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I will admit still being baffled why Google wants us to type searches into the address bar. When I first saw that behavior, I thought "but what if it's a valid URL?". Sure enough, I've made that mistake several times.

I'm sure it's a mess for less tech savvy people trying to do searches on companies that have .com or .net suffixes on their names.

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Because they want you to use google as your portal to the internet.

I change my Firefox copies to have separate boxes, and no search from url bar. I don’t recall offhand as it’s muscle memory, and I’m on a phone, but I think it’s ctrl-k for location and ctrl-l for search.

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