Opera's Slashdot Easter Egg and Speed Dial

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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[ringbarer]

New Easter Egg: More than five users!

In other news...

[Ethercircuit]

Microsoft just announced these features will be available in IE 7.1 slated for release in Q3 2008.

Re:In other news...

[Barryke]

Sorry for commentabuse;

I found this listed under 'Known Issues'
- "Forgetting to put your partner's blog in SD1 can have dramatic consequences"

lol :) and it has a simpson smiley next to it. 3

Re:In other news...

[Anonymous Coward]

I already had my Firefox bookmark set to do this.

Re:In other news...

[KinkyClown]

... it will also include an Easter egg: typing "M$" will take you directly to www.microsoft.com.

Or

[malkir]

You could just hit your CTRL+1 preset :P

Re:Or

[Anonymous Coward]

The porn one? Oh wait, that's just me...

Re:Or

[Mr2cents]

Feature request: a "miserable failure" easter egg, now that the google bomb is no longer working.

Re:OR

[GoulDuck]

Not tested, but for Windows, the commandline way:
Start -> Run -> runas /user:%computername%\administrator "echo \"66.35.250.150 \.\" >> %windir%\system32\drivers\etc\hosts"

:-)

Re:Or

[ATMD]

Ha, now "Failure" and "Miserable Failure" point to a BBC article documenting the phenomenon :)

Hooray for Opera!

[dreddnott]

As a classically-trained singer, I heartily endorse this software in the hopes that it will raise cultural awareness of the musical art form.

Re:Hooray for Opera!

[Bob Cat - NYMPHS]

Is that you, Fat Lady?

Re:Hooray for Opera!

[Anonymous Coward]

Bob! It's not what you think!

Re:Hooray for Opera!

[Gadget_Guy]

As a classically-trained singer, I heartily endorse this software in the hopes that it will raise cultural awareness of the musical art form.

Don't get your hopes up. The movie Firefox is ranked at #14,185 for DVD sales on Amazon.com. Having a browser of the same name didn't help it one bit!

Well

[kitsunewarlock]

I prefer RSS feeds thank you.

Still won't use opera.

[Anonymous Coward]

Still no ALT+D function to place focus on address bar after 9.1 versions.

Re:Still won't use opera.

[onedotzero]

Well, you could just CTRL+L or change your keyboard shortcuts.

Re:Still won't use opera.

[Anonymous Coward]

Try pressing F8 (focus to address bar) and F9 to return the focus to the page.

Re:Still won't use opera.

[Pc_Madness]

Yeah, but they're not very practical, since you have to move your left hand away from the 'home' keys and your right is almost certainly on the mouse. Its my number one annoyance on the Mac as well for various browsers.. Alt + L, sure, D may not make sense, but its easier. :p

Re:Still won't use opera.

[cbreaker]

I won't use it because I see no point. I used to really like Mozilla - I was a hold out for a long time, and then I reluctantly moved to FireFox (which turned out to be just fine.) I have Firefox on all workstations I use, it works great, and I don't see any reason to use Opera. Not that I'm a developer but I also like that Firefox is open source, in case had to base my decision on that alone.

I don't see any reason to use opera, nor not use it. I feel very blah about it.

Re:Still won't use opera.

[Tim_UWA]

Why would you need to focus the address bar to type unless your right hand was on the keyboard?

Re:Still won't use opera.

[VGPowerlord]

I don't use Mozilla/Firefox because of weird HTML bugs in valid HTML 4.x Strict pages.

There's something wrong when Firefox renders something incorrectly that IE gets right. Particularly for a 9 year old standard (published 18 December 1997).

Re:Still won't use opera.

[TheVelvetFlamebait]

I don't use Opera much, but I still have it installed alongside Firefox. The reason is that Firefox tends to render pages a little differently to IE (making them seem more...compressed vertically). I find that Opera does a better job of imitating the IE renderer.

Re:Still won't use opera.

[cheater512]

I never knew the and tags existed. Let me guess: They arent used at all? :P

Re:Still won't use opera.

[cbreaker]

Yea, that's a reason I suppose. When I first switched to Mozilla several years back it was a lot more difficult. I got tired of cleaning spyware out of my machine that was downloaded secretly via IE bugs.. Once I switched the members of my immediate family over to Firefox those problems stopped dead. I didn't switch because I wanted to use open source. Anyways, many pages refused to load with "IE ONLY." Lots of pages loaded very poorly, with wrong positioning and incorrect fonts. Usually it was usable, but sometimes I'd have to load up IE.

Even as recent as three years ago, a good number of web pages had problems if you weren't using IE. Now, the number is very small and shrinking every day. These days it's mostly internal corporate apps that are broken. I bitch at our developers for doing IE only bullshit but they don't care..

I really can't remember the last time I HAD to load IE because a page rendered incorrectly. I'm sure they're still out there, but I never visit any. I do use IEtab on FireFox for when I open up Outlook Web Access.

So, since web site development standards are moving more and more toward full CSS usage and other goodies, and moving quickly away from ActiveX, it's such a small problem that I still don't think I'd bother with Opera and keeping another piece of software updated.

Re:Still won't use opera.

[cbreaker]

You certainly have the right to use something without odd HTML bugs that have never once affected my web browsing experience, but it seems too a little too elitist to me.

I'm sure they'll fix it eventually, but they do have a lot of work to do, and this particular problem must only affect a small number of pages, or doesn't really affect the usability of any web sites.

I know I've never used those tags on any sites I've put together. Regardless I'm not a paid web developer, but I do favors.

Anyways, it's not enough to get me to switch to a closed source program when the open source one works so well.

Re:Still won't use opera.

[Short Circuit]

That's strange, because I've been using Firefox since back when it was called Phoenix, and the only issue I ran into was filing my taxes online through H&R Block.

Re:Still won't use opera.

[Anonymous Coward]

Have no fear, it's Bug #915. (https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=915 - you'll have to copy-paste since Bugzilla blocks Slashdot referers.)

It's been open since September 1998, almost as long as the spec has been published. It's marked as blocking the release of Mozilla 1.3, so once that gets released, ... oh.

