[OT] Firefox easter egg???

Mauriat M mirandam at gmail.com
Fri Mar 23 15:07:40 UTC 2007


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.

-Mauriat




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