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This is is an unpopular opinion on a place like Hacker News, but it is correct. Users want access to the information they are looking for as quickly and fricti
by samsolomon 5y ago
This is is an unpopular opinion on a place like Hacker News, but it is correct.
Users want access to the information they are looking for as quickly and frictionlessly as possible—the omni bar does just that.
- megous 5y agoctrl+k and I know I'll be searching in a web search engine ctrl+l and I know I'll be opening an URL and if the domain doesn't exist it will fail I can't really count anymore how often omnibar just searched for some local domain I tried to type in, in a search engine, instead of just telling me that domain doesn't exist because I made a typo or whatever. Having to type https:// https:// in front of every URL is also not very pleasant, especially on mobile phones. Also browsers assuming that anything outside of PSL is to be searched in a search engine right away instead of resolved as a domain, is another annoyance for this user. At least the browser could be less stupid and consider local search domains part of PSL, but no. So whether omnibar is more of a hindrance than help depends on the user/use case. I also kinda like the distinction that ctrl+l is only searching locally in bookmarks/history and ctrl+k is public search.