Well, now it's marked blocking Mozilla 1.9, so once that gets released, ... oh.

Well... at least it's in there. And has been for almost 10 years.

Re:Still won't use opera.

[Anonymous Coward]

It's one of the oldest bugs in Bugzilla:

https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=915

(It's marked helpwanted, so it looks like it'll remain for even longer)

More on IE support for columns:

http://ln.hixie.ch/?count=1&start=1070385285

Re:Still won't use opera.

[GoulDuck]

While I press Alt-D, I move my mouse hand to the keyboard, unless I'm already there (I try to navigate using the keyboard instead of the mouse).

Re:Still won't use opera.

[suv4x4]

There's something wrong when Firefox renders something incorrectly that IE gets right. Particularly for a 9 year old standard

That's not so annoying as Firefox being the only browser (among IE/opera/safari/konqueror) to get the border-collapse model for tables wrong. Half of the collapsed border (yes.. the half of it), will flow outside the container, while the other half displays inside the container.

Nop, that's not the correct box model at all, *for collapsed border* on tables.

Re:Still won't use opera.

[VGPowerlord]

More on IE support for columns:

http://ln.hixie.ch/?count=1&start=1070385285

Yes, it's illegal to do that in CSS. However, the definition for the COL element lists %cellhalign; in its attribute list. The description of the COL element is "The COL element allows authors to group together attribute specifications for table columns. The COL does not group columns together structurally -- that is the role of the COLGROUP element. COL elements are empty and serve only as a support for attributes. They may appear inside or outside an explicit column group (i.e., COLGROUP element)."

In other words, while it's illegal to do text alignment using COL and CSS, it's perfectly legal in HTML 4 to do <col align="center">.

Re:Still won't use opera.

[VGPowerlord]

Don't get me wrong, I still have Firefox around, I just choose not to use it as my main browsing experience.

The other reason is that they won't implement things just because other browsers do it that way. Did you know that Firefox is the only major browser that does <map> tags differently under text/html than text/xhtml+xml for the same page?

And that the Mozilla devs won't even consider changing this behavior?

Re:Still won't use opera.

[jp10558]

Yea, same thing happened to me in 2001, but then Mozilla didn't even exist as an RC. I got tired of waiting and gave Opera 5.12 a try, and never looked back. Never really had a reason to use anything else very often.

Re:Still won't use opera.

[cbreaker]

Ohh my, all the way back then? Wow.

If you'd read my post, you'd see I was referring to Mozilla, before Firefox. Lots of pages back then, around the time Mozilla became available, were terrible if you didn't use IE. A lot of it was because of ActiveX, but a lot was rendering quirks of IE.

Like I said, I don't have to use IE very much. I use it for things like OWA, but I don't have to. Corporate apps tend to be IE only, unfortunately.

Don't be so defensive. Sheesh, it's just a browser.

Re:Still won't use opera.

[Short Circuit]

I used Mozilla prior to Phoenix, even Netscape 6 on Windows, back before I switched to Linux. Rendering bugs never seemed to get in my way.

Don't be so sarcastic...it's just a comment.

easter egg?

[omeomi]

Cool, yes. But as easer eggs go, kinda lame...where's the fighting monster video or hidden game?

Re:easter egg?

[l0cust]

I agree. Its kinda cool and all but doesn't have the charm of real easter eggs. Now the great easter eggs would have been soemthing like:

1. Type 'nerds' and it opens slashdot, digg, and theregister in tabs.
2. Type 'mafia' and it opens RIAA and MPAA sites in tabs.
3. Type 'sux' and it opens microsoft website.
4. Type 'spam' and it opens hotmail.
5. Type 'pr0n' and it turns off the pop-up bocker, opens 20 pr0n sites and an online catalog of kleenex in tabs .
6. Type 'loser' and it opens ascii porn sites.
7. Type 'kawaii' and it opens aninewnewsnetwork and anime sections of isohunt,piratebay and torrentleech in tabs.
7. Type 'needalife' and it opens startrek and trekkipr0n sites.

Re:easter egg?

[GFree]

trekkipr0n sites

WHAT?!? These exist and no-one ever told me?

I've wasted my life!

Re:easter egg?

[Joebert]

where's the fighting monster video or hidden game

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

You must be new here.

Re:easter egg?

[Anonymous Coward]

suicidegirls.com

Re:easter egg?

[IceFox]

In Qt's designer pull up the "About Qt Designer" dialog and draw a circle around the logo and then click the button that appears. You find a little game where you get to see everyone who worked on Qt.

In firefox...

[Glowing Fish]

/. takes me to file:///

Re:In firefox...

[Anonymous Coward]

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.

Re:In firefox...

[Slack3r78]

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.)

Re:In firefox...

[piper-noiter]

Exciting. Well, not really. Both Opera and Firefox have had this ability to make bookmark keywords for a long time. Woopty-freakin-do. Ranks up with the original post in terms of unnecessary information.

Speaking of the OP, as easter eggs go, yeah it is lame. Hardly worth a post. It's all just fanboyism of one type or another.

(burning some karma.)

Re:In firefox...

[GrievousMistake]

So, what cool keyword searches do people like to have?
When I set up Opera, in addition to the builtin 'g' for google, I add
'gi' for Google Images,
'w' for Wikipedia,
'wkt' for Wiktionary,
'imdb' for the International Movie Database,
'animenn' for Anime News Network and
'bm' for a Norwegian Bokmål dictionary.
It's become almost indispensable. Does IE7 have this yet?

Re:In firefox...

[cheater512]

Submit a patch. This is a critical bug which must be fixed.

Re:In firefox...

[Anonymous Coward]

running op on nokia 770 (maemo) and it of course brings me to the root of my machine, no sd

Re:In firefox...

[Anonymous Coward]

I remember using it extensively in IE6 before switching to mozilla browser then to firefox. I even think IE5 had this feature.

Problem is, it didn't have an exposed interface so not many people knew about it. I think you needed ietools or to edit the registry in order to access it.

Re:In firefox...

[Anonymous Coward]

Talk about obscure.

First, you have to know that you can right-click on an entry on the Bookmarks menu. The idea of right-clicking on a menu item is not something that comes to me immediately.

