Comments on: This is Official: I Hate Firefox’s “Awesome” Bar

By: HE

HE — Mon, 28 Jul 2008 00:37:50 +0000

I am a firefox fun from earlier versions 1 and 2. They were simply, small with few basics commands and with a lot of add-ons to personalize. And it all! Is great!
Make more add-ons, add-ins,skins, whatever, only!
Do not try to think for all!
Awesome bar is a restriction of personalization, is like IE.
Who love firefox hate this kind of restrictions.

For people who want control i recomend:
Type in the adress bar about:config
Accept the firefox recommendations, go in.
double click “browser.urlbar.matchOnlyTyped;true”
select true

For people who want remove (cancel) i recomend
sames procedures
select “browser.urlbar.maxRichResults” and select “0″ null as a number

close firefox.

By: branko

branko — Wed, 23 Jul 2008 05:18:21 +0000

For those that want the bar to lool like v2.

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/6227

By: uri

uri — Tue, 08 Jul 2008 13:17:07 +0000

When my mother used my computer to get to her hotmail account yesterday, as soon as she’d typed “HOT”, the first link in the dropdown was this:

Previews/A/April_Flowers/April_Flowers-X-Hottub_Lesbo-
01.jpg

WTF??? I mean, this address bar “improvement” is going to do a lot of damage to relationships etc. Hell, if I was a closeted gay, I could be outed in seconds by this new address bar!

By: Claude Gelinas

Claude Gelinas — Fri, 04 Jul 2008 02:55:23 +0000

As much as I love Firefox 3, I have to agree with you. Using the awesome bar on a slower computer is also quite sluggish (especially compared with Firefox 2.x).

I’d also like to add that I’m not too sure the new bookmarking system has been changed for the best, either.

By: music is great

music is great — Thu, 03 Jul 2008 14:07:46 +0000

I have downgraded to ff2 because the ff3 awesome bar is ghey.

By: Kirk M

Kirk M — Wed, 02 Jul 2008 16:50:22 +0000

For all those folks who think the new Location bar (that’s official name by the way, the dev’s gave it that horrible nickname) isn’t so great, Firefox 3.1 which is due near the end of the year will have the database filters in place so that users should be able to easily configure what kind of results the Location Bar displays. By what I understand, Firefox’s “History” data needs to be incorporated into the “Places” SQLite DB before this can happen and that is scheduled for 3.1. according to the Mozillazine forum threads I’ve read (one of the dev’s posted the info).

Now I’m not only a tech-head and incurable geek, I’m an old(er) tech-head and incurable geek and I actually like the the new Location Bar. But then again, I’m rather strange. :P

By: Dave B

Dave B — Sun, 29 Jun 2008 16:12:13 +0000

Agree the awesome bar is complete rubbish and i am worried about the privacy issues it raises too.

By: Stephen R

Stephen R — Fri, 27 Jun 2008 15:21:58 +0000

Heh. “Our TWO chief weapons are Fear, Surprise, a Fanatical Devotion to… wait, start again….”

By: Stephen R

Stephen R — Fri, 27 Jun 2008 15:17:18 +0000

Two things –

1) It gets better the more you use it. It learns.

2) I like it because you can type a unique part of a URL. I type in “wordpress plugin” and get a bunch of recent pages relating to WordPress plugins — including those that don’t begin with “wordpress”. Why should I have to remember that that page I visited yesterday began with “codex”?

3) You’re a geek. This I understand. Searching based on precise beginning of a URL is tighter control. I’ve been using Firefox since Beta 2, and I _love_ the new bar. It takes a small adjustment, but it just works.

By: ACW

ACW — Fri, 27 Jun 2008 02:48:17 +0000

I agree with Paul.

The people who don’t like the AwesomeBar are the people who haven’t tried to alter their workflow. They’re the same people that bitch and moan how the new thing sucks instead of trying to see how it works, and how they can adapt to it. People did it with the new layout in MS Office, as well. (Including myself.)

Rather, they’d prefer to continue typing a non-unique URL, rather than typing a unique identifier.

When I want AdSense, I just type “ads” [enter]. That’s much faster than typing “google.com/” and scrolling through a bunch of entries for my Google account services.

When I want a particular subforum, I type “Lounge” instead of “episte” and then scrolling through the subforums that I frequent (Mac Achaia, Boardroom, Feedback and suggestions, etc.). All of those start with episteme.[blah]. Why do that when I can type “board” [enter] and get the boardroom? Or “Ach” and get the Achaia? Much faster, much more efficient.

Change your workflow. You’ll like it if you do. And it’s pretty trivial to disable if you still don’t. (I have yet to come across anyone who doesn’t like it once they try to change the way they work instead of trying to shoehorn the old way into the new software.) I hated it the first few days I used it, and I didn’t know it was possible to disable it.

Now I’m glad I didn’t know, because it improves my workflow. I wouldn’t go back to the old way if you paid me.