Poll: Amazing feature I bet no one ever knew about in IE 5.5!!

[javathehut]

go to your adress area and type a website name like or yahoo or excite but dont add the .com or http:// just type the site. Then instead of pressing enter press Ctrl+enter. There you have it, IE automatically adds http://www. and .com to it. Amazing huh?

 

[Rand]

Amazingly common knowledge

 

[Delusion2001]

sigh

i bet you had a party when you found that out, eh?

 

[javathehut]

Oh man, I was so exuberant when I discovered it! I ran around Santa Monica naked for an hour.

 

[chuckieland]

i seriously don't know about this
does that work in other IE too

 

[khaosspawn]

knew abuit it for a while. look up IE help it's got more keyboard shortcuts.

 

[Shudder]

Something opera has had as a standard without pressing any keys for about 3 years

 

[DefRef]

Works for most sites in Netscape 4.76. No biggie.

 

[BFG10K]

That's a really old feature. IE 5.0 supports it.

 

[Time2Kill]

Another cool feature is you can start typing in one of your book marks...then it will finish it, hit enter and you go to your bookmarked site

 

[gtd2000]

That's new to me too - good post



<< Oh man, I was so exuberant when I discovered it! I ran around Santa Monica naked for an hour >>


hehe........

 

[gtd2000]

Actually I normally just type yahoo.com etc but that will save me 4 key strokes

 

[madthumbs]

Damn! You guys discovered my secret 133+ trick!

 

[Justin]

You don't even have to push ctrl+enter, just type in 'yahoo'. It tries the TLD's in the most logical order.. .com, .net, .org, .edu, etc.. You can also do this w/ the DNS &quot;Domain Suffix Search Order&quot; in your TCP/IP properties.

 

[Turkey]

And if you get the IE 5 power tools, you can search any of your favorite search engines directly from the toolbar:

type in:
g l33t t00184r s34rch1n9
and it automatically goes to the google results page for &quot;l33t t00184r s34rch1n9&quot;

y l33t t00184r s34rch1n9
goes to the yahoo results page for the same, etc.

 

[marcio]

The ctrl+enter thing is such an old feature...

But Turkey's tip is new to me. Going to try it out. Thanks.

 

[BChild]

hehe nice tip, another keyboard shortcut that'll amaze people