Then you have to guess that "Properties" actually covers "keyboard shortcuts".

Then you have to guess that "Keywords" actually means "keyboard shortcuts".

What is the point of spending time implementing stuff like this if it's not going to be used by anyone?

Re:In firefox...

[TheABomb]

That's exactly what happened to me with Opera.

Re:In firefox...

[An Onerous Coward]

Searches:

'g' google search (which sort of makes the search engine box in the upper right corner redundant)
'gcc' Google search for CC-licensed material.
'loc' Search local.google.com
'news' google news search
'quot' stock quotes (as in 'quot msft' or 'quot goog')
'amazon' Amazon search
'wiki' Search wikipedia (through Google)
'wikil' Search wikipedia, but using "I'm feeling lucky" (usually works)
'pydoc' Takes me to Python documentation for the required module (such as "pydoc os" or "pydoc random")
'flickr' Should be obvious
'yt' Youtube search
'bom' Search the Book of Mormon (yeah, there was a time when I did such things)
'spell' Search m-w.com (I use it as a sort of spell checker, for when I'm not sure I remember how to spell "occasion" or whatnot)

Shortcuts:

'bb' takes me to boingboing.net
'/.' takes me to slashdot
'pwot' pointlesswasteoftime.com
'ok' okcupid.com (I'm not lame! I'm not!)
'wwdn' Wil Wheaton's blog
'blog' Takes me to my bloggin' place.
'mail' Takes me to yahoo mail

I might set up a couple for Google Calendar eventually.

Re:In firefox...

[General Wesc]

So, what cool keyword searches do people like to have?

All the obvious ones mentioned by people, of course, plus:

• Dozens for a couple small sites I use.
• Queries for common DB queries using PhpMyAdmin on box. (for example, 'ecdbqid' for looking up eC user by id; localdb just for PhpMyAdmin on localhost.)
• demd5 for a reverse md5 lookup (+ demd5a through demd5c in case it's not found in the first database).
• de for http://www.dict.cc/?s=%25s
• e2 for Everything2
• ol for Onelook
• anagram for http://www.wordsmith.org/anagram/anagram.cgi?anagr am=%25s
• dns for http://www.dnsstuff.com/tools/ptr.ch?ip=%25s
• Shortcuts for numerous Google searches, of course.
• rot13 for http://rot13.com/index.php?text=%25s
• ensv for http://www.tranexp.com:2000/InterTran?type=text&fr om=eng&to=swe&text=%25s (At some point, I intend to define keywords for all the combos, but I think I have to edit bookmarks.html directly to do that en masse.)

And some others.

Re:In firefox...

[Deliveranc3]

Don't you find it's kind of funny that the best configuration you can come up with Opera ships with by default, bet there's lots of stuff like that... Oh well it's closed source guess it isn't an option.

Re:In firefox...

[Slack3r78]

How is that the best I 'can come up with?' I'm mainly pointing out that it's available in both browsers.

Re:In firefox...

[hkmwbz]

Ah, bookmark nicknames. Another feature Firefox "borrowed" from Opera :)

How about ctrl-l or F8

[Chuck Chunder]

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.

Re:How about ctrl-l or F8

[Neoncow]

I'm in the middle of making the switch to Opera and I use alt-d. The reason I do so is because alt-d is easily reachable and has consistant behaviour between Firefox and IE. F8 doesn't behave consistently across browsers and ctrl-l (my former muscle memory) pops up an annoying dialog in IE. Plus I swtiched to Dvorak, so my L is where the qwerty P is.

Bonus tip for FF -> Oprea switchers. Change Oprea's tab behaviour in the address bar to be closer to Firefox/IE.

speeddial

[GregoryD]

Hey all browsers have a "speed dial" function. It's called favorites or bookmarks!

Re:speeddial

[LosManos]

hejdig.

Well they have... until you read the article and see that Opera preloads the page. Plus: ctrl-1 is more of a shortcut than alt-b d down right s down down down enter.

/OF

Re:speeddial

[SEMW]

May I refer you to the third sentence of the summary?

Heh, some easter egg

[Jekler]

In Firefox, I've had /. set as my Slashdot keyword for years.

Re:Heh, some easter egg

[Anonymous Coward]

Got the same here with my FF.

Re:Heh, some easter egg

[Anonymous Coward]

pshhhhhh.........I've had /. set as my keyword for Slashdot in firefox since the PDP-11

Uh, Firefox has this also...

[DigitAl56K]

Depending on your particular language version of Firefox 2, out of the box it will jump to various sites simply by entering keywords.

For example:
wp slashdot - look up Slashdot on Wikipedia
slang pwned - look up "pwned" on UrbanDictionary

Simply entering "wp" and "slang" also work because of the way the URLs are formed. As far as I know you can configure others. I haven't looked into it extensively.

Re:Uh, Firefox has this also...

[DigitAl56K]

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.

Re:Uh, Firefox has this also...

[Zwicky]

I didn't know about the 'slang' and 'wp' keywords (thanks for those!), but I've been using bookmark keywords for a long time now, mostly for docs in HTML form that are tucked around the place on my PC. I give the bookmarks small keywords and access them exclusively with those.

Re:Uh, Firefox has this also...

[TychoCelchuuu]

Opera does this too. You can make your own; right click on any search field and click on "Create Search." I have "ma xxx" set to search Memory Alpha, "gv xxx" to search Google Video, "yt xxx" to search YouTube, "g xxx" Google, "gi xxx" Google Images, "wp xxx" Wikipedia, "d xxx" an online dictionary, "gr xxx" searches Gamerankings, "mc xxx" searches Metacritic, "imdb xxx" searches Internet Movie Database, "bt xxx" searches BitJunkie, and I can add any more when I feel like it. Pretty handy.

Re:Uh, Firefox has this also...

[amRadioHed]

Man, you sure do like your porn!

umm ?

[mattydont]

Who doesnt have slashdot as there home page anyway ?

Re:umm ?

[26199]

Because Opera uses persistent browsing there's little point in having a home page.

You just always have the pages open you had last time. If you were reading slashdot, you're still reading slashdot.

