[OT] Firefox easter egg???

[Jonathan Berry]

On 3/23/07, Mauriat M <mirandam at gmail.com> wrote:
> On 3/23/07, Deepak Shrestha <d88pak at gmail.com> wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > The small feature I found out in firefox today went unnoticed to me
> > for years. I found out by accident that typing the popular links
> > without www and com part (for example google) and pressing ctrl+enter
> > in firefox adds the missin www & com part in the url and brings to the
> > www.google.com. I was happy to find out this little but very useful
> > feature in firefox (thanks firefox guys. I found this very helpful
> > feature for the people who often make typo mistakes or new to computer
> > and  web). I tried it with common ".com" sites and works well but not
> > for other domains like ".net" or ".org". Is there a way to configure
> > firefox to look for other domains as well??? if Yes how? and is there
> > any other small featuers I might be missing like this one?
>
> I think (someone correct me if I'm wrong) this was requested feature
> that the Mozilla developers implemented to work like an IE feature. I
> beleive Internet Explorer had it a very long time ago. So not quite an
> "easter egg", but nice feature all the same.

Yes, IE has had this behavior.  It is a feature that attracted me to
Firefox versus the old Mozilla browser when Firefox came out.  I use
Ctrl+Enter all the time.  The shortcuts seem to be:
Ctrl+Enter => www com
Shift+Enter => www net
Ctrl+Shift+Enter => www org

I did not know that last one, thanks to Patrick who posted it
elsewhere in this thread.  Alt+Enter does not seem to do anything.

Other useful ones I use:
Ctrl+L => Go to the address bar (select the text if any)
Ctrl+T => Open a new tab
Ctrl+N => Open a new window
Ctrl+Shift+T => Open the last closed tab (in Firefox 2.0)

Very handy.

Jonathan