[flatulent1]

It seems like the tech sites that end up with mega-publisher owners are a bit soft in articles that cover products from major potential advertisers.

Conde Nast owns Wired, arstechnica, webmonkey, and reddit

Tabs to the side of the address bar? Using the URL space for search? What are they smoking?

We'll see how standards support actually turns out...

[bvi]

As a user who regularly has 15+ tabs open simultaneously, this is the one reason I cannot see myself using IE9.

[maguay]

URL space for search? That's one feature that Chrome had first, and most people seem that I've seen to like it. Of course, for me, Chrome's best feature is that it picks up sites you search on and automatically adds them to the search engine list ... that's convenient.

[subsection1h]

> URL space for search? That's one feature that Chrome had first

Firefox has had this feature since in 2004 [1]. It's called Smart Keywords [2]. It can be enhanced with an extension called SmartSearch [3].

[1] http://www.wired.com/science/discoveries/news/2004/11/65668?...

[2] http://support.mozilla.com/en-US/kb/Smart+keywords

[3] https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/188/

[alanh]

Can’t put a year to it, but Opera supported this (even without Firefox-style keywords) years and years ago.