I was pleased to hear from Avery Morrow, the author of the ClumsyFingers extension that turns off the questionably helpful auto-address-completion feature in Firefox without making you fiddle with the browser's guts.
Yea, that extension doth now work with Firefox 2, and verily, it saveth me from attempting to visit such popular URLs as http://www.ebay my search string goes here.net/.
Three cheers for Avery!
I was going to just blog about the most excellent, if quirky, panorama-photo-stitching program Autostitch, which I have only just discovered because I am much lamer than these people, but the post ended up being so big that I ran it as a Dan's Data review instead.
If you've got any +5 Insightful things to say about panorama-making with Autostitch or anything else, or would just like to link to your awesome browser-paralysing 10,000 by 10,000 pixel QTVR image, please comment below!
If you type "foo" in Firefox's address bar and press Ctrl-Enter, you get http://www.foo.com/. Shift-Enter gives you http://www.foo.net/, and Ctrl-Shift-Enter gives you http://www.foo.org/.
I'm sure there's someone in the world who wants those shortcuts.
But I have never needed them. I have, instead, about a zillion times been peacefully typing a Quick Search and pressed Shift-Enter by mistake, usually because my search string ends with a quoted string and I'm still holding Shift down.
Like all normal humans, I use "g" as my Google Quick Search. So I might, for instance, type
g autoerotic "hydraulic shovels"
...then press Shift-Enter by mistake, and thereby try to go to http://www.g autoerotic "hydraulic shovels".net/.
Is there something in about:config to disable these shortcuts? I can't find it.
UPDATE: As per Avery Morrow's comment below, this problem is indeed now fixable, with the updated version of his extension. Yippee!