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Separate address and search bars is old-fashioned If you type in the search bar then it automcompletes by sending all of your keystrokes to your search provide
by AndrewDucker 13y ago
Separate address and search bars is old-fashioned
If you type in the search bar then it automcompletes by sending all of your keystrokes to your search provider. If you type in the address bar then it autocompletes by using your history.
These are two very different use cases, and I appreciate the ability to search my history without notifying google of the name of internal servers.
- collyw 13y agoIf you type something that is clearly not a web address, firefox send it off to a search engine as well. It sends mine to whatever search engine is selected in the search bar.
- Silhouette 13y agoTrue, but not the same as sending even things you type that are real addresses to the mothership as well. That discloses every site you ever visit (by typing its name, at least) to a third party for no particularly good reason, which is an obvious privacy issue, and it seems unlikely that most users realise this is happening, which makes the privacy issue much worse.