> Six years ago, Chrome and Firefox enabled search in the location field. This goes to show that innovation is only what you can forcefully shove down your use

> Six years ago, Chrome and Firefox enabled search in the location field. This goes to show that innovation is only what you can forcefully shove down your users' throats. Years before Chrome or Firefox even existed, Opera had this feature in 1998 by way of custom inline searches (e.g. type "g search this in Hoogle" in the address bar), and later defaulting to Google searches for non-urls. This didn't catch on until Mozilla and Google did it, just like most people don't buy into something until the "right" person tells them it's kosher. Software and hardware are practically fashion; outside of small minority groups that see the value of a product for themselves, you need to convince the majority through nice acts of salesmanship (making something look 'cool', or by simply using the 'take it or leave it' approach) to invest (time/will power/money) in something that will help them. /rant