Firefox 3 location bar just became almighty
Or at least as mighty as it will get for final release.
So far, the most useful new feature I’ve found in Firefox 3 is the much improved location bar autocomplete that unlike Firefox 2 which only looked for web addresses in my history, this one looks on visited and bookmarked page titles and tags along with web addresses.
As expected, two more features have been added and will be available for Beta 2. The autocomplete list now shows page titles and addresses in two different lines and colors. According to studies on human cognition, it is easier for us to isolate elements on an image based on different coloring than any other attribute.
So, if the user knows she is entering part of a web address or a page title it will be easier for her to find what she’s looking for. Highlighting the match result also helps to direct the user’s attention.
You may also notice that the Go button is overlaid on the location bar replacing the star button because the focus is on the location bar right now, so it is possible that the user may want to click on it. This is part of the working Firefox 3 visual refresh.
The round right cap is also gone, but I think this is temporary and in preparation for the new themes landing.
I have to mention that I don’t recall reading and hearing so much about usability and usability experimentation in previous Firefox releases development as in Firefox 3’s. It could just be me but I’d bet the change is really in the approach and the design process and I like it.
November 30th, 2007 at 12:20 pm
Love it every minute. I would like that they made available the Mac skin for Windows Vista users as well.
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November 30th, 2007 at 1:20 pm
I just tried out the nightly build. This is snappy and so useful. It’s hard to want to go back to FF2 after using it.
http://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/mozilla.org/firefox/nightly/latest-trunk/
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November 30th, 2007 at 1:44 pm
Percy, I think you’re right about the focus on usability this time around. I’m seeing it too and I attribute a lot of it to Mike Beltzner and his team. They’re kicking a lot of butt.
- A
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November 30th, 2007 at 2:02 pm
I noticed this feature in the betas of Kestrel and liked it; I’m glad Firefox is going to get it too.
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November 30th, 2007 at 7:23 pm
I much prefer the Firefox 2 location bar (perhaps with the extra functionality mentioned above). I hope at least the fonts are customizable, because the way it looks in this screenshot, it’s just unreadable.
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November 30th, 2007 at 9:09 pm
very good….but where has the star gone to???
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November 30th, 2007 at 9:53 pm
^^^funny how opera got to it first
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December 1st, 2007 at 12:42 am
“the most useful new feature” is actually most painful for me, i’m used to “only looked for web addresses in my history”, e.g. when i input “ad” i expect to see urls like https://addons.mozilla.org/…. since they are the only ones (IN MY HISTORY) that match, but now any page titles that contain “ad” such as add/address/… match too, same goes for “im” when i expect to see http://www.imdb.com/... but instead i also got matches that have import/important/… in titles. And many other examples.
I understand it can be useful for some that titles are included as well. But FOR ME all these EXTRA matches are useless and make it very hard to find the ones i’m looking for.
IMO, features like this better not be just forced without any options but more flexible. For example, make it a couple of check boxes so user could choose which one(s) among url/title/tag/whatever to match.
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December 1st, 2007 at 9:29 pm
Looks like you can turn off the new features by changing browser.urlbar.matchOnlyTyped to true in about:config…
For some reason the latest nightly build on my machine doesn’t have the new “almighty bar.” The results look the same as last week’s builds. Has it not made it into the Linux builds yet or do I have some kind of problem with my installation?
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December 2nd, 2007 at 5:52 pm
browser.urlbar.matchOnlyTyped is “match only typed”, it does NOT “exclude titles & others so that only urls will be matched”. There is a new pref that’s related though, but i suspect it probably only put title/url back to one line than totally putting everything back to the old way. I can’t try it right now cause i really don’t like certain features that ff3 is about to change and already had it deleted. Whoever interested, here’s the link: http://kb.mozillazine.org/Browser.urlbar.richResults
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December 2nd, 2007 at 8:21 pm
Switching option “browser.urlbar.richResults” to false in about:config after restart of firefox will turn off this new functionality, well :) i will start using it 5 seconds after grApple theme will provide support for it.
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December 7th, 2007 at 6:48 pm
Greeaaatttt, another memory hungry feature. As if FF doesn’t suck the life out of your computer already. Now you add something that’s going to use more memory? Wow! How about fixing the massive memory leak (yes, I tested the beta, memory use not as bad but still unacceptable) before you add anymore features?
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December 18th, 2007 at 11:26 pm
It’s really almighty, but I think it’s a little ugly. The font and icon is too big to make it offensive.
