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Use A Question Mark To Search For Files In Firefox

By Kevin Purdy on September 22, 2008 at 10:00 AM

The gHacks blog points out a neat trick for searching out terms with periods in them without auto-triggering an attempt to load a web site: put a question mark (?) before the term. Great for hunting down shareware executable files and pasting in dates and phone numbers separated by dots. Know a better work-around? Tell us in the comments.


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  • Jason
    September 22, 2008 at 10:47 AM

    Maybe his shirt should have read,

  • MengBomin
    September 22, 2008 at 10:38 AM

    Maybe his shirt should have read,

  • bana
    September 22, 2008 at 10:17 AM

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  • USBman
    September 22, 2008 at 11:10 AM

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  • JeffDrake
    September 22, 2008 at 1:21 PM

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  • Zepth
    September 22, 2008 at 2:34 PM

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  • gsarig
    September 22, 2008 at 8:07 PM

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  • kevish
    September 23, 2008 at 1:26 AM

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    September 23, 2008 at 2:49 AM

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  • chints
    September 23, 2008 at 3:59 AM

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  • Theborg3of5
    September 23, 2008 at 7:02 AM

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  • JeRrYFaR
    September 22, 2008 at 4:26 PM

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