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- boldfire, on 05/15/2008, -5/+129I find the address bar in Fx3 to be very powerful and intuitive. Hopefully they can build on this more in the future - and hopefully slimline it a little (right now it's a wee bulky)
- Games4Life, on 05/15/2008, -4/+60I've been running on beta 5 for about a month now, Its Awesome!
- Davinator, on 05/15/2008, -3/+53In FF3, it took me a while to get used to typing in any part of the address and/or page name to bring up a webpage. Now that I've used that while, I find it very difficult to go back to the old method used in FF2, IE, etc...
- ISmokesDaPot420, on 05/15/2008, -3/+35Lots of proposals sound good.. but end up annoying. Although in the hands of Mozilla Devs, I'm hopeful.
- Qong, on 05/15/2008, -6/+36That looks and sounds really good. I haven't tried Firefox 3 yet, or really read anything about it, so it was all news to me. That sounds really helpful though, I can't wait to use it.
- inactive, on 05/15/2008, -4/+26The Awesome Bar is in fact, awesome. It's a feature that I quickly found myself dependent on - I had to switch to FF2 for something at work, and noticed that my address bar had suddenly turned into a Lame Bar.
I immediately dropped what I was doing and went back to FF3. Awesome Bar is great. - Unclekoolaid, on 05/15/2008, -5/+24Dear Digg, Please stop showing the True animated ads on the front page, it makes me feel awkward while browsing Digg at work.
- verevi, on 05/15/2008, -1/+18That's how it works now... in the current release 2.0 release.
- schmiggyjk, on 05/15/2008, -0/+14Exactly. I don't want my searches just being googled. I use the hell out of the search bar, and I have 20+ custom search engines installed, from pricegrabber, froogle, amazon, piratebay, youtube, digg, etc.
I won't be ditching the search bar anytime soon, and hopefully FF doesn't either. - haylel, on 05/15/2008, -0/+13Yes it does. Because of it working, I have no idea what these guys are talking about.
- inactive, on 05/15/2008, -1/+14uh, you do realize that there are more search options than just google right?
- theaceoffire, on 05/15/2008, -2/+15You should try keywords.
Every time I type "goog something" it searches google, "torr something" it searches pirate bay, "tube something" it searches youtube... I got like 30 or more keywords that let me easily search without needing a mouse to select a different search engine. - altf4me, on 05/15/2008, -0/+11I've been loving the new address bar for a while now. It makes it much easier for me to check all my favourite sites as I don't bookmark them on my work laptop.
- telepheedian, on 05/15/2008, -1/+10You should try it again, the current beta is really awesome.
- craighamnett, on 05/15/2008, -0/+9Exact same problem I have now, when on 2 I always start typing "reader" for Google Reader, and nothing shows up, then I realise I have to type "google" before scrolling down the list of google pages I visit to get to my reader. I fell in love with 3 a long time ago! :)
- PaddyTheChump, on 05/15/2008, -3/+12I'm not sure if I'll like this. What about those... err... personal websites?
- dood, on 05/15/2008, -9/+18I found the awesome bar to be most unusable. It's enormous, and unwieldy. The algorithm it uses to call up historical links is awkward (but I could probably get used to it with time).
I use the "oldbar" plugin for Firefox 3. It makes the drop-down menu an acceptable size. It leaves the new search algorithm in place, though. - Kronos6948, on 05/15/2008, -2/+10Does ABP work with FF3? If so, you don't have to worry about those ads.
- ePuck, on 05/15/2008, -1/+9Firefox 3 beta 5 works. Address bar has saved me many of my precious minutes.
- KaiUno, on 05/15/2008, -2/+10Would've switched to FF3 beta completely by now if only Google would get off its arse and update Google Sync.
- darkecho, on 05/15/2008, -4/+12I found the FF3 address bar hideous. Mostly because it takes up two lines. However, adding the "oldbar" extensions allows you to have it look like the address bar in FF2 and most common browsers but still keep the functionality of FF3.
- dksupremacy, on 05/15/2008, -1/+9especially if you search for a lot of porn
- joshuabowers, on 05/16/2008, -1/+9You don't need a mouse to select a different engine, though: in Windows (I assume the same holds true with a different combination on Macs) Ctrl-K switches you to the search bar, and then Ctrl-Up and Ctrl-Down switch the current engine.
- inactive, on 05/15/2008, -0/+7I like that Webware brought up the possible economic consequences of feature progression.
- theaceoffire, on 05/15/2008, -1/+8You can type about:config and change "browser.urlbar.maxRichResults" to 0.
- kendawg, on 05/15/2008, -2/+9If you just want to use it to type in an address, go ahead. If you just want to see the drop-down list of recently typed addresses, go ahead. You don't need to turn it off.
- Lazydriver, on 05/15/2008, -0/+7Control-Shift-Delete is your best friend.
Alternatively, menu Tools, button "Clear Private Data".
CSD's better for those OMG PEOPLE ARE HOME moments.
(Enjoy your private sites!) - Newedge14, on 05/15/2008, -1/+7Been running this for a while.. the awesome bar is pretty useful, I especially like how pretty much thats all I need anymore along with my back and forward buttons
- iKomplex, on 05/15/2008, -0/+6Simple fix: try discerning the pages by supplying the fragments of their url (domain name, directory path, etc.) that makes them unique from one another. If you cannot be bothered with this approach, then just select the site you want from the list that is generated after entering the title.
I have been using the awesome bar for a while now, and it's been nothing short of amazing. I hope regular expression search will be implemented in a future release of the browser. - Lewiji, on 05/16/2008, -0/+5One thing they didn't mention in the article is the tag searching in the address bar, and one click bookmarks. You can click the star on the right to bookmark a page, then click it again to add tags. I can tag a load of articles with, say, PHP and Javascript, type those 2 words in, and find all my articles involving the 2 instantly. Nice.
