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Re:Firefox 76 by Wowfunhappy on Tuesday May 05, 2020 @03:23PM (#23083795)
I mean, anything related to aesthetics is going to have some difference of opinion. Mozilla appears to have concluded it's the people who dislike the address bar who are a verbal minority, or they wouldn't have gone with it.

And who knows, maybe Mozilla is right—but I wonder if they've actually done large-scale feedback gathering. This isn't the sort of thing you can suss out just from looking at analytics.

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Re:Firefox 76 by pbhjpbhj on Tuesday May 05, 2020 @05:25PM (#23085261)
Almost everyone I know uses Google instead of the address bar, gah.
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Re:Firefox 76 by Wowfunhappy on Tuesday May 05, 2020 @05:39PM (#23085395)
That means they still use the address bar though, doesn't it? Either to type the search term, or to go to Google.com.
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Re:Firefox 76 by pbhjpbhj on Wednesday May 06, 2020 @10:09AM (#23091105)
You'd think .. but no: Google is the default homepage, so they type in to the search field. It's mad.

Some have Bing as their homepage, if you've ever done IT training you might know the next line. They do it differently, they type "Google", click a link to go to Google, then type "BBC" (say), and click on the link for "bbc.co.uk". It's insane.

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