[LINK] Why does Firefox send non-URL text in the location bar to Google etc.?

[Karl Auer]

On Mon, 2011-01-03 at 18:47 +1100, Robin Whittle wrote:
> I intended to copy and paste a URL into the Firefox (WinXP 3.6.13)
> location bar.   I hit enter before I realised I had actually pasted a
> phrase from an email I had just been editing.  The browser sensed it
> wasn't a URL and sent it to Google, so within a fraction of a second I
> had Google results for the words in this phrase.

http://support.mozilla.com/en-US/kb/Location%20bar%20search
http://support.mozilla.com/en-US/kb/Smart%20keywords

The first also helps you turn off that incredibly irritating thing where
Firefox automatically adds ".com" to the end of things...

Regards, K.

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