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jahewson on April 11, 2015 | parent | context | favorite | on: Why we will not be registering easydns.sucks

Autocomplete could work the other way around, with "n" finding `∗.news` and `g.news` finding `∗g.news`, after all that `news.google.com` actually starts with `http://`.

kissickas on April 11, 2015 [–]

Personally, I don't start typing every address knowing that autocomplete will be there for me. I'm just sped up when it is.

pbhjpbhj on April 11, 2015 | [–]

You always start with http[s]:// ??

Since the AwesomeBar became a thing and I learnt the #, *, ^, + search modifiers [1] I've seldom typed an address.

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[1] http://alicious.com/fast-bookmark-and-history-search-in-fire...

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