After using Chrome for just a few weeks I have already become accustom to the great address bar functionality it provides. With just one address bar where you can type addresses, searches, without thinking about it is a great thing. Now I am using Firefox 3.5 again I started searching for ways to duplicate the functionality and found something a little disturbing.

It seems that Google has already patented that functionality, and I am not sure how I feel about that.

First I hate patents on basic