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Or switch to Firefox, which haS an address bar and a separate search-only box.
by JJMcJ 6y ago
Or switch to Firefox, which haS an address bar and a separate search-only box.
- trulyme 6y agoThis. I understand why some people don't know (or care about) the difference between the search box and the address bar, but why engineers accept the merged input is beyond me.
- TylerE 6y agoBecause it saves, on the aggregate, keystrokes. For something you do dozens of times a day even a tiny gain adds up over time.
- somehnguy 6y agoI was going to argue that it doesn't save keystrokes when I frequently have to go back and fix the bad guess. But then I realized that you're right - the time saved over the years when I actually do want to Google a specific term likely *far* exceeds the time I've spent fixing the bad guesses. I guess I'll just accept the flaws that come with it.
- ptx 6y agoHow does it save keystrokes? I press ctrl+L to enter a URL or ctrl+K to enter a search, the same number of keystrokes regardless of which box I want to focus.