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Re:Burying the URL by saraid216 on Thursday May 01, 2014 @02:15AM (#7678524)
I've never understood the claim that the omnibar was a usability problem. It's really only a problem if you have an ideological issue with preferring to search Google... which isn't a usability issue.
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Re:Burying the URL by bagels on Thursday May 01, 2014 @02:24AM (#7678542)
It is confusing because there are these other things (urls) you could put in to the address bar that cause something different to happen from searching google.
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Re:Burying the URL by DanBC on Thursday May 01, 2014 @04:25AM (#7678788)
Not so much a usability problem but a climate change nightmare.

All of those people entering partial URLs in the omnibox, causing a Google search, releasing CO2 is terrible when they could be using local bookmarks.

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Re:Burying the URL by insky on Thursday May 01, 2014 @09:25AM (#7679543)
Good point. I wondered why this didn't happen under my Chrome, but I have a different search engine and have unchecked the box under Settings->Advanced->Privacy.

I'm not sure what gets sent with regards to spelling helpers? That could almost be like a keylogger? I wonder how it works. I've turned that off also.

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