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Re:Firefox 28 Release Notes by aestra on Tuesday March 18, 2014 @01:37PM (#7423504)
>only offering search suggestions if the string typed so far doesn't look like a URL

How would this work? Lets say I wanted to search for Wikipedia, perhaps because I know there's news about it. How would Firefox know I was going to type "Wikipedia" and not "Wikipedia.com"?

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Re:Firefox 28 Release Notes by bzbarsky on Tuesday March 18, 2014 @01:46PM (#7423579)
Yes, it's things like that that make this approach complicated and failure-prone. Which is why Firefox is not doing it.
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