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by Silhouette 5081 days ago
Firefox's bar works exactly the same as Chrome's now.

Is it exactly the same? In Firefox, AFAIK you don't get every URL you type sent off to Google for logging as part of the instant search system; that only happens with things you type in the separate search box. In Chrome, I'm not sure whether it's the default for a new installation at the moment, but that capability is definitely there for anything you type in the (only) box.
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cdr 5081 days ago
I meant exactly the same as far as an average user is concerned - you never have to use the search box (I remove it), you can just put search terms in the main box and it'll use the configured provider.

I will admit FF is a little worse at confusing search terms for a URL on occasion, but that's a minor annoyance at best.

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Silhouette 5080 days ago
It wasn't the annoyance I was commenting on, but rather the privacy implications of combining the two bars when what you would type in one of them is typically sent off to some search engine somewhere in real time.
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bgilroy26 5081 days ago
It's the same almost all of the time, but some searches with colons will be run through the URL path instead because it thinks you meant http://
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