Firefox expands a single character into a full web address
by Volker Weber
Dirk Borchardt has found out that Firefox will expand a single character in the URL field to a full web address. Examples:
A = http://www.apple.com/
B = http://www.btselem.org/
C = http://www.c-span.org/
D = http://www.dlink.com/
Find the full list at his site.
Update: I have learned that this is a rather simple feature. Instead of adding www. and .com as other browsers do, Firefox issues an "I feel lucky" query on Google. Depending on your language settings you will get different results from Google.
Example: Try "vowe". Firefox sends you here. Safari sends you to the domain grabber who wanted to sell me vowe.com. He still has not made any money from it.
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Das sollte eigentlich bestimmt heißen "Firefox transforms arbitrary, non-URL strings in the address bar into Google 'I'm feeling lucky' searches, a quite handy feature introduced myriads of releases ago", nicht? :-)
Man kommt auf die Seite, die den ersten Treffer für eine Googlesuche nach dem jeweiligen Buchstaben hat, bzw. macht eine Suche mit dem "Auf gut Glück"-Button. Je nach dem welche Sprache die Firefoxversion hat wird Google.de oder .com etc verwendet, daher wird man in verschiedenen Sprachräumen unterschiedliche "Googlealphabete" erhalten.
Das Funktioniert auch allgemein. Wenn man einfach vowe eingibt, landet man hier ;)
Das kann heißen, was es will. Ich hab's nicht gewusst.
And interestingly,
M != http://www.microsoft.com/
... at least from here.
und vor 30 Monaten sah es so aus.
Das Feature nutze ich wenn ich meine Bookmarks nicht dabei habe bei URLs, die ich mir nicht merken kann. Meistens will ich jemanden ein Bild auf "ddoi" zeigen, das funktionierte bisher immer. :)
Now enter "failure" into Firefox's address bar and guess where you'll end up? ;-)
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