so in my programming class today I noticed that if you type in a ? or a bunch of other characters such as ' " ( ) + = in the url followed by a word, like woot or google, it will go to that site, such as ?woot goes to woot.com,otherwise if it cant find it it will do a google search for the word. Don't know if this has been discussed, but I felt kinda cool when i discovered it today
It does that anyway, without any other characters. Typing "woot" goes to woot.com, typing "google" goes to google.com
I usually just type in woot and hit ctrl-enter (which adds .com) or shift-enter (which adds .net) :p
No, there's a delay when doing that as opposed to "?woot" because Firefox queries Google for the first result and goes to that.CrazeD wrote:
It does that anyway, without any other characters. Typing "woot" goes to woot.com, typing "google" goes to google.com
I have keyworded bookmarks for all my really common sites, or I use ctrl+enter. There are variations to this as well; shift+enter uses .net. You can configure others but mine isn't set up for that.
oh really didn't know that, just thought it was pretty cool sitting in class, and yeah if you just type in woot it takes much longer than a ? wootDefiance wrote:
No, there's a delay when doing that as opposed to "?woot" because Firefox queries Google for the first result and goes to that.CrazeD wrote:
It does that anyway, without any other characters. Typing "woot" goes to woot.com, typing "google" goes to google.com
I have keyworded bookmarks for all my really common sites, or I use ctrl+enter. There are variations to this as well; shift+enter uses .net. You can configure others but mine isn't set up for that.
ever since I got fire fox I have very rarely had to but the .com or .ca or .org at the end. I don't think i have put www. on a link ever