A friend of mine had an idea for a USB device to extend a ‘.com’ button to the keyboard. This meant all the people typing ‘.com’ into address bars could save a few seconds and buy another silly gadget.
The dream has been shattered. Maybe you know this already, but most browsers already come with a keyboard shortcut for ‘.com’. Not only that, but ‘.net’ and ‘.org’ are also covered, as well as the ‘www’ prefix.
Type a word into the address bar, then hold down the Ctrl button and press enter…voila, the http://www and .com are magically appended…
Now, type a word and hold down the Shift button and press enter … voila, the .net extension is appended..
If you hold down Ctrl+Shift and press enter, the .org extension gets added..
I’ll break the news to him in the morning.
Cool Domain Browser Shortcut – [TheDomainer'sGazette]
What I rely on is Firefox’s “I’m Feeling Lucky” Google search. Just type a single word into the address bar, and Firefox will take you to the top Google search result. I type in “lifehack” and up pops this site (www.lifehack.org). I type in “lifhacker” and Firefox takes me to lifehacker.com.
If you type more than one word, you’ll get Google search results for those words.
The idea for a .com keyboard button isn’t new. Apple’s iPhone does that, for example.
i think tis idea isn’t very useful because we get use to don’t do that.
Already knew this, and it’s been very useful. Although I sometimes am a bit too dependent on it now. Opera doesn’t like ctrl + enter though.
Yes, as Joe points out, browsers are so intuitive now that you can be taken to a website simply by typing the name. So these shortcuts, while good to know, don’t really serve any useful purpose these days.
Safari already does this. No buttons to hold down, just type domain and return.
Really helpful. Wish I knew this stuff years ago when I started into web design.
NEAT! Thanks for the tip.
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Yeah, I know it’s not a new feature or anything, but I hadn’t known it after years of web use.
I use the address bar for google searches so I wouldn’t like it to automatically add a .com to anything I type in there, Keith.
Do you know of a way to disable that function in Safari?
Would still be useful for non .com .net and .org addresses.
Eg .co.uk or .jp mostly used outside of the us.
[...] Quick .com Address Bar Shortcut – lifehack.org “Type a word into the address bar, then hold down the Ctrl button and press enter…voila, the http://www and .com are magically appended…” (tags: firefox tips) [...]
Sorry Craig, I don’t know how to disable it or know if there is a setting to change it to a .org or .net. I will post if I find out how.
Very old. Nothing new here, but others may find it useful.
[...] http://www.lifehack.org/articles/technology/quick-com-address-bar-shortcut.html Technorati tags: LifeHack, browser, keyboard shortcuts Posted: Friday, August 03, 2007 1:02 AM by michael.greene Filed under: Information Worker [...]
Yeah, I just found out about this from a coworker. Unlike you and your USB idea, I was thinking of like a firefox plugin or something. Guess none of our ideas were necessary.
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Such a function is easy to implement in addition to the browser
Old idea
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