Comment by ryandrake
15 days ago
Browsers never should have gotten rid of the separate and dedicated search bar. I don't want my browser guessing whether what I'm typing is a search or a URL. It should be easy to guess, but they frequently get it wrong for doubtless stupid reasons. If you can't even reliably classify a URL vs. a search, just have two separate text inputs, like the old days!
One of my favorite relics of this era was walking up to somebody's computer in the office and being able to see what they searched for last.
Vivaldi still has it as an option. That said, I keep them combined and can't remember the last time it guessed wrong.