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I remember not too long ago a colleague of mine gave me address to internal monitoring system that we use. I tried to find it few minutes later in chrome omnibar by typing almost exact url i.e. page was aaa.bbb.com so I typed aaa bbb. It gave me nothing, just search suggestions. I'm guessing chrome does it on purpose. The less browser history they search in chrome and show back to you the more you'll go to google web search and that's ad money for them.

That's why I'm back on Firefox after quantum release. I hope mozilla never, ever, ever does something like this but I remember seeing something similar on nightly once. It gave you search suggestions first, that redirected you to google, with option to disable it in settings.




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