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A monk well ahead of his time
Planned a clock that could measure the sky
But Cromwell, the shit,
Tore the whole thing to bits
I can't think of a finishing rhyme

@Vincent@feddit.nl was dead right in their comment here - you can escape out of the search by tapping Esc twice, at which point you're back to the URL. Panic over!

Great news, thanks! And likewise, I'll give it a chance. Ideally I'd be able to get to the URL from the omnibar with an extra click, to get the best of both worlds.

Yup - most typically to change TLD (e.g. from example.com to my own country, when I'm after local results) or as a quick way of copying the URL without unnecessary extra arguments to share elsewhere.

I've not used LibreWolf, but assuming that Firefox addons are generally compatible, it might be worth trying Chrome Mask. It's made by a Mozilla employee.

I like most of this, but if search term persistence makes it harder for me to tweak the URL (like on mobile), it's going to be really annoying. I'll suspend judgment until I've tried it, I guess.

It's not an insecure app per se, but it is an uncontrolled app, in the context of an organisation's communication. Some of the GOP have tried to imply that it's the product that's at fault, but it's user error all the way.

Can't believe I'm defending the guy, but it was a (slightly lame) joke he made when addressing soldiers at the base. It works - you can immediately see he establishes rapport.

literal barbage

Not at all, they're the smallest member of the bear family - really very small indeed.

There's no way you could see a tardigrade at this scale. They're very small.

I've used the "writing tools" extensively for minor changes, like changes to capitalization on a large block of text. It makes the phone a little less of a consumption-only device.

I've also found the image editing tools handy from time to time, and the automatic calls to ChatGPT on the more complex natural-language questions can sometimes be handy, even if you need to wait a while for the response.

The notification summaries are sometimes very handy and sometimes absurdly incorrect and misleading.

I'm really looking forward to Siri being less frustratingly stupid, but we've got a while to wait for that, and we probably shouldn't set our expectations too high. I do respect that they've not shipped it rather than shipping something broken, though.