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"Separate address and search bars is old-fashioned" Chrome is almost unusable for me because I can no longer type the names of internal websites and have them
by ghshephard 13y ago
"Separate address and search bars is old-fashioned"
Chrome is almost unusable for me because I can no longer type the names of internal websites and have them come up. That single change in its behavior drives me back to Firefox.
- dermotbrennan 13y agoIf you put '/' at the end of the internal address it will resolve it correctly. Although I switch between both browsers a lot so I don't always remember that trick.
- UVB-76 13y agoIf there are a few that you frequently access, you could set the URLs as 'search engines' with the hostname as the keyword, or even a shorthand keyword Even fewer keystrokes.
- ghshephard 13y agoThat works - I can't tell you how many hundreds (possibly even thousands) of times I was frustrated by that issue with chrome, before I gave up. I can now come home again.
- Aldo_MX 13y agoThis is strange, where I typed localhost, Chrome prompted me if I really meant localhost/
- GyrosOfWar 13y agoYou could try Fauxbar, which is a Chrome extension version of the Firefox Awesomebar. I really like it.
- collyw 13y agoyeah, it hacked me off when every time I mistyped a 127.0.0.1 address, that t would send the information to the borg when using Chrome.