# "S" = McDonald's? (FireFox question) **URL:** \ **Category:** Factual Questions\ **Created:** [January 11, 2006, 4:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/s-mcdonalds-firefox-question/339507 "2006-01-11T16:38:54Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![scr4](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/59ef9b/32.png) [@scr4](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/scr4)\ **Post date:** [January 11, 2006, 4:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/s-mcdonalds-firefox-question/339507/1 "2006-01-11T16:38:54Z")
I’d start FireFox, type a single letter “s” in the URL window, and press enter. It goes to the McDonald’s web site. At first I thought maybe they had the **[s.com](http://s.com)** domain, but that doesn’t seem to be the case. Why does this happen? (In case you’re wondering, I often go to the URL window and type a single letter, then choose from the list of recently-visited URLs that begin with that letter that appears automatically. Sometimes I’d mess up and press enter before I choose any.) ---
**Author:** ![Rysto](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/ecccb3/32.png) [@Rysto](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rysto)\ **Post date:** [January 11, 2006, 4:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/s-mcdonalds-firefox-question/339507/2 "2006-01-11T16:44:13Z")
It does a “I’m Feeling Lucky” Google search, which somehow comes out with McDonald’s. ---
**Author:** ![KlondikeGeoff](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/3e96dc/32.png) [@KlondikeGeoff](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/KlondikeGeoff)\ **Post date:** [January 11, 2006, 5:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/s-mcdonalds-firefox-question/339507/3 "2006-01-11T17:06:53Z")
Just tried it. Yup, that is odd indeed. You do know, dontcha’, that if you just type in a name (such as “google”) and hit Ctrl + Enter, it puts the “[http://www](http://www).” before and the".com" after and takes you right there? ---
**Author:** ![DarrenS](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/977dab/32.png) [@DarrenS](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DarrenS)\ **Post date:** [January 11, 2006, 5:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/s-mcdonalds-firefox-question/339507/4 "2006-01-11T17:14:26Z")
**Rysto** nailed it. Another interesting one is to just type “http”, without the quotes. ---
**Author:** ![Squink](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/b5e925/32.png) [@Squink](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Squink)\ **Post date:** [January 11, 2006, 5:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/s-mcdonalds-firefox-question/339507/5 "2006-01-11T17:14:59Z")
**A** is for Apple. **B** is for the Israeli Information Center for Human Rights in the Occupied Territories. **C** is for cspan. **D** is for dlink. (Of Course! :smack: ) **E** is for E! online. **F** is for f-secure. **G** is for Gmail. **H** is for h-net. **I** is for itools. … ---
**Author:** ![pulykamell](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pulykamell/32/3166_2.png) [@pulykamell](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pulykamell)\ **Post date:** [January 11, 2006, 5:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/s-mcdonalds-firefox-question/339507/6 "2006-01-11T17:17:25Z")
Hmm…I just get a Google Search Results screen, with the “S” ticker symbol and a chart for “Sprint” on top. ---
**Author:** ![Mike\_H](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/ecd19e/32.png) [@Mike\_H](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mike_H)\ **Post date:** [January 11, 2006, 5:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/s-mcdonalds-firefox-question/339507/7 "2006-01-11T17:40:07Z")
**J** is for J-Low (natch) **K** is for the K desktop enviornment (Whatever the hell that is) **L** is for the European Union … p.s., **pulykamell** , on the initial Google Search screen at [www.google.com](http://www.google.com) there is a “I’m Feeling Lucky” button. Click that instead of “Search Now”. ---
**Author:** ![jjimm](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/ba8739/32.png) [@jjimm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jjimm)\ **Post date:** [January 11, 2006, 5:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/s-mcdonalds-firefox-question/339507/8 "2006-01-11T17:46:35Z")
**V** gets you the Victoria and Albert Museum, London. Which is bizarre. ---
**Author:** ![Mindfield](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mindfield/32/19759_2.png) [@Mindfield](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mindfield)\ **Post date:** [January 11, 2006, 5:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/s-mcdonalds-firefox-question/339507/9 "2006-01-11T17:47:38Z")
K Desktop Environment (KDE) is a desktop shell that runs on top of Linux, much like Gnome. ---
**Author:** ![Mindfield](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mindfield/32/19759_2.png) [@Mindfield](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mindfield)\ **Post date:** [January 11, 2006, 5:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/s-mcdonalds-firefox-question/339507/10 "2006-01-11T17:49:11Z")
Incidentally, they should have made “C” for “Cookie.” That would have been good enough for me. ---
**Author:** ![scr4](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/59ef9b/32.png) [@scr4](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/scr4)\ **Post date:** [January 11, 2006, 6:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/s-mcdonalds-firefox-question/339507/11 "2006-01-11T18:05:31Z")
> [@Rysto](#): > > It does a “I’m Feeling Lucky” Google search… Thanks, that explains it. I guess Google looks at “McDonald’s” in the page title and indexes it as two words, “McDonald” and “s”. ---
