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Firefox and Google Maps Backwards Typing

Friday August 22, 2008

04:51:37 pm - Weirdish - Comments (3)

I noticed an awesome bug today while looking up directions on Google Maps.

Do this:

  1. Using Firefox, go to Google Maps.
  2. Click the Print link just above the map. This will pop a new FF window and a modal print dialog.
  3. Go back to the original FF window and type something somewhere, like in the address bar, or some web form or wherever.

Did it type in reverse? No? Honestly, it would sometimes not work for me either. But, between Lori and I we did see it happen in both Win XP and Vista with either FF2 or 3, including my new laptop (which doesn’t have Linux installed yet, or I would have probably checked there too).

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Anyway, I thought it was a fun bug so I wrote a blog post about it.

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Comments

  1. Eater
    Friday, August 22, 2008 05:28:04 pm

    Nack on Ff3/Linux.

  2. dpb
    Sunday, August 24, 2008 09:37:19 am

    Leopard / FF3 = no

  3. bobafred
    Sunday, August 24, 2008 11:31:20 am

    seems to work for me in linux / ff3. using ubuntu 8.04.

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