Been playing around again with IE9 & Chrome,& realised how limited my use of the 'Net has been recently!
I usually open IE,which brings up my Home Page,then I either go to this forum,or others using Favorites.
Searching,I go to Google,so it is a while since I'd just entered an URL in the Address Bar.
This time,when I did so,up came Bing's Search page,with the required site,plus a lot of other crud I didn't want.
Interesting!-----So I went to Chrome,which did the same thing,but with Google's Search page instead.
That's when it clicked!---What freaked me out before about Chrome was this behaviour!
But why didn't IE9 freak me out,too?
The only thing I can think is that it had the "Search from Address Bar" function turned off,& somewhere down the line I had reactivated it.
The Internet is full of crud from IE shills saying what a wonderful thing this function is!
On the other hand,there are many people who hate it,& ask how to remove it.
At least you can turn it off with IE9,but you can't with Chrome!
If your usage pattern is like mine,it will probably only annoy you if you have entered a known URL.
Businesses publish their URLs so that you can find them--why should they bother,if you still end up on a Search Engine?