Comments on: Firefox 3 location bar just became almighty

By: FLEURY

FLEURY — Thu, 11 Feb 2010 17:54:43 +0000

Merci de bien vouloir me télécharger une version en Français.

By: Matt

Matt — Wed, 14 Oct 2009 00:52:24 +0000

I found this thread searching for “location bar not working firefox” so if anyone finds out that their location bar is not working in Firefox, take a look at the problem and the solution here http://annoyances-resolved.blogspot.com/2009/10/address-bar-not-working-in-firefox-on.html

By: Krishan

Krishan — Tue, 16 Jun 2009 06:56:49 +0000

Hi,

Install this add-on if you like FF3 but prefer the old address bar in FF2.
Old Location Bar 1.6:

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/7637

Its great, especially if you despise the “Awesome Bar”. Anyway hope this helps.

By: Abhijit

Abhijit — Wed, 27 May 2009 15:19:10 +0000

@ Ethan
90% of humans find it irritating.
was a very stupid Idea, or at lease they should have given the option to bring back FF2 bar back.
Now every one is stuck with FF2.
FF3 is worse than IE, so every one will eventually throw away FF thing and go for other browsers.
That will be the end of Firefox !

By: Ethan

Ethan — Tue, 26 May 2009 14:46:58 +0000

I will continue to use FF2 or switch to another browser rather than using FF3+ with an ‘awesome bar’.

It completely ruins the way I use my browser; E.g. for programming work I often need to switch between a development and a production environment which usually is a small change in the url. I need to type much more to get the correct url, while FF2 almost immediately filters the list down to 3 items or so.

For some people this might be very handy, but why, why, WHY do I need to use about:config and the help of an add-on to _somewhat_ disable this… could we please get an ‘use Awesome location bar’ yes/no checkbox in the FF options? I don’t want to switch to Chrome, Opera or IE8

By: venusvegasvada

venusvegasvada — Sun, 24 May 2009 12:48:16 +0000

I think the “awesome bar” sucks. I hate it. I don’t use Firefox anymore because of it.

By: struppi

struppi — Mon, 18 May 2009 09:55:05 +0000

this feature is useless and dumb. the people which used the oldbar behavior are getting crazy about the stupid results in the list and most others don’t even look at this list, not in Fx2 not now

By: tormentas

tormentas — Thu, 23 Apr 2009 19:27:22 +0000

I can’t switch off the “awesome bar”, I can’t stand it! Firefox is the best, why did they do that?

By: Nostawyn

Nostawyn — Mon, 20 Apr 2009 20:22:51 +0000

I switched back to Firefox 2 almost immediately because, although you can tweak what the “awesome” bar does, I couldn’t get it to fix the bizarre order it puts things in. I prefer knowing exactly what’s going to pop up when I hit “w” because it saves time.

By: Tom

Tom — Mon, 13 Apr 2009 04:53:02 +0000

Frelling hate this p.o.s. bar.

By: cocciastella

cocciastella — Wed, 25 Mar 2009 00:04:18 +0000

does anyone know how to stop all the junk in the History bar. I changed my setting and it created 5 lines detailing every selection in the change. This piece of software is so bad, maybe not bad but stupid.

By: Botski

Botski — Wed, 28 Jan 2009 18:59:46 +0000

What is so “awesome” about having crap in the awesomebar pulldown menu even after you clear your history? Once a program starts thinking it knows better than me what I want, that program gets replaced by another one.

By: Trejkaz

Trejkaz — Sun, 18 Jan 2009 04:54:32 +0000

“Thatâ€™s your computer”

Nope, it doesn’t freeze my whole computer. Only firefox freezes while the other apps are working fine. I just have to drum my fingers for a couple of minutes until it gets un-stuck, and can then use it again.

By: Colin Brown

Colin Brown — Sat, 17 Jan 2009 12:12:35 +0000

Using Firefox 3 is akin to sliding down razor blades with the laughably named ‘Amwesome Bar’

By: Link48010

Link48010 — Sat, 17 Jan 2009 05:50:54 +0000

“and it also doesnâ€™t randomly freeze for 2 minutes for no reason.”

That’s your computer, if I can use a portable version without this problem (which I do).

By: Trejkaz

Trejkaz — Sat, 17 Jan 2009 05:28:12 +0000

……..lolwut.

(1) How could Google purposely make Firefox suck?
(2) In many ways Chrome is already better anyway. At least it doesn’t have the awesomebar, and it also doesn’t randomly freeze for 2 minutes for no reason.

By: A user

A user — Wed, 14 Jan 2009 18:48:42 +0000

Maybe the problem is that somewhere ‘hidden’ in the bookmarks is something that should not come up for a reason. Typing in the bar brings it up and makes it visible were it should not be.
The only way around so far is not using the bookmarks, bad idea.

Forcing people to ignore it is really a stupid reply and plays into the hands of the ones comparing firefox with microsoft. It like you neighbor telling you to ignore his party if it disturbs you…

By: Yuirorkis Gamboa

Yuirorkis Gamboa — Sat, 10 Jan 2009 17:57:21 +0000

Man, I put off upgrading to FF3 until they stopped supporting security on FF2. Now that I have to use this crap everyday I am done with using firefox. I will use IE or maybe Opera. Maybe Google is purposely making FF suck so everyone uses Chrome? Either way I am done with FF. It was cool back in the day when the Linux kernel was like 2.2 and 2.4 but it seems like FF isn’t trying to be better at usability it just seems like Yet Another Browser. Total Garbage.

By: Russell

Russell — Wed, 07 Jan 2009 16:21:08 +0000

Piece of crap. Spent 30 minutes looking for ways to turn it off. Too much clutter. I mean how freaking hard is it to type a whole URL address? The folks at mozilla are starting to act like the fools at Microsoft thinking they know what’s best for us. At least make it easier to turn these features off if we don’t want them.

Easy fix: http://www.pcmech.com/article/firefox-3-disable-the-smart-location-bar-sort-of/

By: JbRd

JbRd — Sat, 03 Jan 2009 02:01:17 +0000

just updated to ff3 GET RID OF THE AWESOME BAR!

By: Howie

Howie — Thu, 11 Dec 2008 14:04:47 +0000

Tried FF3 and uninstalled it within 30 minutes upgrading back to FF2. On the 3 machines I use regularly I’ve told the annoying FF3 “upgrade” window I’ll never upgrade/install. Actually, I *might* consider it *IF* the “Awesome” (awful) Bar is changed to allow it to be completely disabled and work like FF2 *without* having to install an extension!

By: Lucy

Lucy — Wed, 26 Nov 2008 13:23:00 +0000

Tried it an rolled back to FF2 the same day.

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Probando chrome | Wallpapers gratis, Fondos Gratis — Wed, 19 Nov 2008 21:56:26 +0000

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By: abhi

abhi — Sun, 16 Nov 2008 11:08:57 +0000

Yes, Very stupid Address bar.
I reinstalled FF2.
I don’t know why FF3 has a very good rating on all websites, FF3 is just not usable with that address bar.
Internet Explorer is a lot better than FF3.
I hope the developers open their eyes soon, and bring the good old Address bar back.
The new Address bar is extremely Irritating.

By: Joe

Joe — Mon, 27 Oct 2008 16:23:42 +0000

An EULA…. A “great” new feature that can’t easily be turned off…. browser bloat…. Firefox is so over.