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> What is the "content discovery" thing they are refocusing on? Perhaps it includes things like the changes to the AwesomeBar they're making? It now (in beta)
by Amezarak 11y ago
> What is the "content discovery" thing they are refocusing on?
Perhaps it includes things like the changes to the AwesomeBar they're making? It now (in beta) appears to prefer doing searches and visiting the root of a domain over your bookmarks and history. For example, instead of visiting the local Transmission instance hosted on my NAS when I type "transmission" into the location bar, it wants to "transmission - search with {your default search engine}.
(It also gives much weirder suggestions presumably based on the domain name - if I only type "trans" it suggests I visit "translate.google.com", a site I have visited twice in two years, vice the previous behavior, my transmission local instance. So no matter what I do, I have to hit tab twice instead of once.)
For me, this behavior is extremely annoying and disrupts my entire location-bar-typing-experience, but by suggesting web searches, perhaps it's meant to encourage content discovery.