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December 19th, 2007 at 5:58 am
It is very annoying that the new locationbar also searches through query strings in the history. Especially with links containing ID/SessionID params it’s annoying if you want to enter an ip address.
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December 19th, 2007 at 6:36 am
Please:
1. Change the fonts and the colors; make the URLs bigger and the titles smaller.
2. Change the display order so the first matches will the URLs that contain the entered text, then the the URLs with tags that contain the entered text, titles and so on.
3. Make an easy way to turn this off, like an option under Tools/Options.
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December 19th, 2007 at 7:11 am
WHY DONT YOU HAVE A CHINESE TO ENGLISH TRNASLATOR FOR WEB SITES THAT ARE IN CHINESE, I AM AN ENGLISH SPEAKING PERSON
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December 19th, 2007 at 7:49 am
Hi There,
Cool thing, with the new location Bar.
Wouldn’t be an idea to have a little button or something ells for opening a new tap(Like in MS-Explore)much easier with the mouse :O), I specially miss that feature
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December 19th, 2007 at 8:35 am
I think, that this new location bar should be a bit smaller, because when I type new link the bar covers almost halfo of the screen. I believe, the bar should look similar to that one in Opera 9.50.
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December 19th, 2007 at 9:05 am
don’t like new location bar, cuz it’s to big.. need to remake..
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December 19th, 2007 at 10:49 am
Nothing negative to say really, I am sure some of the minor things already mentioned will be looked at. I find everything to be working great, and cannot find anything to really complain about, that is my only complaint…
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December 19th, 2007 at 2:01 pm
Need more time to evaluate
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December 19th, 2007 at 2:47 pm
Yeah!! let me try but dont worry firefox is the best
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December 19th, 2007 at 4:55 pm
I want the go button(the green arrow) back pernamently, or way to do so.
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SulMay 5th, 2008 at 12:52 am
I strongly agree with the permanent go button
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December 19th, 2007 at 5:47 pm
Firefox for life!
I really love the location bar now ;)
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December 19th, 2007 at 7:00 pm
You should have a button to make it easier to open new tabs(like in IE).
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December 19th, 2007 at 8:14 pm
The new location bar dropdown takes up a *lot* of room, but that’s fine provided the first five or so results are actually the ones I’m looking for.
I usually type the first few letters of the domain name, press down once, and press Enter. This seems to work quite well in beta2.
The only weird thing is if the site does a redirect. For instance, I enter theage.com.au, but it redirects to http://www.theage.com.au. In this case, typing theage in the location bar matches theage.com.au first, which is fine (but perhaps not ideal), but it doesn’t have a title or a site icon. Further down the list at position 8, there is an entry for http://www.theage.com.au with a title and a site icon.
It would be nice if these two entries could be merged somehow. In this particular case, I would also be OK if the http://www.theage.com.au entry appeared first.
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December 19th, 2007 at 8:32 pm
I must say that I’m not impressed with the new location bar. I much prefer being able to type in the URL and get what I want. Hopefully there’ll be an option to turn it off or sort the results as you type in a way that matching URLs come first and then matching titles appear after or something like that.
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December 19th, 2007 at 8:44 pm
Like the highlighting look saves time and gives you a choice. Havent run into any problems yet. The nonavailability to add the yahoo toolbar and real player incompability might be a problem for some users.
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December 19th, 2007 at 9:09 pm
at beta state, it feels like the final product. more stable than IE 7.
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December 19th, 2007 at 11:49 pm
The page-title appearing in the location bar dropdown should have a smaller font, so that it can display as many entries as possible in lesser area.
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December 20th, 2007 at 3:09 am
With a wide location bar, the star is too far away from everything else.
My vote is to put it on the left beneath the favicon.
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December 20th, 2007 at 5:11 am
Love the new FF3B2.
Only thing that is slightly ashame is the serious lack of back-compatability for extensions, which made practically every single one of my extensions (except for NoScript) unusable once upgraded to Beta 2.
I understand there are many fundemental changes between FF2 and FF3, but still - One would expect to have some back compatability.
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December 20th, 2007 at 5:15 am
Finally a usability enhancement that’ll really be useful. I typed “game” into the address bar and it found domain.com/game/ - exactly what I was looking for!
Glad to hear about “300 memory leaks fixed” also - even on a 2 Gig quad-core system Firefox chomps through !!
