Enhanced Address Bar (a.k.a. Awesome Bar) – Stolen from Opera
Simplified Bookmarking – Stolen from Opera
Smart Bookmarks (most visited) – Stolen from Opera (Top 10)
Full Page Zoom – Stolen from Opera

1. Developed at the same time.
2. Where has Opera the single click bookmarking UI? Oh wait, there isn’t.
3. Don’t know
4. True, Opera had this first. Guess that makes it stolen then.

Plain wrong. The APNG proposal comes from two Firefox developers.

Get your act together and stop being a fanboy. You are just hurting the image of Opera. Btw, I use Fx 3 as my primary browser, but I also think Opera 9.5 is just fine.

I’ve just entered “cyb” in Op adr.Bar, and a plenty of Cybernet entries and levels were proposed, with others. Why would you want to put “cyb news”, Ryan?

I’m not Ryan but you probably meant to respond to me. In this case, you remember that the site was called “cybernetnews”. Imagine that you visited this site as a new user, and a few days later you think “hmm, what was that site with ‘news’ in it again?” and you type “news”. If you visit a lot of news sites, you’ll likely get tons of results. So you remember “ah yeah, it had something with ‘cyb’ in there too”, so you type ‘news cyb’.

You get the exact result in Fx3, but in Opera you’re forced to search Google. This is more useful with sites without such a distinctive name as Cybernetnews of course, that was a very simple example. What’s important is that Fx’s interpretation of the “query” in the location bar is smarter, thus returning better/more results.

a.k.a Awesomely Stupid Bar. What is the point showing the “name” of the bar and the address? You never need that and it looks like a mess. When you are typing an address you know damn well what site it is referring to even if those names arent the same. Also it does not put the plain address top of the list. I mean if I write “cybern” to the address bar the list is as follows?

[cybernetnews.com]
[cybernetnews.com]
[cybernetnews.com]

Even IE can always put that [cybernetnews.com] to the top of the list because that is the most used one no matter what is the last visited.

It will learn what pages you visit the most, and put those toward the top. So if you visit our homepage more then it will start placing that as the first result. It also looks at whether a particular page is bookmarked and give more weight to those.

What is the point showing the “name” of the bar and the address?

Do you mean the bookmark name? I generally put a lot more info in the bookmark name (and tags) than the URL contains. By also showing and searching for the name, it can return a lot more results that might apply to what you’re looking for. I find that these days I hardly type in the address anymore, just the name or type of thing I am looking for. I love that option.

Yeah, true, that annoys me too. It should put more emphasis on the top level/directories (and not pages).

By the way – for you Opera users, in Opera I wouldn’t be able to search for “cyb news” and get a result. In Firefox I will, so I think Firefox didn’t just copy, but also improved and thus innovated slightly. You should applaud Firefox for taking it mainstream. Besides, I’d see this as a huge compliment towards Opera.

I see it this way, If firefox took more of the sharemarket from Microsoft its good for Opera and other web browsers. Take parts of europe Firefox owns 28% of market already

a.k.a Awesomely Stupid Bar. What is the point showing the “name” of the bar and the address? You never need that and it looks like a mess. When you are typing an address you know damn well what site it is referring to even if those names arent the same. Also it does not put the plain address top of the list. I mean if I write “cybern” to the address bar the list is as follows?

[cybernetnews.com]
[cybernetnews.com]
[cybernetnews.com]

Even IE can always put that [cybernetnews.com] to the top of the list because that is the most used one no matter what is the last visited.