Now every time I see the word smarter from firefox, I’m afraid they’ll add some AI somewhere new. Glad it wasn’t the case here.
You can now perform actions like “clear history,” “open downloads,” or “take a screenshot” just by typing into the address bar.
They’ve reinvented the command line.
Yep, just like all those command palette apps like Alfred, Raycast, and inside VS Code.
Yet they call this the simpler bar, huh?
I’m all for it
Keeping the search terms in the URL bar rather than replacing it with the URL is nice. Should help with searches on web engines that don’t support bangs.
I hope the https hiding doesn’t affect copying the URL.
… that I didn’t ask for and that you probably won’t let me turn off. Thanks for nothing.
Turn off what? The address bar? What prevents you to use the address bar like usual?
Also what do you ask for?
This is ridiculous. I like the way it’s set up now. They tried “simpler” before and I hated it and turned it off. Along with the news they’re supposedly getting rid of tags for bookmarks (I have so many bookmarks without tags they’d be useless) I’m just feeling so much despair for the web right now.
Also disabling showing HTTPS in the address bar as part of the URL is another negative change catering to what they believe is the lowest common denominator. Consider for a moment that browsers still support multiple protocols besides hypertext transfer.