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December 20th, 2007 at 5:27 am
Absolutely horrible!… I try typing “st” to get “stuff.co.nz” in the last beta and ended up typing more… now i may as well go “www.stuff.co.nz” because it’s quicker than all the new BS… not to mention “giz” or “en”gadget…
Not happy
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December 20th, 2007 at 5:39 am
yada yada, make the bookmarks better, they are terrible, wont sort right! i dont care about alphabetically, i want to sort to whats important to me, i want to put folders where i want them.
Hope this browser dont start lagging as bad as last one! I grew a loyalty to your company but when my whole computer would freeze up due to just a browswer… This one is running good so far, to be honest, the only diff i see is the non-lagging and the still bad bookmarks section. All this blow hard about everything else seem self serving and dont matter squat to me. But im just a user… :+)
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December 20th, 2007 at 7:14 am
i like beta 2, but why add on for skin aero vista can’t use in here
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December 20th, 2007 at 9:09 am
I have to say that the idea is ok but the implementation is rubbish, I have to type more letters to get anywhere I want to go compared with the old version.
Maybe if it was the address bar of firefox 2 but with the addresses added underneath.
In firefox 2 you could for example start typing ‘go’ and it would bring up it would bring up anything starting with ‘go’, ie google.co.uk which was in my browsing history. The way it is now it brings up just about anything that has ‘go’ in it which means I have to scroll to find google.co.uk.
If you could put some order back into it so that it actually takes notice of us rather than guessing it would be ok ie, when you type in ‘go’ it starts with the pages like google.co.uk not sites with ‘go’ half way through the title.
Hopefully this will be fixed or atleast have the option to be adjusted back to the way it was in firefox 2 as this could drive users away to something like opera or even ie7 because its not the normal way of working in a browser.
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December 20th, 2007 at 9:45 am
Looks great, awesome job you guys… Love the new location bar. Really looking forward to 3.0 release! Have a virtual hug & an atta-boy!
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December 20th, 2007 at 2:05 pm
superb man ..
best wishes …
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December 20th, 2007 at 4:44 pm
Looks nice.
I reverted to the default layout of the toolbar and the nice auto complete list of the location bar went away (no more 2 lines, no more highlighting).
Probably a hidden setting somewhere?
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December 20th, 2007 at 9:13 pm
THAT DROP-DOWN INTERFERES WITH TYPING URLS!
IT CAUSES A HICCUP WITH EVERY KEYSTROKE ON SLOW COMPUTERS!
PLEASE PROVIDE A WAY TO DISABLE THE STUPID THING.
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December 20th, 2007 at 11:38 pm
You can disable it
http://kb.mozillazine.org/Browser.urlbar.richResults
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December 21st, 2007 at 1:59 am
To tell you the truth I don’t like it that much…
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December 21st, 2007 at 6:50 am
This rocks. Funny: I just told a friend about this new feature, and he said, “Didn’t it already to that?” He confirmed to me that he doesn’t really use extensions.
So kudos for adding a feature that people consider intuitive and useful! =)
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December 21st, 2007 at 9:40 am
This address bar thing SUCKS ASS, how the hell do I turn it off?
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December 21st, 2007 at 12:02 pm
very good update
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December 21st, 2007 at 4:09 pm
I do not like the way I have lost the previous ability to used bookmark folders. You want to add something, fine. But do not take away what I am use to using, please. Now I am stuck.
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December 21st, 2007 at 4:48 pm
Anand, bookmark folders are there. Once you have starred a page, click on the star again to set a custom folder either in the bookmarks menu or the bookmarks toolbar.
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December 21st, 2007 at 9:40 pm
Firefox blows IE out of the water. Love the browser, you guys did wonders and made huge improvements to a the most crucial aspect of being on the internet. If it wasn’t for your innovative ideas IE would have just sat around and stunk up the place by being content with what they had available without any plans to further improve or develop their browser. Funny how they are scrambling to play catch up, and now steal FF’s ideas.
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December 21st, 2007 at 9:54 pm
It’s nifty, but it also seems unnecessarily bulky. I hope there is a setting for the font size in it.
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December 22nd, 2007 at 2:55 am
how the hell do I disable this annoying thing?
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December 22nd, 2007 at 1:09 pm
I didn’t like the new bar drop down in the Beta 2, it’s really cramped up.
The one in the Beta 1 was way better than this.
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December 22nd, 2007 at 3:23 pm
i dont get it.
i type a site in the Location Bar and nothing drops down. =/ it doesnt work and i already have version 3.0b2 installed..
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December 22nd, 2007 at 7:10 pm
The idea is right but the design is awful, it needs much more tweaking and testing before final release.
