RE: Firefox usability data on Location Bar

From: Close, Tyler J. <tyler.close@hp.com> Date: Tue, 10 Apr 2007 22:15:55 -0000 Message-ID: <08CA2245AFCF444DB3AC415E47CC40AF9A371A@G3W0072.americas.hpqcorp.net> To: <public-wsc-wg@w3.org> · This archive was generated by hypermail 2.2.0+W3C-0.50 : Tuesday, 5 February 2008 03:52:46 GMT

> From: Mike Beltzner [mailto:beltzner@mozilla.com]  
> http://money.cnn.com/2005/11/30/technology/domains_biz20_1205/

Wow, I think that article makes a powerful argument that putting a URL
bar at the top of the browser window is very confusing for users. I
think this phenomenon supports replacing the URL bar with a search box.
DNS is not meant to be a search engine and is open to abuse when used as
one.

Tyler