surrael: it's bad for users. It's HELL for developers. HOW THE FUCK TO TURN IT OFF?! surrael: if my browser is requesting http://test.com/%7Egod then that's what i want to see in my address bar, not http://test.com/~god surrael: also, there are bugs with the implementation surrael: boo hoo hoo hoo hoo ;-( surrael: incidentally, the bugs is because once the url has been mangled to some form that is identical to some other form but not identical to the original form, there is in fact no way to know which of the forms was the origin ....... which is why this should never be forced on a user surrael: who may, it turns out, know what they are doing (TM) or want to learn (TM) surrael: it's a bug god fuck you! surrael: it's more bug|https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=444736] surrael: more than you can handle. surrael: if you did this to prevent phishing, you did this wrong (TM) surrael: TM (TM) surrael: oh .. maybe if you put some paint on it no-one will notice ;-P surrael: more url mangling than you can poke a stick at surrael: there is no 'right' way to do this, so you should do nothing, and anything you do offer to do should be optional