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One feature I got hooked on back in the day was auto-URL completion by using Ctrl. So you type in "google" into the address bar, hit Ctrl+Enter, and the url would automagically become http://www.google.com/ [google.com] . Firefox took this a step further and have made Shift+Ctrl+Enter.org, and Shift+Enter.net. Naturally, I habitually did this in Opera when I tried it out, and it would not auto-complete, it would f
Is it THAT MUCH TROUBLE to type in.com? I mean, seriously. I have myself so trained to type in.net,.com, or.org after a URL, I'd save about 1/10 of a second by doing a Shift-Ctrl-Enter chord.
Translation: a queer effect of a browser I got used to doesn't work in Opera. Can you implement, bugtest, QA, and deploy a feature that me and three other people will use?
Actually, I understand people wanting that feature, and if Opera wouldn't be pigheaded, their current keyboard mapping ability *could* allow it if they didn't disallow certain random keys (like enter) from being mapped.
That all said, if you turn off another stupid default (the check for local lan addresses) which should be off by default... then finding www.foo.com from foo is instaneous.
And if you are going to sites frequently, I find (for instance) that setting a bookmark with a nickname is much faster.
sd [enter] is far faster than slashdot [shift]+[enter] or whatever the.org keybinding is.
But it also depends on how you work - I rarely type in url's, I'm clicking them, or copying them. I suppose if you type in a url multiple times a day, that shift-enter and alt enter or whatever is important. ctrl-enter is implemented just as enter (if you remove the search for local addresses) and hence available.
URL Autocomplete (Score:4, Insightful)
One feature I got hooked on back in the day was auto-URL completion by using Ctrl. So you type in "google" into the address bar, hit Ctrl+Enter, and the url would automagically become http://www.google.com/ [google.com] . Firefox took this a step further and have made Shift+Ctrl+Enter .org, and Shift+Enter .net. Naturally, I habitually did this in Opera when I tried it out, and it would not auto-complete, it would f
Re:URL Autocomplete (Score:2)
Translation: a queer effect of a browser I got used to doesn't work in Opera. Can you implement, bugtest, QA, and deploy a feature that me and three other people will use?
Re:URL Autocomplete (Score:2)
That all said, if you turn off another stupid default (the check for local lan addresses) which should be off by default
And if you are going to sites frequently, I find (for instance) that setting a bookmark with a nickname is much faster.
sd [enter] is far faster than slashdot [shift]+[enter] or whatever the
But it also depends on how you work - I rarely type in url's, I'm clicking them, or copying them. I suppose if you type in a url multiple times a day, that shift-enter and alt enter or whatever is important. ctrl-enter is implemented just as enter (if you remove the search for local addresses) and hence available.