I do, but I suppose I'm included in that rounding error.
(It drives everyone else who's used my laptop for anything crazy - typing something in the address bar only searches my history / bookmarks, no remote communication. If you want to search, use the search bar.)
Though, that being said, I find myself only rarely typing ULs. More of the time the browser is pulling the URL from bookmarks / history.
I have firefox configured to search just my history and even that gets cripplingly slow. I'm incessantly frustrated by the preposterous need for resources of web browsers.
(It drives everyone else who's used my laptop for anything crazy - typing something in the address bar only searches my history / bookmarks, no remote communication. If you want to search, use the search bar.)
Though, that being said, I find myself only rarely typing ULs. More of the time the browser is pulling the URL from bookmarks / history.