Use a Question Mark to Search for Files in Firefox [Firefox Tip]

Posted on September 21, 2008 by Kevin Purdy.
Categories: Contributors, FireFox.

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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