It's one of those features that you don't think about until you use it, then you can't live without it :)

Re:umm ?

[Joebert]

Because Opera uses persistent browsing there's little point in having a home page.

I'm not really a fan of searchbars or similar utilities, so I always go directly to search engine pages.
Right now I have Google set as my homepage, so using mouse gestures I right-click & move the mouse down a tad which will open a blank tab, then I double-click anywhere in that tab to go directly to my homepage.

Re:umm ?

[SolitaryMan]

You just always have the pages open you had last time. If you were reading slashdot, you're still reading slashdot.

I gave up this feature in Mozilla the day some dumb ass sent me a link to goatse, when I was at work. I reacted by simply closing the browser immediately. Then I started it again...

Re:umm ?

[26199]

You should have cleaned the temp folders out with bleach before launching it again :p

Re:umm ?

[Ngarrang]

You just always have the pages open you had last time. If you were reading slashdot, you're still reading slashdot.

So, my computer is reading slashdot while I am asleep? THAT explains the attitude it has been giving me.

So...

[Zann]

What's the Easter Egg for Digg?

Re:So...

[Joebert]

A Wingding shovel.
Have fun figuring that one out.

Wii

[LBt1st]

I'm posting this from my Wii and indeed typing /. works here as well.

Re:Wii

[Explodicle]

I get "Index of file:///" and then folders called "bin", "boot", "cdrom", "dev", "etc". I honestly have to say I liked the old /. layout better.

Re:Wii

[assassinator42]

That would be interesting to see on the Wii. It loads slashdot.org when I type ./ on the Wii browser as well.

Not an easter egg!

[zsau]

That's not an easter egg. Easter eggs are hidden features which are unrelated to the main task of the program. Usually they give credit to the team in a fun way.

At best, this is an undocumented shortcut. Lots of software has them.

(You can tell it wasn't hidden, because the obvious shortcut for "slashdot" is "/.". If it were hidden, you'd be doing something completely unlikely and suddenly and unexpectedly get to Slashdot, like pressing Ctrl+Alt+/, then Shift+Meta+., then double clicking on the "Help" menu item.)

Re:Not an easter egg!

[dkf]

If it were hidden, you'd be doing something completely unlikely and suddenly and unexpectedly get to Slashdot, like pressing Ctrl+Alt+/, then Shift+Meta+., then double clicking on the "Help" menu item.

Damn, time to change the keybindings on my apps to something less obvious.

Re:Not an easter egg!

[jones_supa]

You can tell it wasn't hidden, because the obvious shortcut for "slashdot" is "/.".

I wouldn't say it's obvious that a browser would go to Slashdot after typing "/." in the address bar. An obvious thing would be something like that the browser would activate address bar by pressing CTRL+L. If that kind of thing was undocumented it would just be an undocumented feature. But this "/." thing I would still certainly classify as an easter egg.

Re:Not an easter egg!

[zsau]

Damn, time to change the keybindings on my apps to something less obvious.

You use Emacs to run Opera? :)

Re:Not an easter egg!

[zsau]

I wouldn't say it's obvious that a browser would go to Slashdot after typing "/." in the address bar.

Wrong way. If there's a shortcut for going to slashdot, the obvious one is /. If someone told you there was a shortcut to going to slashdot built-in to Opera, /. in the address bar would be one of the first things you'd try (I hope!). Likewise, if someone told you there was a keyboard shorcut to activate the location bar, Ctrl+L would be high on your list of things to try.

But if someone told you your webbrowser had a hidden feature that caused it to quote from the opera Tristan and Isolde where would you begin?

Re:Not an easter egg!

[R2P2]

A "completely unlikely" shortcut for Slashdot would have to involve the Windows key.

Re:Not an easter egg!

[clickety6]

If it were hidden, you'd be doing something completely unlikely and suddenly and unexpectedly get to Slashdot, like pressing Ctrl+Alt+/, then Shift+Meta+., then double clicking on the "Help" menu item

That's not hidden, that's a standard emacs shortcut!

Re:Not an easter egg!

[Anonymous Coward]

Well, what do you suggest he use Emacs for, editing text?

Re:Not an easter egg!

[XO]

But, you have to press them all at the SAME TIME.

It takes like 4 arms to operate Emacs, doesn't it?

g and r

[LosManos]

hejdig.

FYI: writing "g whatyousearchfor" opens google, "r anothersearch" opens groups.google.
It is one of those things that one won't understand how good it is before one tries it.

/OF

Re:g and r

[Slack3r78]

It's actually incredibly easy to create your own search keywords in Firefox, too. I've had 'gis' mapped to Google Image Search for years now, for example.

Re:g and r

[ParanoidJanitor]

FYI: writing "g whatyousearchfor" opens google, "r anothersearch" opens groups.google.
It is one of those things that one won't understand how good it is before one tries it.

The g search shortcut is something I use on a daily basis, since it saves me the time of loading the search page. Also, right clicking on a search box and making your own search is another useful tool. A wikipedia search with this method is usually the first thing I set up in a new Opera install.

Re:g and r

[Joebert]

Gis mapper !

Re:g and r

[TheRaven64]

g]space] is more to type than [tab], so it's not a huge advantage for me. The other searches are useful. I'm glad Opera have implemented the control-number shortcut; I find the command-number shortcuts to jump to things in my (hidden) bookmarks bar in Safari to be invaluable.

Re:g and r

[SharpFang]

OTOH on 640x480 screen, having the address bar fit more than 20 characters without scrolling is a boon. You can disable the google bar and use the address bar only.

Re:g and r

[lbft]

It's exactly the same in Opera - right-click on a search form and click 'Create search'. In the box that pops up, type your keyword of choice.

Re:g and r

[XO]

Even non-geeks want to know why on earth you're using a 640x480 screen.

Re:g and r

[SharpFang]

'cause I just upgraded my mobile from 128x160px.

Nothing new

[adamgolebiowski]

/. is present in ELinks as sd for something like two years already. It's great to see Opera is catching up.

How Slashdot was named ...

[deek]

  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.

Re:How Slashdot was named ...

[Aoreias]

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).

Looks like it even gets easily mistyped when written out, too ;)

Re:How Slashdot was named ...

