‘Slashdot’ Easter egg in the Opera browser
Published March 5th, 2007 11:37 AM EST By Daniel GoldmanWhen I visited Opera’s headquarters last week, David Storey mentioned to me an Easter egg in Opera that I hadn’t been aware of previously. (Software-based Easter eggs are hidden, undocumented features or messages in applications)
It turns out that this Slashdot Easter egg has been in Opera for a quite while already. If you type the “slash” and “dot” symbols in the URL bar (i.e. “/.”) and hit enter, it will forward to Slashdot’s website.
Try it yourself.
Step 1: Type the “slash” and “dot” symbols
Step 2: Hit enter; redirects to Slashdot
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Gah, sekret information!
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LOL
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and //. redirect to opera:drives
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Yes, but does it run Linux?
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Step 1: Add /. easter egg in Opera browser
Step 2: ???
Step 3: Profit!
Seriously though, cool! And here I’d been using my “sd” shortcut like a sucker.
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Pierre: Thanks! You learn something new every day!
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That’s cool.
I recently discovered a keyboard shortcut I wasn’t aware of, for a feature I wasn’t aware of. When you press the period (”.”) key, it pops up a little “Find in page” search, and it will find anything you type in. I’m used to the field I always put in the toolbar, but I don’t remember anything about this popup thing…
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GT500: That’s a well documented feature, but nice indeed
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This finding need to be slashdotted!
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Pierre, nice find that //. redirects to opera:drives. I discovered // (without dot) does the same.
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Been using that /. for a while
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I, for one, welcome our new Operatic overlords.
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That’s kinda neat.
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It works also on the Wii browser!
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Doesn’t work in Opera for Windows Mobile.
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It’d make me laugh to see some Firefox fanboy write an entire extension just so they could get this feature in their favorite browser, too.
I decided to try this out in Firefox.. I figured they might have it. It just spun its wheels. “I’m sorry, I’m trying to look up http://www…. but I just fail. Here, enjoy my 404 page.”
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GT500 thanks for the find in page shortcut.
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I suggest adding “♫” for opera.com
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nice!i like it:D Are they any more ?
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@IceArdor: Yeah, that would be funny, considering that you don’t need an extension to make it work in Firefox. Opera isn’t the only browser that lets you assign a nickname to a bookmark (only Firefox calls it a keyword).
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That’s fine. Are there more eastereggs in Opera?
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Uuh. I thought Opera just searched Google when you typed something random into the address bar.
Anyone who can confirm that this is hardcoded into Opera?
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I no longer need to manuelly enter slashdot.org into my browser.
I never really use bookmarks anyways, never manage to get around to transfering them around to my other computers anyways. Thanks to opera for doing it for me.
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@Svip: Try a Google search for “/.” — it won’t come up with anything. That pretty much confirms that it’s being handled as a special case and not a search.
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Opera never seases to amaze me. Greatest browser ever.
Opera runs great on a Zaurus SL-5500 running OpenZaurus!
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Greatest browser ever.
Opera runs great on a Zaurus SL-5500 running OpenZaurus!