How do I disable or work around search shortcuts in the search bar?
I suspect what I'm about to describe is intended behavior and I'm just doing things Wrong.
Sometimes I want to specify a search engine; sometimes I don't. This is awkward when my search terms include the shortcut for an engine for some reason (it happens to me more often than you'd think). To date, I've handled that case by using the address bar (ctrl-l by default) when I want to do an engine-specific search, and the search bar (ctrl-k by default) when I want to explicitly prevent that, because the search bar doesn't support search shortcuts.
Search shortcut support appears to have been added to the most recent update I received (149.0), breaking this flow (and incidentally breaking muscle memory for tabbing from one bar to the other, but that's less annoying). I could add a common prefix (presumably a symbol key) to all my search shortcuts to get similar behavior, but I'm fairly attached to the home row; every bucky bit is a small but noticeable pain on my wrists.
I'd like to know how to disable search shortcuts only in one bar or the other (I don't care which); or, alternately, a better way to achieve the same goal. At present my next-best-alternative is to train myself to *always* use an explicit search shortcut...which I can live with if necessary, but it's not ideal.