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Coolest feature ever! Yet another reason why I love Firefox

  • Artigo

If you don't know about Ctrl-Enter in the address bar or your web browser I encourage you to try it out. If you type "cnn" and then hit ctrl-enter it will prepend the "www." and append ".com" so you have "www.cnn.com" which is great!

Just today I got a Starbucks gift card and I wanted to see the balance on the card and to do so I would need to go to "www.starbucks.com/card" as it was printed on the back of the card. I had already opened Firefox and I typed starbucks in the address bar and at this point I would go through the effort to hit home type www., hit end type .com and then "/card" but instead I just typed "starbucks/card" and I hit Ctrl-Enter and Firefox filled in the rest for me so I went to www.starbucks.com/card. It was just too awesome.

I tried it again, for example the OneNote site is: www.microsoft.com/office/onenote/ so I just typed "microsoft/office/onenote" and Ctrl-Enter and it went to the right site! Sadly this doesn't work in IE 7 : ( However I was just very pleased to see this feature working and just how I would try it too!

Comments

  • Anonymous
    January 10, 2007
    That works in Opera Browser too. www.opera.com ;)

  • Anonymous
    January 10, 2007
    Very cool..thanks for passing on.

  • Anonymous
    January 10, 2007
    Along the same lines, Shift+Enter will add .net Ctrl+Shift+Enter will add .org

  • Anonymous
    January 10, 2007
    is it configurable ? otherwise in europe quite useless :-(

  • Anonymous
    January 10, 2007
    The slash key ( /  )is great too. Works like in vi...instant search in the web page. I use it all the time.

  • Anonymous
    January 11, 2007
    oddly, this works in just about every browser Firefox, Safari, for every platform (including IE for Mac) except IE for windows.

  • Anonymous
    January 12, 2007
    Yeah, well it DOES work in IE7, just not with extra stuff on the end.  Go ahead, try "microsoft"+Ctrl+Enter.

  • Anonymous
    January 13, 2007
    Dan, You should try something along the same lines.  Go to any search engine, say, images.google.com.  Right click inside their search engine (where you enter the text).  Click "add keywords for this search".  Then, give it a name, such as google images.  then, give it a keyword, such as i.  Put it in a bookmark folder (I use the "searches" folder).  For me, I have a medicine search engine (keyword=m) and such, things that would be difficult to get to any other way. Now, in your address bar, type i escapa and hit enter.  Voila!   This works for ANY search engine.  It is simply amazing...

  • Anonymous
    January 14, 2007
    Both Netscape and IE offered this back in Windows 98 days. You know, when the internet was cool and Microsoft thought ActiveDesktop was going to catch on

  • Anonymous
    February 06, 2007
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  • Anonymous
    June 28, 2007
    the only useful part about this feature is the .com part. You usually dont ever have to use www. before a webpage. But thanks for mentioning this, i never knew about Cntrl + Enter

  • Anonymous
    October 29, 2007
    I only want to register my gift card to protect balance