Re:Every search bar looks like a URL bar to users
by 8ytecoder on Thursday October 14, 2021 @01:41PM
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Firefox has has an "omni" bar for a long time. Firefox could search your bookmarks and history as you type in an URL (in addition to keywords that could trigger searches). It was one of the key reasons (in addition to tabs) that I switched to Firefox back in the day. (Or am I misremembering this?)
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Re:Every search bar looks like a URL bar to users
by chrismorgan on Thursday October 14, 2021 @07:30PM
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It was back in Firefox 3 (released a few months before Chrome was announced) that Firefox’s address bar got the last significant pieces of that functionality and was dubbed the AwesomeBar.
I think that at that time Firefox still struggled with single-word searches from the address bar, treating them as domain names; if so, that was probably the last material difference (as distinct from social) before Firefox could reasonably remove the search box by default.
Re:Every search bar looks like a URL bar to users
by WorldMaker on Thursday October 14, 2021 @05:30PM
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Yes, Firefox was one of the first to define the "omni" bar experience, but one of the slowest to remove (by default) a dedicated search box even after they proved most users were using the "omni" bar.