Comments on: CyberNotes: Understanding & Tweaking the Firefox 3 Address Bar

By: Lappy

Lappy — Wed, 30 Jul 2008 20:45:22 +0000

Many of the concerns brought up here seem to be addressed by the upcoming new version of Firefox, version 3.1. For details see [cybernetnews.com]

By: Ryan

Ryan — Tue, 29 Jul 2008 20:59:16 +0000

The Guru wrote:

I’ve tried to removing bookmark option as well as match only typed options, but still getting bookmarks when I start typing in addresses. I’ve cleared cache and restarted as well.

Have you tried the Hide Unvisited add-on?

By: The Guru

The Guru — Mon, 28 Jul 2008 23:50:50 +0000

I’ve tried to removing bookmark option as well as match only typed options, but still getting bookmarks when I start typing in addresses. I’ve cleared cache and restarted as well.

By: Change

Change — Sat, 26 Jul 2008 18:31:50 +0000

Agreed with Lappy! Good that this is adjustable. Quite a few people don’t like the Awesomebar it seems (though maybe they just have to get used to it first, like you Ryan).

By: Phil

Phil — Thu, 24 Jul 2008 07:43:20 +0000

user wrote:

“navigate to browser.urlbar.matchOnlyTyped, and change the value to true. Now the address bar will behave just like it did in Firefox 2 where it only searches those addresses you’ve typed into it.” “match urls only” (default for 2) is quite different from “match typed urls only” ( what you get from toggling this pref to true, also this pref is in 2 as well, not something new in 3 ) the latter does NOT include the links you clicked, i.e., visited but not from direct input (type or paste) to urlbar

The (only) reason I hate the "awesome bar" is "match urls only" is not available. Getting a load of matching titles and having to scroll to the url entry is a pain.

By: user

user — Thu, 24 Jul 2008 04:13:34 +0000

“navigate to browser.urlbar.matchOnlyTyped, and change the value to true. Now the address bar will behave just like it did in Firefox 2 where it only searches those addresses you’ve typed into it.”

“match urls only” (default for 2) is quite different from “match typed urls only” ( what you get from toggling this pref to true, also this pref is in 2 as well, not something new in 3 )

the latter does NOT include the links you clicked, i.e., visited but not from direct input (type or paste) to urlbar

By: Ryan

Ryan — Wed, 23 Jul 2008 23:29:55 +0000

yogi22 wrote:

You wrote:
“For example, I’ve read stories by several people saying that they don’t want results from their history showing up in the address bar because of questionable sites that they visit.”

My solution is to set up a new profile.

True, but a lot of people don’t want to hassle with switching between multiple profiles.

Lappy wrote:

I think the two most powerful (and also simplest) things a user can do are successfully highlighted in this post: 1) adding CyberSearch, and 2) adding the mentioned Stylish style, in order to quickly and easily distinguish the different types of results. Great job!

Yay for our extension!

By: Lappy

Lappy — Wed, 23 Jul 2008 14:29:01 +0000

I think the two most powerful (and also simplest) things a user can do are successfully highlighted in this post: 1) adding CyberSearch, and 2) adding the mentioned Stylish style, in order to quickly and easily distinguish the different types of results. Great job!

Those two things alone make the AwesomeBar truly awesome!

By: yogi22

yogi22 — Wed, 23 Jul 2008 13:52:52 +0000

You wrote:
“For example, I’ve read stories by several people saying that they don’t want results from their history showing up in the address bar because of questionable sites that they visit.”

My solution is to set up a new profile.

Call it something innocuous like “Test Browser”, and put an icon for it on the desktop. (”C:\Program Files\Mozilla Firefox\firefox.exe” -P Test Browser”).

Open this version of FF, then;
Tools > Options > Privacy > Settings:
Check off all items, click OK
Check off “Always clear my private data when I exit Firefox”, click OK.
kk