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complete URLs in the address bar in Firefox and IE7

In both Firefox and IE7, there is a cool trick you can use if you are typing a URL in the address bar.

If you type the name of a site like so into the address bar: tipstrs and then hit Ctrl + Enter, it will add the protocol and a leading www. and a trailing .com so that the address now shows up as http://www.tipstrs.com

This can save a far amount of typing.
Rating: 100% positive, 1 Vote
Categories: browsers firefox IE7 shortcut
Added: on Apr 08, 2007 at 11:40 am
Added By: geekalot

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