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Re:Firefox 28 Release Notes by kibwen on Tuesday March 18, 2014 @02:05PM (#7423762)
Personally, my reason for preferring them separate is that I use the address bar to search my browsing history, which doesn't work if it's cluttered up with search results and prior search history.
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Re:Firefox 28 Release Notes by bhassel on Tuesday March 18, 2014 @05:26PM (#7425096)
You can add special characters to your address bar search to restrict it to only browsing history, or bookmarks, etc. There is a list of them here: https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/awesome-bar-find-your-b...

For example, "^ hacker news" will only search your history, and "* hacker news" only in your bookmarks.

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Re:Firefox 28 Release Notes by danudey on Tuesday March 18, 2014 @04:58PM (#7424922)
The perfect examples I use for this: when I'm trying to use a local hostname from my hosts file (e.g. 'devserver') and it googles it unless I type http:// in front, or when I'm trying to google an IP address and I have to go to the Google home page first.
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