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Strange Firefox 3 bug/easter egg

1 points by noaharc 17y ago

Select your URL bar. Hit the down arrow, so the suggestions list appears. Press CTRL+SHIFT+X.

psyklic 17y ago
This is neither a bug nor an easter egg. From docs: CTRL+SHIFT+X: Toggle typing direction of the current textbox.
- noaharc 17y ago
  Do you happen to know why the feature requires that the suggestions list be displayed? That fact made it seem more buggish to me, as it seems like an oddly specific trigger.
  - psyklic 17y ago
    On the latest (stable, 3.0.10) version of firefox (Vista), I can toggle it without the suggestions list displayed.
    - noaharc 17y ago
      That version on XP and Gentoo seems to require the suggestion list to be displayed. I guess the feature is a little ragged, anyway -- I imagine not too many people use it.
      - psyklic 17y ago
        After all this time, we've finally found a benefit to using Vista over XP and Linux! Congrats, HN! ;-)
psyklic 17y ago
Actually, it does seem there's a bug -- if the right-most character (left-justified) is '/', then it mistakenly prepends that character to the right-justified version.