Comments on: Add Ping to Address Bar in Firefox and Opera

By: FAE

FAE — Sat, 28 Feb 2009 14:15:24 +0000

Nice blog…

By: Martin

Martin — Sun, 23 Mar 2008 08:16:35 +0000

Mutant a ping abot 100ms is normally very bad unless you are on a slow connection

By: Marc-O

Marc-O — Wed, 19 Mar 2008 00:47:00 +0000

verified. On opera, right click on the textbox, select “create search”, and add the “ping” keyword.

By: Mutant

Mutant — Tue, 18 Mar 2008 18:33:28 +0000

I did try it out.It worked for ghacks.net and it gave me the following result.

“Average time over 10 pings: 130.8 ms”

but how to interpret it?

By: Marc-O

Marc-O — Tue, 18 Mar 2008 17:11:24 +0000

I think a simpler way to add this to opera is to load the page, right-click the textbox and select something like “create custom search”, and then simply add “ping” to the keyword command.

It’s one of my favorite opera functionnality (custom search). So much as it render the google search box useless… Actually, it’s directly the google philosophy, in the browser: just one textbox…

(I haven’t tested yet, but I will tonight)

By: Mike

Mike — Tue, 18 Mar 2008 16:40:58 +0000

Could not get this to work. I’m using Firefox 3b4 and I added the URL to my bookmarks with the Ping tag. When I type ping in my address bar the site comes up but it won’t attach the domain I type after it to the end of the ping service’s url. Any ideas?