Bug: Google.com
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Using google chrome
Able to repro on my machine, and my bosses. I don't think it's a feature, because there's no repro on firefox.
- Go to google.com
- Click in the search bar
- Press 'spacebar'
Watch as the google search box disappears.
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What "search bar"? Are you talking about the thing directly below the tabs or the thing under the Google logo?
I can't reproduce this with either of them.
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I have the google.com screen up that has the personalized tabs underneath (4x2 grid)
I enter a space in the place under the logo, by the microphone icon
chrome Version 35.0.1916.153 m
Logged in user (my boss was too)
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Google.com, or the loading screen for Chrome, which shows the Google search screen, as well as commonly visited sites?
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Yeah, I can reproduce by opening up Chrome on what they call the "New Tab" page. Searching for ANYTHING in the Google search box (not the address bar) simply places focus on the omnibar and hides the search control.
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Oh shit, you're right. (I normally always use the omnibar, so didn't notice the more obvious)
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That's nice and logical and, dare I utter it, discoverable.
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Well, I'm typing in google.com, but I think it might be redirecting to my local page.
I wonder if this is a bug or a feature, maybe an anniversary of the omnibar? Maybe calling attention to the omnibar?
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Wish I knew, I have an extension to load a web page instead of the New Tab page, so I'm not used to seeing it.
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Yeah, I can reproduce by opening up Chrome on what they call the "New Tab" page. Searching for ANYTHING in the Google search box (not the address bar) simply places focus on the omnibar and hides the search control.
Yes, it's been like that since at least chrome 33. And it pisses me the fuck off to no extent, because when I open a new tab and want to search google using, say, a website image URL, it puts it in the URL and then goes to that URL instead of searching the URL and showing me similar results like I wanted. Old Chrome just searched when I used the search box and navigated when I used the navigation box *gasp so crazy*.
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Ctrl-CCtrl-L?Ctrl-VEnter
Gets you what you want.
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Not for me it's not... ;) Yay for being on OS X right now.
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Clearly I can work around it in a number of ways.
But it'd be a lot easier if they left the search box alone to do what a search box does. Search.edit - it also wouldn't be so bad if they didn't emulate their actual webpage look and feel in the newtab window, making it look even more like a search box than a "tries to read your mind" box
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Google believes it knows you better than you do.
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They probably do, too.