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Internet Explorer Trick

Hey, I had all this planned - what to say and how to say it. But all that's irrelevant now as I have a useful tip to submit on IE thanks to my learned colleague Mat Stephens.

If you press ctrl-enter when typing a URL in the IE address bar, for example mysite, it automatically pre and post fixes it as follows: http://www.mysite.com. Sorry for all those thousands of .co.uk sites!

Ok, so you're all going to reply and say 'So?' and point me to a thousand places that explore the depths of undocumented ie! But hey, this is my first post!

 

Published Tuesday, February 08, 2005 5:28 AM by Matt Deacon

Comments

# re: Internet Explorer Trick @ Tuesday, February 08, 2005 5:52 AM

On a swedish Windows XP/IE it adds ".sv" instead of ".com" so it's not as americanized as you think. But, the problem is that ".sv" isn't the swedish suffix, it is ".se" =(

Per

# re: Internet Explorer Trick @ Tuesday, February 08, 2005 7:16 AM

In an Australian IE, it appends .com, so it *is* USA-ised.

CesarGon

# re: Internet Explorer Trick @ Tuesday, February 08, 2005 7:30 AM

Seems like Firefox has implemented this shortcut as well :).. doing ctrl+enter in firefox address bar will result in the browser also adding www. + .com to the word.

Tommi

# re: Internet Explorer Trick @ Tuesday, February 08, 2005 7:43 AM

And guess what? Firefox adds the www and .org/.net for Shift+Enter and Alt+Enter. Once again IE is outclassed.

Zeta Blocker

# re: Internet Explorer Trick @ Tuesday, February 08, 2005 9:34 AM

nyuk nyuk nyuk nyuk

Mari0000

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