet dopamine points for that
My brother in Chrome, I’ve been trying to do this for years now. There’s an active bug somewhere (on Bugzilla?) for this behavior. It works in most cases even for me.
But fucking etrecheck is stuck with me till the end of time.
...Word for the wise, you can delete the suggestion by clicking the X button next to it. It won't remind you or automatically pick the wrong one next time.
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Could be worse. It could be suggesting Facebook.
I recognize that punchline structure!
If you play a Windows install disc backwards it plays accursed chants to the dark lord. But that's nothing. If you play it forwards, it installs Widows!
to be fair t is so far away from k that's not a simple typo and you deserve to be mocked
Your comment got me curious, and it turns out that's true even for alternative layouts Dvorak & Colemak.
To see inside of the mind of someone who goes to facebook daily for 15 years on a dvorak keyboard.
Your comment got me curious, and it turns out that's true even for layouts like Workman & Halmak
If it gets suggested, you can select it with arrow keys and press shift+del, problem solved.
It's amazing how different people are. Some will live their entire lives with a wrong suggestion or a "mystery apple charge every month" and never care to investigate or at least google it.
Relevant part of a pretty good song that sums this up.
https://youtu.be/EbdeVhPAbms?t=78
Can also highlight the suggestion and hit the “X”, at least in some browsers.
You guys aren’t deleting history when the browser closes?
¯\_(ツ)_/¯
no that's awful
I do a fresh install of my OS every time I turn my computer off. Better safe than not safe.
pfff… I install a different OS every time i boot my computer. I'm on Hanna Montana atm.
Why would I?
Nothing to gain but a lot of annoyance
You clearly don’t have auDHD…
Well I have and I always disable browsing history. Too much clutter otherwise. Whatever I want to revisit gets a bookmark. The rest must be purged or I'm gonna go insane
I used to, then i got too frustrated when i accidentally closed the browser and now i don't delete it
I use "private" browsing for like 95% of my internet browsing, and "normal" browsing for important stuff. That way the browser will remember "important" stuff including download sources etc, and for the rest I can sleep easy knowing that my embarassing typos at least aren't remembered by my browser.
People care about privacy until it’s inconvenient. I can’t think of any websites I would trust to keep a cookie on my PC indefinitely, so I wipe everything when I shut down my PC once a day.
My personal method is streamlining access to my password manager so logging in is easier.
Deleting cookies is vastly deferent than deleting the browser history.
About every other month or so. That's just for the locked down home pc. Phone is no history.
You can fix it. It take 8 seconds
8 seconds to hit shift+delete? That’s pretty slow.
The 8 seconds may include looking up how to fix it, since it's apparently unknown to the poster. But you don't get any imaginary internet dopamine points for that
Chrome insists that I want to visit 92.168.I.I
I insist I don't want to use Chrome, but search suggestions for local IP ranges is really annoying.
Firefox won't load local IPs and I have no idea why 🙁
Once upon a time you could delete them directly in the adress bar in firefox. Search entries and url alike
Highlight suggestion with arrow keys, shift + del, success?
This is the way
Just delete it
Dammit, I thought faceboot.com would have a funny typosquatter site on it, but it just redirects to Facebook...
same
The one time I type
exit()in powershell instead ofexit.That's on you for using Microslop products
Oh, I don't. That was on my work laptop.
Thank you for your useful contribution to the conversation. /s, in case that was necessary.
I wanted to go to E*Trade. Went to etrecheck.com instead.
Fucking Firefox. Hasn’t let go of it since almost a decade now.
You can just delete it. When you search choose delete, I think it’s on the right side.
Yeah, you would think that would work.
I've been using Firefox since it was Netscape Navigator 1.2
How is this something you just live with without fixing it?
You’re asking me or asking a rhetorical question? Me, I just go to us.etrade.com instead. It’s stupid and irritating. But it is what it is.
It does? I did it a few weeks ago.
My brother in Chrome, I’ve been trying to do this for years now. There’s an active bug somewhere (on Bugzilla?) for this behavior. It works in most cases even for me.
But fucking etrecheck is stuck with me till the end of time.
And that's why I turn off the option for the location bar to suggest websites to me.
Yes, I'm SURE you meant to go to lenonparty.org
Imagine if there was a real site there.
I have the same with archllinux.org (two ls instead of one). :(
Highlight it in the dropdown (using the arrow keys), then Shift+Del
Good guy navigation bar. Sounds like a win
When deleting history is hard.
Don't even need to do that, use arrow keys, select the incorrect entry, and press shift+delete
That's one of the reasons i completely disable the History in my Webbrowsers
This post gave me the giggles.
...Word for the wise, you can delete the suggestion by clicking the X button next to it. It won't remind you or automatically pick the wrong one next time.
I have visited maps-dot-com so many times, because of one mistake.