- The fonts are badly chosen, bigger point size for titles because of what reason? It makes urls less important and sometimes the url is the one you are looking for.
- Why green color for URLs? It should match the default color for links selected by the user (blue by default).
- The favicon next to the title makes each line look badly misaligned, there should be a solution for placing it better.
- The start on the far right when the matching page is in favorites is not visible enough, the start should be in the left. A possible redesign with that star on the left would, be putting the start in the page title line and the favicon in the url line. Also starred pages should look different than normal ones in the list, by different font face (bold) for titles or maybe different background for the starred page line).
- The logic behind the order of the list wont please everybody unless you make it configurable by the user at least to some extent (prefer recent pages, prefer frequently visit pages, match only sites you typed…)
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December 22nd, 2007 at 7:26 pm
Fo those of you (like me) who are having trouble with the speed of the new location bar, here is something you can try to make it a little quicker.
Change this setting in about:config from 25 to a smaller setting. I set mine at 6 and it did two things I liked. First, the responsiveness of the address bar went way up on my iBook G4 1.2Ghz. Second, the scroll bar went away.
browser.urlbar.maxRichResults = 6
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December 22nd, 2007 at 9:46 pm
This is a really cool new addition! Yay! :D
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December 22nd, 2007 at 11:14 pm
opera things again?
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December 23rd, 2007 at 12:20 am
I like the new features, but I really hope the final version will work with all of my plugins. Reinstalling FF2 for now, until it is fully released.
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December 23rd, 2007 at 12:25 pm
I like it! Looks beautiful!
John Pace
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December 23rd, 2007 at 6:50 pm
THE NEW FIREFOX VERSION SUXS ASS.. >__>
I DON’T LIKE THE NEW ADDRESS BAR THINGY. EVERYTIME I TYPE SOMETING, IT FILLS LIKE HALF OF THE PAGE. -_- IS THERE ANYWAY HOW TO DISABLE IT? I THINK THERES NOT GRRR…
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December 24th, 2007 at 12:53 am
i’m concerned about the -dynamic go- button myself. please review the experience i recorded which leads me to believe that, though on the right track– the system does need some tweaking before its ready for prime time (understood, of course). i like the idea– but… in a way, i must say “why”, as in “why not just leave the ‘go’ button visible at all times?”
a fairly beefy review here, albeit– some prelude with a general description of the ‘concept of beta testing’.
:-)
primarily, there is an illustration included here, that i’d like you to examine:
http://secretspystuff.blogspot.com/2007/12/software-beta-testing-mozilla-firefox.html#firstIssue
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December 24th, 2007 at 10:09 am
thanks mozilla for your firefox3! i love it!!!
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December 24th, 2007 at 1:26 pm
My drop down menu don’t work. Just get a blank screen on all drop downs
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December 24th, 2007 at 1:36 pm
Very awesome, looking forward for the final release. Keep up the great work. =)
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December 24th, 2007 at 9:33 pm
Love it. I’m an IT and i always recommend FF to everyone, now i have something else to suggest as well, besides making people aware they don’t have to use Idiot Exploder lol. -FLO
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December 26th, 2007 at 2:35 pm
The location bar is a terrific addition. I love it.
I don’t like the “check now” option which comes up every time I open Firefox.
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December 27th, 2007 at 8:49 am
no comments good as always
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December 27th, 2007 at 9:28 am
Wont open lotus notes email
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December 28th, 2007 at 3:40 am
I like the new location bar, in principle. In practice, it’s too slow.
e.g. I’m going to my ISP’s site I type in http://www.ispname.net I’ve finished typing the entire URL and only “w” is showing in the location bar. Then, after far too long (1 second is far too long), what I had typed shows and the pull down appears.
It needs to not slowdown someone that knows where they what to go.
I prefer to know where I’m going, before someone tells me where to go… ;-)
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December 28th, 2007 at 3:46 pm
Love at First Sight! ..This is gonna be a Killer app (browser) when out!
Strong competition for IE7….i know most of your must be laughing but normal users around the world dont even know FF
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December 28th, 2007 at 8:24 pm
According to your article “According to studies on human cognition, it is easier for us to isolate elements on an image based on different coloring than any other attribute.
So, if the user knows she is entering part of a web address or a page title it will be easier for her to find what she’s looking for. Highlighting the match result also helps to direct the user’s attention.”
Perhaps it is colored specific for she, and her, but not he and him ??? Whereby maybe men notice shapes better and not colors…
What dOO you Think ??
