Category: Science/Tech | Posted by laraib 1541 days ago
Speaking of Firefox keyboard shortcuts, reader John writes in:
Noticed a peculiar thing on my girlfriend's MacBook the other day—I hit "g" then Enter from Firefox's location bar, and voila, Gmail launched. I have a keyword bookmark on MY computer configured to make Firefox act this way, but not on hers... maybe this is a built-in Firefox "Easter egg"? Not sure if the g shortcut would be considered an Easter egg, but I confirmed that it works on a pristine Firefox 2 profile on Windows, too. Strangely, the dict keyword, which used to take you to dictionary.com, is no longer built in. We're big fans of configuring our own keyword bookmarks. If you haven't already, here's how. Thanks, John! Update: Astute readers in the comments explain that the g shortcut is NOT a keyword bookmark, it is Google's I'm Feeling Lucky search in action, since Gmail is the first result for a search on the letter g. My apologies for the mistake.






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