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Antony
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13 Feb, 2007 7:54 pm Netscape 9's (new) feature [sdp=82491]  
From The Netscape Blog: Netscape 9 Saves You Time

Chris Finke wrote:
Ever tried to visit google.cmo? How about irs.gvo? I'm sure that everyone has, at one time or another, made common mistakes like these when typing addresses in the location bar. What normally happens is that you notice your mistake after waiting for the page to load and it fails. That wait is a waste of your time - your browser spell-checks everything else you type, why not URLs?

Netscape 9 will be the first major browser to automatically correct common typos entered in the location bar. For example, if you accidentally type techcrunchcom, Netscape will fix it be to techcrunch.com. If you type slashdot.orgg, Netscape will change it to slashdot.org. mozilla,cmo gets changed to mozilla.com, and so on and so forth - no fuss, no muss. The browser will watch for nearly 30 different types of common mistakes and correct them for you (asking you to confirm, if you choose to enable confirmation), hopefully saving you some time and frustration in the process.


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James
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13 Feb, 2007 8:25 pm [sdp=82495]  
This is a very cool feature (and one that I desperately need given the number of times I mistype a URL). Smile

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Antony
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13 Feb, 2007 8:26 pm [sdp=82496]  
However, I believe this feature (or a similar one) was available in Netscape Communicator (in early days) when they had "What's Related".

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