If you're often on Facebook, say
Type "fac" in the address bar and facebook.com will probably come up as a suggestion, which you then click on. This is rather quicker than going to Google and typing "facebook" into the search bar every single time.
(lolwhites, Thu 4 Oct 2012, 22:22, 3 replies)

Nope. Just brings up my bookmarks.
This most only apply to people who don't auto delete their browsing history on every exit.
(IHateSprouts is baking a huge pie shaped like an enormous pie, Thu 4 Oct 2012, 22:26, closed)

True, but if you're using IE and have google as a home page, it opens with the search box having focus, and it's not just a couple of tabs to focus on the address bar. So then you've got all the time and effort involved in moving your hand from the keyboard to the mouse. Of course, you will eventually have to do that anyway, but typing the name in the search box gives you at least an extra second or two of masterful inaction.
( Happy Phantom has been to Hastings, Brighton, and Eastbourne too, Thu 4 Oct 2012, 22:32, closed)

I don't use auto guess in the address bar, as the misses uses the computer too. So I have it set not to look at my history nor bookmarks, for slightly obvious reasons.And people that type the whole URL rather than hit control enter to put in the www and com.
(feedingtimeatthezoo day 1 of his bikini diet started, Thu 4 Oct 2012, 22:45, closed)

I've never used IE. It's Linux at home and Firefox on Windows at work.

(IHateSprouts is baking a huge pie shaped like an enormous pie, Fri 5 Oct 2012, 18:53, closed)

If you are using Chrome
the address bar is also the search bar. Works very nicely. Would you like to see my collection of bus photographs. Buses are much more interesting than most people think. I like Leyland Atlanteans.
(ubergeekian, Fri 5 Oct 2012, 19:22, closed)

You are Chris Donald of Viz fame
AICMFP
( His Popiness the Hole Invaded Poland on, Sun 7 Oct 2012, 18:56, closed)