firefox and Elbereth

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I wanted to engrave with my fingers but I was distracted, so instead of
writing in the dust I wrote in the address bar of the firefox window,
so that it pointed to "E-Elbereth".
Then I hit return.
Do you folks know what happened, or am I the only one who didn't knew?
d

 

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davidùn wrote:
> I wanted to engrave with my fingers but I was distracted,
> so instead of writing in the dust I wrote in the address
> bar of the firefox window, so that it pointed to "E-Elbereth".
> Then I hit return.
> Do you folks know what happened, or am I the only one who
> didn't knew?
> d

I use IE, but Firefox may have a keyboard shortcut to get to
the address bar. You may have accidentally "fat fingered" that
shorcut prior to engraving and lost connection to the server.

Are you dial-up or cable/DSL?

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davidùn wrote:
> I wanted to engrave with my fingers but I was distracted, so instead of
> writing in the dust I wrote in the address bar of the firefox window,
> so that it pointed to "E-Elbereth".
> Then I hit return.
> Do you folks know what happened, or am I the only one who didn't knew?
> d
>
Heh, that's pretty cool! Raisse should be made aware of this...
Definitely smells like an Easter egg to me. Who wants to be the first
to spoil it for the non-Firefox crowd?

-Ken

 

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RecRanger wrote:
> davidùn wrote:
>
>>I wanted to engrave with my fingers but I was distracted,
>>so instead of writing in the dust I wrote in the address
>>bar of the firefox window, so that it pointed to "E-Elbereth".
>>Then I hit return.
>>Do you folks know what happened, or am I the only one who
>>didn't knew?
>>d
>
>
> I use IE, but Firefox may have a keyboard shortcut to get to
> the address bar. You may have accidentally "fat fingered" that
> shorcut prior to engraving and lost connection to the server.
>
> Are you dial-up or cable/DSL?
>
> --
>
A hint for you: the OP received an unexpected but very apropos web page
as a result.

-Ken

 

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In article <119bp9tr7v1t625@corp.supernews.com>,
Ken Cuvelier <kvcflameNO@SPAMyahoo.com> wrote:
>davidùn wrote:
>> I wanted to engrave with my fingers but I was distracted, so instead of
>> writing in the dust I wrote in the address bar of the firefox window,
>> so that it pointed to "E-Elbereth".
>> Then I hit return.
>> Do you folks know what happened, or am I the only one who didn't knew?
>> d
>>
>Heh, that's pretty cool! Raisse should be made aware of this...
>Definitely smells like an Easter egg to me.

Not really.

At least on the default (Win32) Firefox setup, if it receives an unknown
domain name (eg "e-elbereth"), it just does a Google I'm Feeling Lucky
for that string.

Cheers,

Phil

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Philip Kendall wrote:
> In article <119bp9tr7v1t625@corp.supernews.com>,
> Ken Cuvelier <kvcflameNO@SPAMyahoo.com> wrote:
>
>>davidùn wrote:
>>
>>>I wanted to engrave with my fingers but I was distracted, so instead of
>>>writing in the dust I wrote in the address bar of the firefox window,
>>>so that it pointed to "E-Elbereth".
>>>Then I hit return.
>>>Do you folks know what happened, or am I the only one who didn't knew?
>>>d
>>>
>>
>>Heh, that's pretty cool! Raisse should be made aware of this...
>>Definitely smells like an Easter egg to me.
>
>
> Not really.
>
> At least on the default (Win32) Firefox setup, if it receives an unknown
> domain name (eg "e-elbereth"), it just does a Google I'm Feeling Lucky
> for that string.
>
> Cheers,
>
> Phil
>


Well, it's not limited to Win32, or else it's limited to Win32 and
GNU/Linux On further reflection, it's a little surprising what that
particular Google search hits. Thanks for demystifying ;-)

-Ken

 

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davidùn wrote:

> I wanted to engrave with my fingers but I was distracted, so instead of
> writing in the dust I wrote in the address bar of the firefox window,
> so that it pointed to "E-Elbereth".
> Then I hit return.
> Do you folks know what happened, or am I the only one who didn't knew?
> d

I didn't know, so I tried it. Nice!

Sidsel

 

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In news:<1117114428.577947.172070@g14g2000cwa.googlegroups.com>, davidùn
<davide.saccon@gmail.com> says...
> I wanted to engrave with my fingers but I was distracted, so instead of
> writing in the dust I wrote in the address bar of the firefox window,
> so that it pointed to "E-Elbereth".
> Then I hit return.
> Do you folks know what happened, or am I the only one who didn't knew?

Not so surprising really, is it?

Unless you weren't aware that typing something which is not a valid
address in Firefox's address bar (if set up the default way) makes a
Google "I'm feeling lucky" search for the type phrase. Which of course
is the same thing as searching for "E-Elbereth" in Google, and then
going to the first page in the results. (<http://www.google.com/search?
q=e-elbereth>)

Try typing 'davide saccon' etc to see what happens.

Or is there some subtle thing here that I am missing?

/Kristoffer

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