Shortcuts are people too

While I was reading over the comments at Lifehacker’s post on URL Fixer, I came across this critique: [...] I’ve run into one little problem with this sucker. I avoid bookmarks like the plague and, instead, create keywords to jump to sites by typing in one word or a short phrase. Anyway, one of my [...]

While I was reading over the comments at Lifehacker’s post on URL Fixer, I came across this critique:

[...] I’ve run into one little problem with this sucker. I avoid bookmarks like the plague and, instead, create keywords to jump to sites by typing in one word or a short phrase. Anyway, one of my keywords was the term “intranet” which linked to my office’s internal database pages. This extension would always turn that into intra.net which would send me out into the web for a site that I didn’t actually want to visit. [...]

This situation hadn’t occurred to me before, but now that I’m aware of it, I’ve updated URL Fixer to check first if the text in the URL bar is a shortcut URL, and if so, to leave it alone. Thanks, dashifen!