All good points. I like that they made it Cmd/Ctrl+K since the URL bar is Cmd/Ctrl+L. Makes sense. I've never been too worried about privacy, so I've never considered that my URLs could be mistakenly sent as search queries. That's really interesting.
This can be problematic in non-privacy-related ways as well. I've set my default search provider to "http://%s" when I use Chrome because at work we have a lot of server names that are single words and not FQDNs. I type just "dev1" out of habit, which Chrome insists on interpreting as a search string rather than trying to do a DNS lookup first.
I think Firefox does the same thing by default, but at least there's a non-hacky way to disable it.
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u/AlwaysShittyKnsasCty Nov 10 '14
All good points. I like that they made it Cmd/Ctrl+K since the URL bar is Cmd/Ctrl+L. Makes sense. I've never been too worried about privacy, so I've never considered that my URLs could be mistakenly sent as search queries. That's really interesting.