Industry wants you to open apps and click buttons and links, and not worry about such things as bothering with what the URL may be, or gasp, even typing in or editing your own URL. That's too complicated and dangerous for 'normal' users apparently according to them.
Wondering how far they can take this. How long before we read that "Google will replace URLs with the Google search terms you can use to find the page you're viewing"
Sounds like the I'm feeling lucky button will finally be used and abused by Google. I already hate that search is merged into the url bar even in Firefox if I type an internal hostname sometimes instead of trying to resolve it googles it or duckduckgo's the damn hostname even at times where it ends in .com from an intranet url I dont understand why its so stupid in those cases either, Chrome being worse than Firefox in this regard. I dont mind it on mobile where real estate on my screen is already expensive.
From a quick google (ironic, I know), you can disable this by disabling `keyword.enabled` in the `about:config` menu. If you still want a way to search without manually navigating to a search engine site, there's also a setting in `about:preferences` to add a separate search bar to the browser interface.
* Some smart people want to simplify it, but theres too “magic”, and fades away
* General public learns about the underlying tech or at least structure
* Big adoption happens as people trust it
* Some people want to make it “magic”/simple again, but therefore creating a black box
Forward a few years, and the industry seems inaccessible for a long time
* people figure out again how things work
Medical, construction, tech, space, movies.. almost everything has this pattern
People mostly already do this organically, without any encouragement. The vast majority of users don't want to know about "URIs" or other technical details.
Isn't that already the case? The odds of accessing internal sites on chrome are already quite lower, any weird thing on the URL and you just can't anymore.
