diff --git a/main.js b/main.js
index 7dd66878..8b84f959 100644
--- a/main.js
+++ b/main.js
@@ -2506,11 +2506,6 @@ function zoomSet(t, percent) {
 }
 ipcMain.handle("zoom-step", (_e, dir) => zoomStep(activeTab(), Number(dir) > 0 ? 1 : -1));
 ipcMain.handle("zoom-reset", () => zoomSet(activeTab(), 100));
-// Pull the tab's real URL from webContents after Electron navigates, so in-page
-// clicks (subpages of a BCNR site, subdomain hops, cross-origin redirects) update
-// the address bar. Without this, t.url is only refreshed on programmatic loads —
-// navigateTab / the collision switcher — and everything else sticks on the parent.
-// Internal bns:// → https:// for display, matching navigateTab's convention that
 
 // ---- HTTP authentication (401 / 407 challenges) ----
 // Without a `login` listener Electron cancels every challenge, so a site
@@ -2575,6 +2570,11 @@ app.on("login", (event, _wc, details, authInfo, callback) => {
   }
   p.then((c) => { if (c) callback(c.username, c.password); else callback(); }, () => callback());
 });
+// Pull the tab's real URL from webContents after Electron navigates, so in-page
+// clicks (subpages of a BCNR site, subdomain hops, cross-origin redirects) update
+// the address bar. Without this, t.url is only refreshed on programmatic loads —
+// navigateTab / the collision switcher — and everything else sticks on the parent.
+// Internal bns:// → https:// for display, matching navigateTab's convention that
 // https:// is what the user sees regardless of how the bytes were fetched.
 function refreshTabUrl(tab) {
   if (!tab || tab.prov?.kind === "home") return; // home is loadFile → file://; leave t.url = ""
@@ -2985,14 +2985,14 @@ async function navigateTab(id, input) {
   const t = tabById(id); if (!t) return;
   let q = String(input).trim();
   if (!q) return;
+  // Local paths open as files — never BCNR, never a search.
+  const fileUrl = localFileUrl(q);
+  if (fileUrl) return loadLocalFile(t, id, fileUrl);
   // Address bar doubles as a search box: anything that isn't a URL/hostname
   // (a bare word, or a phrase with spaces) becomes a web search.
   if (!looksLikeUrl(q)) q = SEARCH(q);
   const raw = q.replace(/^[a-z]+:\/\//i, "");
   const host = raw.split("/")[0].toLowerCase();
-  // Local paths open as files — never BCNR, never a search.
-  const fileUrl = localFileUrl(q);
-  if (fileUrl) return loadLocalFile(t, id, fileUrl);
   const rest = raw.slice(host.length) || "/";
   // Reflect the target URL immediately so the address bar doesn't keep
   // showing the previous page's URL for the whole load duration. Without
@@ -3019,11 +3019,6 @@ async function navigateTab(id, input) {
   emitTabs();
 }
 
-// Load a name from BCNR into a tab. Called for every dotted host — BCNR is
-// tried first; on NXDOMAIN or resolver failure we always fall through to the
-// clearnet (https://<host><rest>) so the user isn't stranded when the chain
-// is down or the name isn't registered.
-async function loadBns(t, id, host, rest, tld) {
 // Open a local file (file:// URL) in a tab. A missing file surfaces through
 // did-fail-load → loadErrorPage like any other failed navigation.
 async function loadLocalFile(t, id, fileUrl) {
@@ -3039,6 +3034,11 @@ async function loadLocalFile(t, id, fileUrl) {
   catch (e) { console.warn("local file load failed:", e?.message); }
 }
 
+// Load a name from BCNR into a tab. Called for every dotted host — BCNR is
+// tried first; on NXDOMAIN or resolver failure we always fall through to the
+// clearnet (https://<host><rest>) so the user isn't stranded when the chain
+// is down or the name isn't registered.
+async function loadBns(t, id, host, rest, tld) {
   const registry = registryOf(tld);
   if (id === activeId) pushNav({ host, kind: "resolving", tld, registry });
   const fallbackToWeb = async (reason) => {