Where’s G?
GMail is a pretty known thing these days, known for its ever-expanding account size and other features.
One thing people tend to not know very widely is that if your browser’s default search engine is Google, you can just type G in your address bar, and boom you are ported to GMail. Pretty snazzy trick, huh? (I actually removed GMail bookmark from my toolbar because of this.) It’s pretty nice if you have a notifier so you don’t have to monitor a tab.
Well, for some reason starting yesterday at work, this trick doesn’t work anymore. When you go to “G”, you are directed towards a search result of g. Yesterday when I started this post, I found nothing in my feed list about this. I am quite shocked. I am also a bit bummed that something occurred which made this nice Easter egg vanish.
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that was a snazzy trick … thanks for the tip …
TypeForm
21 Nov 07 at 01:27
Firefox bookmarks have the option of setting up a ‘keyword’ for every bookmark entry. It’s possible that you had the letter ‘G’ set up as the keyword for your gmail bookmark (either purposely or inadvertently) and then accidentally deleted it when you deleted your bookmark from the toolbar, which in turn removed the link from your bookmarks. To set it up again just create a regular bookmark to gmail, then simply go into the Bookmark drop-down list and right click on your gmail bookmark link and select ‘Properties’ at the end of the context menu list, and a small window will open up. In the field named “Keyword” just type in the letter ‘G’, and click on OK. From then on when you type the letter ‘G’ in your browser it will automatically go to gmail. Obviously you can set up every bookmark with its own keyword, whether it be a single letter, a single number, or any alpha and/or numeric word/string of your choice. As a side point: the bookmark window also has a ‘Description’ field and I’ve found it useful to type in a password if the link goes to something that requires me to login and if it’s something where the password is either long or hard to remember. The process of right-click / copy / paste ends up being faster then typing a password when logging in to a site.
Eric Patterson
2 Dec 07 at 16:37
Eric that is a good tip for new users. Unfortunately, the two things you talked about doesn’t apply to me.
RyanB
5 Dec 07 at 15:40