robtoo
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Comment · 14 years ago
Also, the UI in Firefox for changing the address bar search engine is awful -- about:config, click through the warning, then find and edit keyword.URL (which is in a different format to everything else)
Comment · 14 years ago
I think the only use for the search box now is to give people easy access to multiple (or a secondary) search engine. Sure, it's ugly, but it does give users a clear and simple way to search wikipedia for "widgets".
Chrome, on the other hand, only exposes non-Google search engines through the search engine keyword thingy, which means a user has to actually type "en.wikipedia.org widgets" into the omnibox. Sure, tab-completion will do half the work, but the user still has to remember to start typing "en." rather than, say, "wikipedia".
I know that Chrome (and, indeed, Firefox) allow you to edit those search engine keywords, but that is power-user territory, and power-users can edit their Firefox UI as well. http://i.imgur.com/mS5Ot.png
Comment · 14 years ago
I've had a look at Google's docs[1], and it's really not clear to me what Chrome's omnibox offers that Firefox's address bar (or whatever they call it) doesn't.
Comment · 14 years ago
Regular consumers really don't care about version numbers. They probably don't even know which version of Office they have installed, let alone their web browser.
Comment · 14 years ago
FWIW, the first line of the linked page does read
Olly, the author of OllyDbg, presents his new open source joke:
Comment · 14 years ago
It would have been a lot more useful if the link had said how/why the ADM-3A used hjkl as cursor keys.
Comment · 14 years ago
They even admit it's not just governments they sell to: VUPEN customers include worldwide governments and major corporations in finance, technology and manufacturing. [http://www.vupen.com/english/company.php] although their continued use of weasel words does stop just short of admitting that they're enabling industrial espionage.
Comment · 14 years ago
The headline is "major new version" not "new major version".
Comment · 14 years ago
I would feel a lot more confident about actual compliance if Chrome came on board with this as well.
Comment · 15 years ago
Search engines certainly should interpret it that way, but I think the point was to question whether they all (for someone value of "all") really do do it that way in practice.
Comment · 15 years ago
Huh. ssh used to offer this feature natively -- just symlink any hostname to the ssh binary -- but it turns out that they removed this about ten years ago.
(I feel old...)
Comment · 15 years ago