Chromium cleans up its act and daily DNS root server queries drop by 60B
Can someone explain why this couldn't have been implemented purely client side and validating if what was entered was first even a valid hostname? Or were the DNS queries only run after they passed an initial check?I think this is one of the key problems that emerged by merging the search functionality into the location bar. I still now always enable the separate search bar for Firefox and avoid running searches in the so-called Awesome bar. I still consider a search and host lookup very different operations in my mind.