This post is a rant.  I’m only moderately pulling my punches.  Yes, it’s probably about you.  You have been warned.

Many people have the Google search engine web page set as their default page.  That’s fine, and not a terrible idea.  When you want to find something, and don’t know where to go for it, Google’s a fantastic gateway.

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I mentioned in an earlier post that I had abandoned Chrome to return to Firefox. I admired Chrome’s slim UI and the ability to search directly in the URL bar. Firefox has its search bar, and it also supports keyword searches from the URL bar, but I had yet to find a way to search directly from the URL bar itself.

I found that today.

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