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Re:Microsoft Edge now gets even more out of your battery by yodon on Thursday September 15, 2016 @11:54AM (#12507180)
Chrome and Firefox both manage to search for system.web if I type that into the address bar. This is a solved problem, everywhere except for Edge.

Edit: It looks like only Chrome and Safari have figured out how to do this.

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Re:Microsoft Edge now gets even more out of your battery by pjc50 on Thursday September 15, 2016 @12:00PM (#12507235)
Am I misunderstanding you, because I just typed "system.web" into my FF address bar (not search box) and it gave me a "can't find the server at system.web" error as I'd expect?
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Re:Microsoft Edge now gets even more out of your battery by vxNsr on Thursday September 15, 2016 @02:04PM (#12508347)
--This works for me on build 1511 for edge... Maybe I'm doing it wrong but I can search for anything as long as its not recognized as a TLD. It appears to have the same functionally as chrome in regards to searching vs. browsing.--

EDIT: Ok, I missed the part where you switched the search to google, now it fails completely, sad.

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Re:Microsoft Edge now gets even more out of your battery by gcp on Thursday September 15, 2016 @01:20PM (#12507977)
If you type system.web into the address bar, Firefox gives you a list with 2 choices:

a) Visit system.web b) Search google for system.web

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Re:Microsoft Edge now gets even more out of your battery by Sylos on Thursday September 15, 2016 @05:47PM (#12510108)
Why should it search for it rather than try to connect to it? It's a valid address. And ".web" is an assigned Top-Level Domain as well: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/.web
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