One letter web shortcuts
I recently noticed that I get to the BBC news web site my typing n followed by down arrow and then Enter in Firefox. Firefox has learnt that n is essentially a shortcut for news.bbc.co.uk for me.
I then wondered what each of the 26 letters of the alphabet mapped to in my browser. Here's the complete list:
Labels: pseudo-randomness
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2 Comments:
John,
Is there any intelligence in the selection of site for the character -- or is it just the first site in the history, which seems to be the Microsoft solution in IE?
Shawn, based upon my playing with it, it seems to be the first site in the history, even on Firefox. I went to BBC and then hit the b {ctrl} down arrow key to program it and that worked on another window of Firefox.
Best of wishes,
Billy
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