On 3/27/07, Tim <ignored_mailbox@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Deepak Shrestha: >> 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. Tarjei Knapstad: > AFAIK it doesn't add anything, but submits the keyword(s) you type to > google and sends you directly to the "I'm feeling lucky" page. Nah, it does, indeed, work as previously described. That's easily proved while trying it off-line, or against domain names that Google knows nothing about. Try it and see for yourself. Clear out the address gadget, type in a domain name without www or com around it, and press ctrl and enter. If you try it on an address with www already there, it does nothing. If you try it with an address already ending with com, it adds www and com around it (you get www.example.com.com from example.com).
If you type in "new movies" for instance you'll be sent to http://movies.go.com/. Watch the status bar at the bottom, it connects to google.com first. Entering "new movies" as a query at google and clicking "I'm feeling lucky" brings you to the same site. Typing "fedora repositories" brings you to http://www.brandonhutchinson.com/Fedora_apt_and_yum_repositories.html which does not exactly correspond to just adding www. and .com It's possible that FF just adds .com etc. if you're offline, but that's probably a fallback. I believe I'm right - so there! ;) Regards, -- Tarjei
