You can now perform actions like “clear history,” “open downloads,” or “take a screenshot” just by typing into the address bar.
They’ve reinvented the command line.
Yet they call this the simpler bar, huh?
Command line is the definition of simple. It’s not easy, but it is simple: you type a command and it runs the command, that’s it. Knowing what commands to run is what makes is it difficult, but the interface is incredibly simple.
I love how the top two points, “Choose how you search, right from the address bar” and “Keep your original search visible” are things that we always had by default in the old days with the separate search bar, until Firefox blindly copied Chrome and went to the unified bar.
And now it’s back as if it’s some kind of revolutionary feature, rather than they made it worse and now they’re making it better again.
Not that I ever stopped using the separate search field, I always turn that on.
unpopular opinion: firefox copied chrome because the unified bar is simply better. the separate search field always felt like clutter to me even before i used chrome