One day I was talking with Aj about something online, and she proceeded to type out the full web address for the site she wanted to go to. I asked why she didn’t use Firefox’s built-in web address auto completion feature. Simple answer, she didn’t know about it. I tend to take my geekiness for granted and assume that everyone knows all of the same tricks that I know. So, without further ado, here is how you use this extremely helpful shortcut.
What the address completion does is append the .com/.net/.org to the address, saving you the keystrokes. The first step is to type the center part of the web address into the address line i.e. google, amazon, comcast, webjive. Then, depending on the dot-type you have a different keystroke.
- For .com hold CTRL and hit Enter (google.com, amazon.com)
- For .net hold Shift and hit Enter (comcast.net)
- For .org hold CTRL and Shift, and hit Enter (webjive.org)
The CTRL+Enter .com completion works with IE as well, but the .net and .org completion only works with Firefox.
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