- inactive, on 05/16/2008, -0/+5I'm using FF3b5 and I can tell you that the "awesome bar" is awesome. Is the feature that I've used the most in FF3. You can find almost any lost link that you can think of, you just have to remember what it was about and write it on the "awesome bar", more than likely you will find your lost link on the list.
- inactive, on 05/15/2008, -1/+6Yeah, I've already experienced some awkward situations with that, myself.
- theaceoffire, on 05/15/2008, -0/+5There is an option in about:config to change the number of results (browser.urlbar.maxRichResults)
- UnterDenLinden, on 05/15/2008, -11/+16I think they should just do away with the search bar and combine it with the address bar like they were saying. When you type a non-url that doesn't match anything in your history, it just Googles it.
- Abjure, on 05/15/2008, -0/+5Might I recommend you turn on the Stealther extension when you browse those "personal websites"? I've been using this extension for quite some time now and it does exactly what you'd expect. I believe Safari has this functionality built in if I recall correctly..
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/130 ... - msflower97, on 05/15/2008, -2/+7As long as there's a workaround for people who don't like it, it looks great to me (I only read the article, haven't tried it). Learning new things is not always a bad thing...sometimes a feature you hate at first will really grow on you with time.
- str1fe, on 05/16/2008, -1/+6Lots of people dislike the new rich results on Firefox's menu bar, as some type only the first letter of a URL expecting just (for example) digg.com to come up and not every web page that contains a D in the url or title. There is an off-switch, you just have to poke around to turn it off.
1) Type about:config in the address bar, tell FF you'll be careful if prompted.
2) Right click on the config, go to New > Boolean
3) Type " browser.urlbar.richResults " in the box that pops up.
4) Set the value to "false"
5) Restart Firefox.
Voila. You now have the old-school address bar back. I'm not sure why you're getting buried geekchic, I thought it was common knowledge that not everyone likes the new address bar. Oh well, there's your fix! - anaesthetica, on 05/16/2008, -1/+5Yeah, the Mozilla response was just as awesome as the "awesomebar":
"The Mozilla execs expressed no interest in making money from that position--'We hadn't thought of it,' Schroepfer said"
Such an unbelievable breath of fresh air. And, it's comforting to know that Mozilla is really staying true to its #1 priority: making web surfing easy for users.
A lot of people speculate about the possible leverage that Google might have over Mozilla because of the perceived dependency Mozilla has on Google as principal revenue source. This kind of press is a good refutation of that anxiety, and a confirmation that Mozilla is remains on the right track.
Kudos to the guys at Mozilla for putting users ahead of profit. - walkerj, on 05/16/2008, -2/+6Isn't this kind of thing the antithesis of what Firefox was originally meant to be? Mozilla became huge and unwieldy with all its built-in features, so they stripped it back to the simplest usable kernel of a browser and made it easily extendable so that people could add the functionality they wanted. Firefox was originally the Emacs of browsers-- a platform on which to run your own extensions. It looks like Firefox 3 is destroying that, with the addition of the new address bar. This trend possibly started with Firefox 2 and the built-in spell checker. No matter how good these functions are, shouldn't anything beyond the basic functionality be an extension?
- yahoofrom, on 05/16/2008, -0/+4Solution : different profile for err.. personal websites.
- abood, on 05/15/2008, -2/+6love the new bar...it's basically spotlight-esque in its function
- toxicityj, on 05/15/2008, -0/+4How is a potentially unstable beta's crashes the fault of the OS? that's what betas do...
- Kronos6948, on 05/15/2008, -1/+5I have the most recent firefox release, and I haven't had a problem with it. If you're talking about FF3, then you have to remember it's still in Beta.
- TheThirdLevel, on 05/15/2008, -1/+5Currently, the extension is in beta and only works with Firefox 1.5 and Firefox 2, not Firefox 3.
- cwgannon, on 05/15/2008, -1/+5WTF. Did your great-grandfather believe planes would be useless, too, since we already had ships and automobiles?
But seriously. I read tons of things at JSOnline.com, but I can't be bothered to type in jsonline.com and scroll through the list of pages I've read to find a story I read a couple weeks ago, especially when the address of the page is generic and appended with a story ID. What I can do now, though, is type in word I remember to have been in the headline (the page's title), and there you have it. No ***** around to do something that should be pretty simple to begin with.
I guess I see your point, though, in saying that only the "IM generation" would benefit from something like this. Maybe you should stick to your guns and use only the command line for your computing needs.
Or maybe you should realize that being a prick isn't the best way to go. - HenrikG, on 05/16/2008, -1/+5I have actually been using Firefox 3 Beta for a while. I really like how it auto completes. Not only that, I noticed that even when I start typing www (even though now I really don't have to) it still jumps to the website I was thinking about when I typed www. Must be cause it's the only one I actually type www for. LOL
GG Firefox. It's like the Google of browsers. :P - praveenmarkandu, on 05/16/2008, -0/+4just keep doing it. after less than a few days it will list digg.com as the first item
- mattus, on 05/15/2008, -0/+4LOL. We're talking about sometime which is BUILT IN to FF3 - that is - doesn't require an add-on. And Maxthon? Don't make me laugh. It's just a front-end for IE, and brings all its security and rendering issues with it.
- serend, on 05/15/2008, -1/+5your insane. because something runs in Linux doesn't make it linux. if this were true what the hell would firefox really be? linmacdoesbsdaris?
- Nysul, on 05/16/2008, -0/+4The awesome bar is awesome for tablet PCs
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