Silly Browser Trick: V for Firefox

A colleague just found this by chance: If you type “v” in the browser location on firefox and hit enter you’ll end up on the V for Vendetta homepage. Incidently I just bought the DVD and loved the movie to bits. But how does it work?

Easy: First of all your Firefox must be set up to use Google.com as the default search engine. If that is the case, any entry that cannot resolve to a real server goes through Google.com and the first result is displayed – much like hitting the “I feel lucky” button.
As someone paid enough to make V for Vendetta the first result for ‘v’, this is what happens.