To the best of my recollection, before the address field ended up doing double duty for web searches, the defaulting to .com happened across several browsers (n

To the best of my recollection, before the address field ended up doing double duty for web searches, the defaulting to .com happened across several browsers (never thought it was just Windows, though). — So for a while, I ended up getting .com domains, even when I had and wanted country domains, and redirected the .com to the country specific domain.