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If the only reason is shortness of typing, why don't you use a bookmark? Even s60 browsers have those.
by sh1mmer 17y ago
If the only reason is shortness of typing, why don't you use a bookmark? Even s60 browsers have those.
- helveticaman 17y agoSometimes you have to access something from cybercafes. I bought qwertqwert.com so I could access "Dvorak anywhere" quickly with a qwerty keyboard.
- sh1mmer 17y agoExcept that you don't seem to be doing anything with it.
- jordyhoyt 17y agoprotip: www
- sh1mmer 17y agoSo adding www makes his example completely moot. If shortness were an issue then why only use www.qwertqwert.com ?
- sokoloff 17y agoqwertqwert Ctrl-Enter is pretty short and works in most Windows browsers (such as you're likely to find in an internet cafe) (ctrl-enter adds a leading http://www http://www. and a trailing .com if either is missing)
- helveticaman 17y agogood point. thanks for the hint.
- jordyhoyt 17y agoI never claimed that his example was representative of a useful, short domain name, I simply pointed out that you came to a conclusion that was wrong after doing far too little research. If you have a problem with the length of his domain name, I'd suggest commenting to him, not me. The downmods are ridiculous, did I honestly distract from the conversation or did everyone disagree that putting www in front fixes it? This place is dying.
- lucumo 17y agoDomains that require www need to die.
- hrishi 17y agogoogle 'hn'.
- rms 17y agoWith autocomplete, typing can be faster than a bookmark when all you have to do is type "h" then press down and ok.
- simonsarris 17y agoAmusingly, all I do is type "n" and then press enter, and Google Chrome takes me here using the normal address.
- apotheon 17y agoI typically get as far as "new", but then, I routinely have more than a hundred tabs open in Firefox. If Chrom(e|ium) worked on FreeBSD, I'd probably be using that instead.
- Pistos2 17y agoI like leaving things open, but I'm really curious how having over 30 tabs is an improved user experience. The most common places I visit are either always etched in the address bar history, and so are reachable in a few keystrokes, or have outright aliases, so I can type a keyword and it transforms into a URL. Everything else is just a handful of keystrokes away, via Selfmarks (my bookmarks-on-the-internet service). How can you navigate among your tabs with any semblance of ease or speed?
- jey 17y agoYeah, I keep hearing of people (esp. power users) using web browsers with hundreds of tabs open, and I don't understand why they need so many, nor how it remains manageable/useful/navigable. When I end up with > 25 tabs, it usually just means I need to run a garbage collection cycle. Whatever the reason is, it's probably some use case(s) that could be better handled by the browser or an extension. Are they using all the tabs as a queue of stuff to read? That's a problem I run into, and I deal with it by keeping a vim buffer open with a list of URLs.