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Do you have problems, concerns or recommendations about the technical side of the Phoenix? Air them here. Compliments also welcome.
Can't you just erase it from the History, though?
t blank you mean erase the history? Not at these particular public computers. And that would take some time.
And only urls typed into the address bar pop up, not hotlinks. If you hadn't figured that out by the middle of your post-- I couldn't tell.
Huh. We must be using different versions of IE, or I'm confused, because
1) it's always seemed to have recorded everywhere I went, whether it was linked to or typed in
and
2) I've been able to edit history on public computers, with a little flickering around in Preferences at most, as long as it was IE.
1) it's always seemed to have recorded everywhere I went, whether it was linked to or typed in
Are you sure? Does the address bar history have all the pages you've read at buffistas.org, for instance?
No, but they will often record the main site at public terminals. Especially in Explorer -- the whole remember history thing.
Having it come up in history is not something I worry about. It's having the next law student-- some secret Buffy fan-- next to use the computer start to type in "bust" or something, buffistas is suggested, they click through and become entranced. Particularly considering I post under a name I am the only female law student to carry.
I posted this the last time this came up, but there's a significant percentage of non-expert users who use their search tool, be it Google or Yahoo or whatever their ISP provides as their default homepage, as their address bar. I think it may have something to do with the search box being on the page itself, rather than in the toolbar, and also with the fact that search typically is more forgiving of a typo or slightly wrongly phrased request than the address bar is.
Does everyone else see my tagline as way lower than it should be? WTF?
It looks normal to me, Michele. Did you try resizing the window?
Are you sure? Does the address bar history have all the pages you've read at buffistas.org, for instance?
Yup. Until the last-300-sites cutoff. And, to check, I just clicked on your profile, closed the window, and typed shaw into the address bar, and it suggested Shawn's profile, with the attached URL, to me.
And only urls typed into the address bar pop up, not hotlinks. If you hadn't figured that out by the middle of your post-- I couldn't tell.
I just tried this out. I typed "www.lat" into my address bar. A few sites were suggested, but not www.latimes.com. Then I went to google, did a search for "www.latimes.com", and clicked on the link to the LA Times. Then I closed that window, opened a new one, and typed "www.lat" into the address bar. "www.latimes.com" was suggested. However, when I click the little arrow to the right of the address bar, www.latimes.com is not in the list that pops down.