Shortcut keys to Complete URL

It’s always such a boring to type http://, www. and .com whenever we want to visit a certain website. But being myself as a lazy person who is often looking for ways and means to make my task or job simpler, I simply use some simple tricks like, you can type in word like gedetbasumatary, and use shortcut keys to complete the url with a http://, www and a .com.

So guys there is a simple tricks on modern browsers, such as IE7 and Firefox, hitting Ctrl + Enter will automatically fill in the http://, www. and the .com part of the URL. Here’s an Example example. I type in gedetbasumatary

Now hit Ctrl + Enter together and it will automatically fill up the http://, www. and .com

Voila you have saved 15 keystrokes

Here’s few more shortcut key combinations to complete a URL.

Ctrl + Enter – Auto-complete .com address

Shift + Enter – Auto-complete .net address

Ctrl + Shift + Enter – Auto-complete .org address

If you add Alt to any of this key combinations, it will auto-complete and open new address in a new tab as well. For example, Alt + Ctrl + Enter will auto-complete .com address in a new tab.

Note:- I have experiment this tricks in Firefox and IE 7 only and it works well. There is a possibility of working in other browser as well.

Additional Keyboard Shortcuts

Open links in a new tab in the background CTRL+click

Open links in a new tab in the foreground CTRL+SHIFT+click

Open a new tab in the foreground CTRL+T

Switch between tabs CTRL+TAB/CTRL+SHIFT+TAB

Switch to a specific tab number CTRL+n (n can be 1-8)

Switch to the last tab CTRL+9

Close current tab CTRL+W

Close all tabs ALT+F4

Close other tabs CTRL+ALT+F4

update1- This tricks is mentioned by one of my commentor named mymytri.

1. Pressing F3 will bring find in this page search bar.
2. pressing F11 will expand your screen
3. Pressing Ctr + r will reload your screen or say will refresh it.

So do you also have some tricks and want to share, just leave a message or contact me.