[fatphil]

Now reread his post.

Re:How Slashdot was named ...

[maxume]

I also am amused.

Why not to put /. on speed dial

[Anonymous Coward]

*ring*
Anonymous Coward: Hello?
CmdrTaco: Stop requesting my website and closing the connection ungracefully!
Anonymous Coward: Say what? Who is this?!
CmdrTaco: You know who this is!
Anonymous Coward: I have no idea..
CmdrTaco: Fool! I know you have Slashdot on speed dial, don't be playin'
Anonymous Coward: But I..
CmdrTaco: I star 69'd you! Don't you be disrespecting my server no more *click*
Anonymous Coward: ..

loving it

[scorilo]

I use both firefox & opera on my USB stick, but I find Opera more useful. It packs a lot (email with IMAP, IRC+RSS+torrent client, widgets in a small package), and with the latest version, you can block ads and add your own searches, which you could not easily do before (though you could with Firefox). You can also have the browser read pages to you aloud which I haven't figured out how to do with Firefox.

Mod me as a troll, if you wish, but my Opera experience vs. Firefox is similar to Mac vs. Ubuntu. This is not to say that it's necessarily better, but sometimes you just don't feel like configuring everything, and for those times, it's great to have someone who does it right for you, and to top it all, gives it away for free.

Re:loving it

[Anonymous Coward]

Your USB Stick has a screen??(!!!!?)

Re:loving it

[zuiraM]

Agreed. Now all it needs is built-in XMPP support and the Gtalk extensions to that, plus an orthodox file manager and an nvi-clone, and I'll be all set to spend most my time in Opera. :P

Re:loving it

[prionic6]

I think Emacs can do all that, and more.

Re:loving it

[krelian]

Main reason I use Opera instead of firefox is the simple fact that opera uses a third of the amount of memory firefox uses and is much much faster. It's that simple. But not everything is perfect since Opera still doesn't have an answer to firefox' extensions and for some reason the new slashdot "ajax" comment browsing is slowing opera to a crawl (now if I had firebug I could find out why).

Re:loving it

[Anonymous Coward]

There, I am not using slashdot for a month, if when I come back I still see this kind of bull crap being modded +5 interesting while posts about how the global warming discussion has been politized to death get modded -1 troll. I am gonna be away for 4 months, then 16 months and so and so... Bye

Re:Not an easter egg! (yet again in other news)

[__aalwyc6372]

my little sister told me, that easter eggs are colorful eggs well painted by some mad rabbit.

GNAA press releases

[Anonymous Coward]

Official GNAA press releases. For more information, follow each link. Each press release is presented as HTML with a download link for the cut-and-paste friendly text-only version. GNAA announces switch to Windows Vista (2007/02/25) CNN HQ Stormed By Elite GNAA Operatives, Classified 9/11 Information Broadcast (2007/02/03) Jewish pedophiles delete GNAA article from Wikipedia (2006/12/03) Lik-Dong closure leaves Noted Gay Nigger jobless (2006/10/25) GNAA Issues Apology In The Death Of Rob Levin's Bike (2006/10/25) GNAA investigators make unprecedented breakthrough in Reiser case (2006/10/13) GNAA suspected in death of Rob Levin (2006/09/16) GNAA CLAIMS RESPONSIBILTY FOR ASSASINATION OF TV HERO (2006/09/06) GNAA Claims Responsibility in Loli-Chan Raid (2006/08/22) GNAA campaign against PHP and ZEND bears fruit (2006/07/29) GNAA Adopts Trusted Platform Module (2006/07/28) Ten-thousand Freenet User Identities Compromised (2006/06/22) MARK SHUTTLEWORTH AND CANONICAL ANNOUNCE LINUX FOR NIGGERS (2006/06/01) David Blaine Fails, GNAA claims responsibility (2006/05/10) GNAA Announces Cleansing Of The Star Trek Gene Pool (2006/04/24) GNAA member JacksonBrown succeeds it, GNAA declares yet another victory over Apple (2006/03/22) GNAA Announces OneNigger Suite of Collaborative Trolling Utilities (2006/03/04) GNAA discovers Scientology's shocking roots in the association (2006/02/28) GNAA Announces Full Cybermilitary Support of the German Government (2006/01/20) Mehmet Ali Agca confessed who paid him to assasinate pope John Paul II (2006/01/18) Recent findings from the GNAAU prove that Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. was gay (2006/01/17) GNAA unveils "New for Jew Thousand and Six" product lineup (2006/01/01) GNAA announces 2005 a success (2005/12/31) GNAA Announces Corporate Downsizing and Administrative Reformation (2005/10/03) GNAA Mourns the Death of l0de and the l0de Radio Hour (2005/09/11) GNAA pledges aid to Katrina victims (2005/09/11) GNAA outreach program hailed as an overwhelming success (2005/08/06) GNAA Research Division exposes long standing Zionist plot (2005/08/05) GNAA sues the CDC for patent violations (2005/07/04) GNAA Announces Immediate Release of OSX_x86_YHBT (2005/06/14) Apple Bets Farm on Heterosexual Computing - GNAA Members Offended (2005/06/07) GNAA Congratulates the Debian Project on the Release of Debian GNU/Linux 3.1 "Sarge" (2005/06/06) GNAA exposes the dangers of hiring Latvians (2005/05/06) GNAA copycats arrested in LastMeasure child porn scam (2005/04/30) GNAA RESEARCH UNVEILS STARTLING DISCOVERY (2005/04/20) GNAA Bioresearch unveils the Ubernigger Project (2005/04/07) GNAA Mourns Passing of Litigious Nigger (2005/03/30) GNAA releases surprising new Easter research (2005/03/26) Terry Schiavo Announces Support for GNAA (2005/03/21) GNAA announces victory over the state of Georgia (2005/03/14) GNAA announces open source, object-oriented political revolution (2005/03/11) Niggersoft Announces GNAA/Hard (2005/02/11) Michael Sims Fired, Joins GNAA to Troll Slashdot Full Time (2005/02/02) GNAA unveils new 2005 product line (2005/01/25) God Exiled From Information Superhighway (2005/01/22) GNAA Declares ownership of 99.9% of all IRC networks (2005/01/21) GNAA declares boycott of all foods that make sperm taste bad (2005/01/12) Giant Tsunami of AIDS hits America (2005/01/05) GNAA announces Xanga-dotting of Something Awful (2004/12/27) GNAA more effective than Viagra, Cialis, study finds (2004/12/21) GNAA Announces Gay Porn Avalanche (2004/12/21) Low-Carb Movement Gains Internet Celebrity Support (2004/11/23) GNAA Member Arrested for Trolling (2004/11/10) Dremel Stock skyrockets amidst rumors of GNAA takeover (2004/10/31) GNAA freedom fighters attack mbonig into submission (2004/10/25) GNAA declares victory over Wikipedia (2004/10/07) GNAA introduces first open-source corpse (2004/10/01) LastMeasure hits the 100000 watermark (2004/09/27) GNAA Lysol on the 2004 Florida Presidential Ballot (2004/09/23) GNAA supplies arms, expertise to Iraqi Freedom Fighters (2004/09/21) GNAA reactionaries take Condoleezza Rice hostag

