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		geon on May 27, 2011 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: ICO.gov (click on continue without agreeing to coo... There's no reason to have a URL bar on the top of the screen all the time, just to enter a url manually. A "Enter URL" menu item would Work just fine.

gurraman on May 27, 2011 | [–]

I think the pentadactyl[1]/vimperator[2] ui is nice; I can see the URL of the page I'm currently browsing, but it claims minimal screen real-estate.

[1]: http://dactyl.sourceforge.net/pentadactyl/ [2]: http://vimperator.org/vimperator

gcb on May 27, 2011 | [–]

having the url bar always visible had the added benefit of not promoting dumb thins like vignete cms url schema.

plus I more copy from urls than type then in in

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