How can I save literally seconds a year via Firefox keyboard shortcuts?

June 29, 2007 6:17 AM

How can I change Firefox so that Shift + Enter turns a URL of "example" into an address of www.example.co.uk rather than www.example.net?
posted by Hartster to technology (5 comments total)

1) type "about:config" in Firefox's URL bar.
2) Look for "browser.fixup.alternate.suffix"
3) Double-click that line, and change ".com" to ".co.uk"
4) Hit OK, and you're good to go!
posted by slater at 6:22 AM on June 29, 2007

err... maybe not. Hm.
posted by slater at 6:23 AM on June 29, 2007

I haven't tried it myself, but this extension looks like it ought to do the trick.
posted by cerebus19 at 6:45 AM on June 29, 2007

Slater's above mentioned technique will work if you use Ctrl + Enter instead of Shift. :)
posted by bhell13 at 6:46 AM on June 29, 2007

The extension mentioned be cerebus19 works perfectly. While slater's technique works, I still (greedily) need Ctrl + Enter to append .com like normal.
posted by Hartster at 1:12 AM on July 2, 2007