Steve's Monkey Dance Easter Egg?

[antdude]

Will that version include the famous monkey dance? [grin]

Re:Not an easter egg! (yet again in other news)

[zsau]

Well done to your, little sister.

No Problem

[bluemonq]

Opera has a built-in feed reader as well.

Free Mac?

[Anonymous Coward]

So where did you get the free Mac..?
Or did I miss the end of that analogy?

Re:Free Mac?

[Anonymous Coward]

Mine was written on an old discarded ISA ethernet card.

GNAA announces switch to Windows Vista

[Anonymous Coward]

GNAA announces switch to Windows Vista

fellacious (GNAP) Intercourse, PA - Windows Vista appears to finally be taking off, at least within one Fortune 100 company. The GNAA had for the past 13 years been using Red Hat Linux and it's successor, Fedora Core, but growing discontent with the free software operating system forced CTO Jmax to declare on Wednesday that the company was to be switching its entire infrastructure to the new version of Windows, effective immediately. "I'm not going to theatrically claim that I wasn't expecting to have to do this," Jmax said. "This has been coming for quite some time." The GNAA's troubles with Red Hat's Linux system included chronic governance problems, a persistent failure to maintain key repositories, a complex and undocumented submission process which has kept the GNAA's free trolling utilities off the Red Hat-based desktops of thousands of would-be trolls, inability to keep RPM up to date, and a failure to address the problem of Firefox not crashing a entire computer when the user loads Last Measure. "The deal-breaker, though, was when a key Last Measure server remained down for four hours while our entire Intercourse development team tried desperately to bring it up despite not having statically-linked package manager binaries." What had happened was Dikky, visiting from Norway, wanted to play the child pornography mod of Doom 3 on that server- which had to drag several libraries with it. "In addition," said Jmax, "several key software applications used in the GNAA's corporate workflow are proprietary software- which means that they had to be run in an Ubuntu compatibility environment anyway." However, being as those unnamed applications were written in C#.NET, "We expect that our transition to Windows Vista will come off without a hitch."

About Jmax:

The CTO of the GNAA, Jmax also has a seat on Microsoft's board of directors. His resume can be accessed at http://goatse.fr/.

About Windows Vista:

The fastest-growing desktop operating system on the market, Windows Vista combines the legendary security of Windows 98 with the legendary ease of use of those computer interfaces you see in the movies into one ultra-fast, ultra-stable computing platform.

About Red Hat:

A failure of a computer company, Red Hat burns through investor money while giving its products away for free. It is currently under investigation from the SEC for misuse of invested funds, and being sued by the GNAA for breach of contract for sucking more than specified in the GNAA's contract with Red Hat.

About the Linux community:

Trolled.

About GNAA:
GNAA (GAY NIGGER ASSOCIATION OF AMERICA) is the first organization which gathers GAY NIGGERS from all over America and abroad for one common goal - being GAY NIGGERS.

Are you GAY ?
Are you a NIGGER ?
Are you a GAY NIGGER ?

If you answered "Yes" to all of the above questions, then GNAA (GAY NIGGER ASSOCIATION OF AMERICA) might be exactly what you've been looking for!
Join GNAA (GAY NIGGER ASSOCIATION OF AMERICA) today, and enjoy all the benefits of being a full-time GNAA member.
GNAA (GAY NIGGER ASSOCIATION OF AMERICA) is the fastest-growing GAY NIGGER community with THOUSANDS of members all over United States of America and the World! You, too, can be a part of GNAA if you join today!

Why not? It's quick and easy - only 3 simple steps!

• First, you have to obtain a copy of GAYNIGGERS FROM OUTER SPACE THE MOVIE and watch it. You can download the movie (~130mb) using BitTorrent.

OR

[maximander]

Linux:
$ sudo bash -c "echo \"66.35.250.150 .\" >> /etc/hosts "

Windows:
Start->Run-> wordpad %SystemRoot%\system32\drivers\etc\hosts
and then add the line.

That is always good to know

[zappepcs]

Additionally, it seems that if you type 'firefox xxxxx' in the address bar, if there is anything indexed at the Mozilla site matching that, it will open that page rather than revert to the default search engine. Try 'firefox help' 'firefox keyboard' 'firefox backup' etc.

Re:That is always good to know

[Anonymous Coward]

That's because the Firefox help page is the top hit for... firefox help.

Dear Opera Developers

[TheVelvetFlamebait]

Please make this shortcut to slashdot much, much more obscure. You are insulting our geekiness, and not providing us with any kind of challenge. Thank you.

Firefox redirected me to some pr0n site

[Jusii]

Just tried this with Firefox and it redirected me to a site with huge pr0n collection.

Re:Firefox easter egg

[Anonymous Coward]

Type http://www.slashdot.org/ in the URL bar and hit Enter. You are automatically taken to slashdot.org.
IT'S MAGIC I TELL YOU

Of all articles to show up...

[Anonymous Coward]

I heard about this on IRC, tried it out and this article was the first one that showed.

Re:Of all articles to show up...

