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I know what you are thinking. You want to open http://www.howtogeek.com, but it’s such a hassle to type in the http:// and the www and the .com. Here’s your shortcut method.

On modern browsers, such as IE7 and Firefox, hitting Ctrl + Enter will automatically fill in the www. and the .com part of the URL. Let’s see an example:


Just type in howtogeek into the address bar in your browser:


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Now hit Ctrl + Enter together:


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You saved yourself 15 keystrokes!
More Keystroke combinations:

  • Ctrl + Enter – Auto-complete *.com address
  • Shift + Enter – Auto-complete *.net address
  • Ctrl + Shift + Enter – Auto-complete *.org address
If you add Alt to any of those key combinations, it will auto-complete and open the new address in a new tab as well. Alt+Ctrl+Enter will auto-complete a *.com address in a new tab, for instance.


Source:howtogeek.com
 
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All I do is type the site name and voila you have the site you want to go to :) But nice tut, moved to correct section. Ty.
 
Here's one I didn't know about until a few months ago for firefox:

If you bookmarks a site you can assign key words to the book mark. When you type the keywords into the url it will go to that bookmarked site:

Ie...if I bookmarked wjunction.com I could just type in wj and it would go to wjunction.com

bookmarks -> organize -> find bookmarked site -> click more -> enter keyword.
 
  • Ctrl + Enter – Auto-complete *.com address
  • Shift + Enter – Auto-complete *.net address
  • Ctrl + Shift + Enter – Auto-complete *.org address
 
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