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Former Employee

Mar 04, 2020

Dev channel update to 82.0.439.1 is live

Hello Insiders, today we’re releasing build 82.0.439.1 to the Dev Channel. We also posted a new blog post last week detailing our work to protect you from potentially unwanted applications. Check i...

HotCakeX

MVP

Mar 04, 2020

"Added a service to suggest an address to try when a navigation to a website fails due to a typo in the address. "

This is great!

rjpaulsen

Brass Contributor

Mar 05, 2020

What would be even better is checking when you enter something that is a misspelling of a "real" website.

Example: When entering "ebaay.com" the user would be prompted with "Before we navigate there, did you mean ebay.com?"

Example: When entering "whitehouse.com" the user would be prompted with "Before we navigate there, did you mean whitehouse.gov?"

HotCakeX
MVP
Mar 05, 2020
rjpaulsen
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rjpaulsen wrote:
What would be even better is checking when you enter something that is a misspelling of a "real" website.

Example: When entering "ebaay.com" the user would be prompted with "Before we navigate there, did you mean ebay.com?"

Example: When entering "whitehouse.com" the user would be prompted with "Before we navigate there, did you mean whitehouse.gov?"

this sounds good, would prevent lots of phishing attacks 🙂