[ceeam]

Of course, it's because someone else on IRC have read this exact article and posted it. No magic. Sorry.

Nicknames/keywords

[pstorry]

And Opera has had keywords (it calls them nicknames) since version 3, released in 1998.

I don't recall if they worked for bookmark folders at that stage, though, But I was using nicknames for folders to open all my news sites back in 2001/2002, I think - before RSS was really common it was necessary to open a whole folder of bookmarks to do my daily reading. Just typing "news" and getting El Reg, Ars Technica, Slashdot and others was very handy...

Finding a feature in a browser that Opera didn't have first or didn't have an antecedent of is very, very difficult. :-)

What's the shortcut for goatse?

[Anonymous Coward]

Mine is set to "C:"

Opera runs without hardware DEP

[faramir_fr]

Do you guys still trust a browser that runs without hardware DEP? (buffer overrun protection)

A fully patched Windows XP SP2 box that runs the latest version of Opera will turn off DEP (Data Execution Prevention) for the Opera process. Leaving the door open to buffer overrun attacks. Not good at all.

The problem comes from the fact that the DEP OPTOUT mode should be called OPTOUT + BACKDOORS. There are currently 3 backdoors section strings that when found in the executable header disable the DEP for the process. These strings are .aspack (an executable packer used by Opera, IrfanView and XNView), .pcle (currently unknown) and .sforce (the VERY UNPOPULAR game/programs copy protection).

More about this on my blog. http://blog.fabriceroux.com/index.php?blog=1&title =hardware_dep_has_a_backdoor&more=1&c=1&tb=1&pb=1 http://preview.tinyurl.com/2cwcom

Re:Opera runs without hardware DEP

[Anonymous Coward]

I always boot the NT kernel with DEP completely OFF (AlwaysOff), DEP doesn't do that much good, it gives a false sense of security.

Re:Opera runs without hardware DEP

[pstorry]

Well, I trusted it for some seven years plus before DEP came along, so I guess the answer is yes.

It'd be nice if Opera supported DEP. I suspect it doesn't because they're very proud of its small size, even if it is enhanced by a packer. No other internet suite fits a browser, RSS reader, POP3/IMAP4 mail client, IRC client and NNTP client in such a small package. The packer makes it look even more impressive, of course, but even when unpacked it's still danged small for all that it does.

Opera has had surprisingly few really bad security issues over its lifetime - far fewer than most alternatives. The track history of the software and the attitude of its vendor do far more to assure me of its security than whether or not it uses hardware DEP support.

Because there's a difference between just being protected by hardware and being protected by good design. Other browsers may well support DEP, but we can probably all think of a certain browser that has an awful design which is almost impossible to truly secure because it places - deep in its design - functionality and integration with the OS above security.

DEP is nice, but not all attacks are buffer overruns. Some of them are just getting a browser to do something the designers thought was cool at the time, but didn't realise the security implications of.

Having read you article, I have a question - have you actually contacted Opera themselves about this and expressed your concerns to them? You don't say that you have, so I'm currently forced to conclude you're just griping for the sake of griping or worse, have no intention of doing more than self-publicising about this.

Speak to Opera. If you haven't before now, then start by apologising for posting this without first asking them what's up with this. Be polite, and tell them you'd like an official reply to follow up this entry with.

And in future, would you consider following responsible disclosure guidelines... If this is as serious as you seem to think it is, then it's bloody reckless of you not to, no?

Re:Opera runs without hardware DEP

[Ilgaz]

It is a funny thing to bring up for this specific browser title, Opera.

Opera has been packing executable for years and I can't remember a single buffer overrun bug in the wild.

You can say ANYTHING about Opera but you can't say it is insecure, period.

(posted via licensed Omniweb on OS X)

Re:Opera runs without hardware DEP

[ImTheDarkcyde]

didn't firefox have a security vunerabilty found every day last month?

Re:Opera runs without hardware DEP

[Anonymous Coward]

By default WinXP SP2 doesn't use DEP on applications.

Amaziiiing stuff

[ady1]

You mean jumping on one leg while holding the Wii controller open slashdot?

Re:Amaziiiing stuff

[MobileTatsu-NJG]

"You mean jumping on one leg while holding the Wii controller open slashdot?"

You really want to taunt a Wii user? He's bound to be in better shape than you.

Re:Amaziiiing stuff

[rwwyatt]

Remember, even round is a shape

Not just the unix crowd

[SmallFurryCreature]

The difference between slashdot (/.) and dotslash (./) is that the latter is in theory a legal address. Unless early monday sunshine has rotted my brain all internet addresses start with a . (.slashdot.org) to indicate the root of the address, just that it is usually left off.

The / indicates the end of the domain name and the start of, eh what is the rest called again, DAMN YOU SUN!

So ./ would be the website running on the root servers.

Or maybe I am just spouting nonsense.

Re:Not just the unix crowd

[Tim C]

Actually, I thought it was the other way around - not that all internet addresses start with a ., but that they *end* with a dot (which is left off, of course) - so "slashdot.org" could equally well be written "slashdot.org.". Thus http://./ would indeed be the default website of the root DNS servers (were such a thing possible), but because it's missing the domain name before it, not after it.

In fact, typing "slashdot.org." into both IE7 and Firefox2 gets you to slashdot, while typing "http://.slashdot.org" gets you a DNS name lookup error.

Holy Cow

[Romwell]

It works !! I've beem wasting my keyboard presses for months =) As for it being an easter egg, it is: bookmark nicknames cannot contain a dot or a slash. Also, note that Opera does have bookmark nicknames, in case you didn't know, so that you can type "sd" for slashdot as well. And "g stuff" to google stuff. Etc.

Emacs Easter Eggs

[tpholland]

you'd be doing something completely unlikely and suddenly and unexpectedly get to Slashdot, like pressing Ctrl+Alt+/, then Shift+Meta+., then double clicking on the "Help" menu item

So emacs is full of easter eggs...

[Ducks]

maemo

[mattsqz]

doesnt work with the opera on my nokia770 :( must only work in newer operas (770 uses Opera Version "8.02 Internal" Build "1.1.50)

Opera is gay

[Anonymous Coward]

Opera is a gay browser, if you want to use it go ahead, I don't have problems towards gay people.

