To aid users in finding frequently used URLs, Firefox 3 has its Awesome Bar, which displays a drop down menu of recent Web pages culled from your browser history file. IE 8 has something similar. Type in any URL and IE 8 matches it to any URLs in your browser history file. One key difference with Firefox is that within IE 8 you can delete individual items from your history. That way co-workers can't see what you've typed before. Also it allows you to simply eliminate mistyped URLs.
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Yes, on the one hand it is great to see M$ adding comparable functionality to its browser.
But on the other hand, you have to ask yourself, if it is right or good to reward such plagiarism.
You'll remember that Netscape was virtually wiped out financially, by M$ copying the functionality of Netscape, and offering the equivalent M$ IE product for free (the first browser war).
Then the competition watchpuppies of the US and EU had problems with M$' plan to 'tightly bundle' the browser within the OS offering to prevent other 'upstarts'.... Plus the Halloween Documents (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Halloween_Documents
) made it clear that standards subversion was the intent.
So you are left with the philosophical choice of supporting these practices, or supporting the newer Open Source competition (eg Firefox) to keep browsing of the web an open-standards environment... With good support for Open Source and standards, browsers can be tested for standards-compliance, and developers will never again be forced to 'customise' a web site for a particular intended browser... or be duped into utilising proprietary protocols.