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by SlashmanX 3537 days ago
> By the way, what's the purpose of the bar at the top? The back button of the browser already does that, even on mobile.

It's to counteract the fact that in some browsers on mobile, it will just show "google.com" in the URL bar, the added bar shows the actual website. (Obviously this is a problem introduced by the whole caching thing but that's why it's there I guess)