Safari has this too

[sootman]

Command-1 through Command-9 activate the first 9 links in your bookmark bar. This works even when the bookmark bar is hidden. If you like speed and real estate (and have a good memory) it's a great way to go. I've set the first 4 links to be the same on every Mac I use and it's really handy--my most-visited sites are a keystroke away and it's the same wherever I am.

Re:Safari has this too

[bucktug]

the '/." address just opens the finder and to the root directory...

Another fun Opera trick....

[REggert]

Try hitting Ctrl-Alt-V. It will open up a tab that runs whatever page you are on through the W3C Markup Validation service. It's quite handy for checking your own pages for errors, or to find out just how badly someone else screwed up. :-D Running the Slashdot front page through it gives me the following: Result: Failed validation, 5 errors File: default.htm Encoding: iso-8859-1 Doctype: HTML 4.01 Strict This page is not Valid HTML 4.01 Strict! Below are the results of attempting to parse this document with an SGML parser. Error Line 291 column 126: delimiter "'" invalid: only S separators and TAGC allowed here. ...ads/sidenav_sky.js?'+dfp_ord+'">'); Error Line 291 column 126: end tag for element "SCR" which is not open. ...ads/sidenav_sky.js?'+dfp_ord+'">'); The Validator found an end tag for the above element, but that element is not currently open. This is often caused by a leftover end tag from an element that was removed during editing, or by an implicitly closed element (if you have an error related to an element being used where it is not allowed, this is almost certainly the case). In the latter case this error will disappear as soon as you fix the original problem. If this error occured in a script section of your document, you should probably read this FAQ entry. Error Line 292 column 121: delimiter "'" invalid: only S separators and TAGC allowed here. ...ication.com/pagead/show_ads.js"> '); Error Line 292 column 121: end tag for element "SCR" which is not open. ...ication.com/pagead/show_ads.js"> '); Error Line 2091 column 443: end tag for element "STYLE" which is not open. ...n-right: 110px \!important; \}')} For shame, Slashdot, for shame!

Re:Another fun Opera trick....

[REggert]

Yeesh... should have Previewed that before I Submitted.

Here it is again, demangled:

-----

Try hitting Ctrl-Alt-V. It will open up a tab that runs whatever page you are on through the W3C Markup Validation service. It's quite handy for checking your own pages for errors, or to find out just how badly someone else screwed up. :-D

Running the Slashdot front page through it gives me the following:

Result: Failed validation, 5 errors
File: default.htm
Encoding: iso-8859-1
Doctype: HTML 4.01 Strict

This page is not Valid HTML 4.01 Strict!

Below are the results of attempting to parse this document with an SGML parser.
Error Line 291 column 126: delimiter "'" invalid: only S separators and TAGC allowed here. ...ads/sidenav_sky.js?'+dfp_ord+'">');

Error Line 291 column 126: end tag for element "SCR" which is not open. ...ads/sidenav_sky.js?'+dfp_ord+'">');

The Validator found an end tag for the above element, but that element is not currently open. This is often caused by a leftover end tag from an element that was removed during editing, or by an implicitly closed element (if you have an error related to an element being used where it is not allowed, this is almost certainly the case). In the latter case this error will disappear as soon as you fix the original problem.

If this error occured in a script section of your document, you should probably read this FAQ entry.

Error Line 292 column 121: delimiter "'" invalid: only S separators and TAGC allowed here. ...ication.com/pagead/show_ads.js"> ');

Error Line 292 column 121: end tag for element "SCR" which is not open. ...ication.com/pagead/show_ads.js"> ');

Error Line 2091 column 443: end tag for element "STYLE" which is not open. ...n-right: 110px \!important; \}')}

For shame, Slashdot, for shame!

finally!

[akorvemaker]

I was looking for this over four years ago!

Re:Firefox easter egg

[Yvan256]

Type http://www.slashdot.org/ in the URL bar and hit Enter. You are automatically taken to slashdot.org.

Actually you only have to type slashdot.org, which is 12 keystrokes instead of 24.

Marge! I've just doubled my productivity! - Homer

About Time

[Anonymous Coward]

About time Opera got some well-deserved recognition. It outbeats all other browsers both in performance and funcitonality. Go Opera! :D :)

You know...

[Anonymous Coward]

You can actually set up bookmarks to those sites (or groups of tabs--open the whole set, then bookmark that "set of tabs") and add the keywords you described (go to that bookmark's properties, type in the keyword). The sad thing is that I'm tempted to set up some of those now...

This being slashdot, I wouldn't be surprised if someone made an extension / offered a Mozilla patch to do something like that just because they were bored... :-)

RSI etc..

[freaker_TuC]

"You really want to taunt a Wii user? He's bound to be in better shape than you."

I don't know with those RSI problems lately and flying remote controls..
I just don't know ....

But Opera gave /. the force of Law (binary).

[NRAdude]

How would you like the legislature (created by the King's bench) to hard-code the Statutory venue to point all references of "Cool" to the Office of CowboyNeal?

You can't reason with the binary over the meaning and interpretation "/." and how it bipasses all mater of re-appraisal at the URL field. A bigger quest would be to determine if the easter-egg can be supplanted by a systemic replacement in its shortcut/favorite tab. I don't have access to my console, and haven't upgraded Opera beyond version 7 on it. Can anyone test that?

A trait of a polymorphic virus is it can modify the binary/law of itself, while Opera has only hardcoded "/." at compilation. Has anyone experimented in polymorphic applications that keep their configuration within the binary? That's a neat survey, and could do-away with /etc if acceptably implemented.

Nice, but old stuff

[Nicolay77]

I've being doing this in Opera for months, perhaps years.

In fact the first time I realized it, I just thought: 'one moment, I don't remember saving that /. bookmark'.

Anyway, good thing you noticed it ^^.

blocked?

[Treates2]

i just typed /. in firefox and spysweeper said it blocked access to /. oh hoy hoy!!.

I suggested this to Mozilla in 2004...

[Ezza]

https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=25891 8

The background loading thing that Opera also does is of course new.