Well I noticed our first post but you had lots of rep...... oh They were all from you!
I guess you were just thinking aloud and I wouldn't have wanted to interrupt you.
I turn my back for two minutes and .28 is out! No idea what the difference is!
Your point about browsing hosts is one that was raised elsewhere. It is happening to me quite a bit with 4.9.27, but I wonder if this just appears to be a problem as you often get a Zero completed search, instead of in the old days getting absolutely nothing except an error message which I dissabled.