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Opera's Slashdot Easter Egg and Speed Dial

Posted by kdawson on from the easter-already? dept.

Thelomen writes "Opera Browser contains an Easter egg that is not widely known, recently reported over at OperaWatch.com: type /. in the address bar and you are taken directly to slashdot.org. Other recent news from Opera is their new Speed Dial feature, present in the most recent build from Desktop Team. At first glance Speed Dial just looks like 9 bookmarks you can open with CTRL+1 to CTRL+9. However, the pages on the Speed Dial are shown in thumbnail and are automatically pre-fetched in background — a useful thing if you have some heavy pages among your top bookmarks."

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  1. How about ctrl-l or F8 by Chuck+Chunder · · Score: 3, Informative

    And if you really want it as alt-D, then just go into Preferences->advanced->shortcuts and edit the keyboard setup.

    Just add an entry for "d alt" "Focus address field" in the application or browser window section.

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  2. Re:Uh, Firefox has this also... by DigitAl56K · · Score: 3, Informative

    Sorry for the double-post, but here's how to do it and some further examples:

    http://johnbokma.com/firefox/keymarks-explained.ht ml

    It's amazing what two seconds in Google turns up.

  3. Re:In firefox... by Slack3r78 · · Score: 5, Informative

    Here's a fun trick for you:

    Bookmark Slashdot in Firefox. Now right-click the bookmark and select 'Properties'.

    In the window that comes up, there's a field marked 'Keyword'. Enter /. into that field.

    Now any time you enter /. as a the URL in your address bar, you'll be taken straight to Slashdot. If you think that's cool, do some looking into the keyword search bookmarks Firefox allows you to create.

    (Accidentally posted this anonymous the first time. Reposting it so hopefully people see it.)

  4. How Slashdot was named ... by deek · · Score: 3, Informative


      That's very cool, and very nerdy, of Opera to add the "/." egg. I'm now tempted into downloading Opera and trying it out.

      I've often thought that the Slashdot name was an unfortunately mistyped unix dot slash (./). Fortunately, I've recently discovered that it was originally named to confuse people who tried to verbalise the URL (i.e http colon slash slash slash dot dot org). Thus now I am reassured of the proper geek foundations for this site.

      It's still a little unfortunate that Rob didn't choose "dotSlash" for this site's name. That would have appealed to the unix crowd, and would have been almost as confusing when reading out the URL (http colon slash slash dot slash dot org). Too late to change now, I suppose.