**Author:** ![KlondikeGeoff](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/3e96dc/32.png) [@KlondikeGeoff](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/KlondikeGeoff)\ **Post date:** [January 11, 2006, 6:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/s-mcdonalds-firefox-question/339507/12 "2006-01-11T18:28:47Z")
> [@jjimm](#): > > **V** gets you the Victoria and Albert Museum, London. Which is bizarre. Oh hell, was hoping it was for Victoria’s Secret. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![DarrenS](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/977dab/32.png) [@DarrenS](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DarrenS)\ **Post date:** [January 11, 2006, 6:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/s-mcdonalds-firefox-question/339507/13 "2006-01-11T18:30:51Z")
Guess what “cecil” gets you! ---
**Author:** ![Rysto](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/ecccb3/32.png) [@Rysto](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rysto)\ **Post date:** [January 11, 2006, 6:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/s-mcdonalds-firefox-question/339507/14 "2006-01-11T18:38:05Z")
W gets you Dubya. ---
**Author:** ![corkboard](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/e9bcb4/32.png) [@corkboard](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/corkboard)\ **Post date:** [January 11, 2006, 7:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/s-mcdonalds-firefox-question/339507/15 "2006-01-11T19:01:29Z")
> [@Mindfield](#): > > Incidentally, they should have made “C” for “Cookie.” That would have been good enough for me. I’m still laughing at this. ---
**Author:** ![FilmGeek](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/b19c9b/32.png) [@FilmGeek](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FilmGeek)\ **Post date:** [January 11, 2006, 7:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/s-mcdonalds-firefox-question/339507/16 "2006-01-11T19:05:05Z")
M gets you Texas A&M N gets you [www.the-n.com](http://www.the-n.com) O gets you o’reilly publishing P gets you [pflag.org](http://pflag.org) Q gets you [qformusic.com](http://qformusic.com) R gets you [r-project.org](http://r-project.org) T gets you at&[t.com](http://t.com) U gets you university of arizona W gets you the white house X gets you [x.org](http://x.org) Y gets you [messenger.yahoo.com](http://messenger.yahoo.com) Z gets you [atozteacherstuff.com](http://atozteacherstuff.com) Why yes, I do have too much time on my hands. ---
**Author:** ![Atticus\_Finch](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ec9cab/32.png) [@Atticus\_Finch](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Atticus_Finch)\ **Post date:** [January 11, 2006, 7:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/s-mcdonalds-firefox-question/339507/17 "2006-01-11T19:15:58Z")
> [@Squink](#): > > **B** is for the Israeli Information Center for Human Rights in the Occupied Territories. That is, **B** ’Tselem… ---
**Author:** ![pulykamell](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pulykamell/32/3166_2.png) [@pulykamell](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pulykamell)\ **Post date:** [January 11, 2006, 7:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/s-mcdonalds-firefox-question/339507/18 "2006-01-11T19:25:44Z")
> [@Mike H](#): > > p.s., **pulykamell** , on the initial Google Search screen at [www.google.com](http://www.google.com) there is a “I’m Feeling Lucky” button. Click that instead of “Search Now”. I understand. I’m just saying that in Firefox, when I do what the OP says (typing “s” in the URL bar), it doesn’t automatically go to McDonald’s, but the Google results page. ---
**Author:** ![spingears](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ebca7d/32.png) [@spingears](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/spingears)\ **Post date:** [January 11, 2006, 11:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/s-mcdonalds-firefox-question/339507/19 "2006-01-11T23:00:04Z")
> [@scr4](#): > > I’d start FireFox, type a single letter “s” in the URL window, and press enter. It goes to the McDonald’s web site. At first I thought maybe they had the **[s.com](http://s.com)** domain, but that doesn’t seem to be the case. Why does this happen? > > (In case you’re wondering, I often go to the URL window and type a single letter, then choose from the list of recently-visited URLs that begin with that letter that appears automatically. Sometimes I’d mess up and press enter before I choose any.) Yep. It works for me! TOO! Suspect the Mickey has another URL which redirects the “S” input. ---
**Author:** ![scr4](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/59ef9b/32.png) [@scr4](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/scr4)\ **Post date:** [January 11, 2006, 11:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/s-mcdonalds-firefox-question/339507/20 "2006-01-11T23:04:51Z")
> [@pulykamell](#): > > I’m just saying that in Firefox, when I do what the OP says (typing “s” in the URL bar), it doesn’t automatically go to McDonald’s, but the Google results page. Are you typing it in the URL bar and not the search bar? What version do you have? And I think it’s just the **'s** in the web page title that’s causing this. Look at all the other top hits for single character searches - they mostly contain **'** \ or \ **-** (the search character preceded or followed by dash or apostrophe). [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/s-mcdonalds-firefox-question/339507.md?page=2)