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Some users are skittish of Chrome's autocomplete since it could potentially send anything you type into the address bar to Google's servers. Mozilla also makes
by bitsoda 12y ago
Some users are skittish of Chrome's autocomplete since it could potentially send anything you type into the address bar to Google's servers. Mozilla also makes money from selling 'search box real estate' to different providers. So it's more discoverable when the search is in its own designated box.
- 1111123itsme 12y agoIt's also what some of us frickin' want. I like having a separate search bar, because I can easily control which engine I'm using, and I from the URLbar I can search my history/bookmarks without irrelevant auto-complete results junking it up.
- magicalist 12y agoIt really doesn't take much effort to combine the two. e.g. https://blog.mozilla.org/theden/2013/04/17/combine-your-firefox-search-bar-and-address-bar/ https://blog.mozilla.org/theden/2013/04/17/combine-your-fire... I prefer it as well, but I think it's fine as an option via extensions.