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Re:Chrome 69: “www.” subdomain missing from URL by md_ on Thursday September 06, 2018 @03:55PM (#17929081)
Don’t Firefox and Safari also have a single bar for searches?

Yet neither company runs a search engine. I don’t suppose it’s possible this is just better for most users?

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Re:Chrome 69: “www.” subdomain missing from URL by Multicomp on Thursday September 06, 2018 @04:28PM (#17929284)
Firefox will allow you to search via the address bar, but it still has a separate search bar to the right by default.
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Re:Chrome 69: “www.” subdomain missing from URL by qu4z-2 on Thursday September 06, 2018 @06:28PM (#17930196)
Also, if you go into about:config and turn off keyword.enabled, the address bar will no longer search.

It's very useful if you don't want to Google internal/client URLs just because you accidentally copied a space at the start or the hostname doesn't resolve in your current environment, etc.

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Re:Chrome 69: “www.” subdomain missing from URL by joshuamorton on Thursday September 06, 2018 @04:34PM (#17929335)
This doesn't appear to be the case?

[1]:https://www.techworld.com/download/internet-tools/firefox-63...

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Re:Chrome 69: “www.” subdomain missing from URL by r3bl on Thursday September 06, 2018 @05:22PM (#17929667)
It still exists, but the default changed.

Now you can go to menu -> Customize and drag it where you want.

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