If you haven’t upgrade to Firefox 3 yet, please do so. The new version is far more responsive and stable that its predecessors.
Another reason for loving Firefox 3 is the way it auto-completes web URLs – very intelligent and something you’ll miss in IE. Update: Firefox 2 users share that this works in the previous version as well.
To get started, press Alt+D or Ctrl+L to move the cursor to your Firefox browser address bar and then try some of these combinations:
To open Google Maps website, type "google/maps" in the Firefox address bar (no quotes) and press Ctrl+Enter.
Firefox will automatically surround the word(s) that are before the first slash with www. and .com. IE 7 and previous version of Firefox can’t do this.
And this URL auto-complete works even if you have several subdirectories in the URL. For instance, your Google Apps sign-in page will open correctly if you type "google/a/mysite.com" and press Ctrl+Enter.
If you want to open a .org site, you need to use Ctrl+Shift+Enter. Typing yahoo/forums followed by Ctrl+Shift+Enter would therefore open our support website at www.yahoo.org/forums.
And for .net websites, the shortcut key is Shift+Enter. So you can view the most popular PowerPoint presentations on Slideshare by typing slideshare/popular followed by Shift+Enter.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-ZmFs0ws9CU&feature=player_embedded
For Geeks: If you like Firefox to add a different suffix other than .com, open your Firefox settings page at about:config and change the value of key browser.fixup.alternate.suffix to something else like .org, .net, etc.
Download the latest version of Firefox here.
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