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December 30th, 2007 at 4:33 pm
I don’t like this. I’m used to typing the first two letters of the sites I use a lot. It’s just using more time as I need to scroll down to find it. I don’t like the massive fonts either. And I don’t like the way the go button turns into the star button.
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December 30th, 2007 at 8:06 pm
On first glances apart from the address bar there don’t appear to be many changes. Although it does work a bit quicker than FF V2 when loading webpages.
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December 31st, 2007 at 8:21 pm
Hey!
It’s staying up!
‘Last two versions have been canning-up on me for the last two/three weeks.
NB
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January 1st, 2008 at 11:45 am
Very useful! I like it! Now I can find a page I´ve been in more easily. It was a good idea to make it work in the names of the pages, too, and not only in the links.
Thax developers!^^
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January 1st, 2008 at 7:32 pm
Hi!my english is litle bit.i wont mozilla is greek language please.You wont?thanks and happy new year!
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January 2nd, 2008 at 9:02 pm
As a first impression it is very fast.
It remains to be seen. But I will let you know how it works out.
Best regards
Steven Kerekes
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January 3rd, 2008 at 12:41 am
I dont like the way FireFox 3 is… When I click an icon (at very being of URL address, it shows Identity Unknown. I want to see the old way. Please bring it back ASAP. Otherwise Firefox NEEDS to give us more examples how to do that.
IF Firefox folks don’t give an example, then I will go back to Firefox 2. I probably will tell everyone, not worth to have this version unless improving information.
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January 3rd, 2008 at 11:47 am
Hallo
Firefox 3 ist gegenüber dem IE 7 viel schneller im Seitenaufbau,die Downloads sind schneller,einfach nur besser!!!
Gruß Olli
EDIT: Translation by Google Translate: Firefox 3 is compared with the IE 7 much faster in page design, the downloads are faster, just better!
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January 3rd, 2008 at 9:23 pm
your definitely headed in the right direction. but you still have a few problems. keep up the good work.
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January 4th, 2008 at 6:23 am
This mighty location bar does not search the names of bookmarks, if you choose to use a name for your bookmark that does not correspond to the original page title. Is that correct, or am I missing something?
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January 4th, 2008 at 6:34 pm
I love Ubuntu. Microsoft appears to me like a monopoly. So I want to participate to open source as far as possible, because I’m not experienced in IT!
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January 4th, 2008 at 11:29 pm
http://techrepublic.com.com/1324-4-55.html
FF2 worked at this site, now with FF3b2 it no longer accepts cookie, although the settings have been adjusted appropriately.
Hope you can suggest a fix or take a look at what might be causing the problem.
I will continue to examine on my end. Should I find resolution…I will advise.
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January 5th, 2008 at 5:16 pm
This mighty location bar does not search the names of bookmarks, if you choose to use a name for your bookmark that does not correspond to the original page title. Is that correct, or am I missing something?
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January 7th, 2008 at 6:48 am
I´ve been trying the “Firefox 3 Beta 2″ program, and I´ve found it all excellent! The only detail that might make it less popular is that it still doesn´t have a Brazilian Portuguese version! But I believe (and hope) this will be corrected soon when the definitive version comes up!
Congratulations! And Thank you for your excellent work!
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January 7th, 2008 at 9:05 pm
Gspace, fire ftp ie tab and more Extensions not working new mozilla 3 beta
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January 8th, 2008 at 1:19 am
Sir
This is good, but google toolbar is not working on this. Otherwise it is good and I hv not come across much problem in this.
Regards
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January 8th, 2008 at 1:21 am
Is there any way to disable this? I find it horrendously annoying.
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January 8th, 2008 at 1:29 am
further to my last comment
to disable it (back to FF2 version), go to
about:config
and change
browser.urlbar.richResults
to false.
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January 8th, 2008 at 6:55 am
seen that on safari.
but it will be a pain in my ass if i visit too many websites and bookmarked too many pages….
i rather search it by bookmarks.
it will be a good idea if it can be customize.
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January 8th, 2008 at 1:42 pm
This feature is very cool but I don’t find that it is as useful as it looks at first glance. If you keep it in the product I would make the title and URL fonts the same type and size … otherwise it’s much too cluttered.
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January 9th, 2008 at 1:38 am
esta chido
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January 9th, 2008 at 9:07 am
I’ve been using since the release of Beta 2, and i must say that i love this new location Bar.
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January 9th, 2008 at 10:24 am
firefox3 wery too gooooooooooooooood thank you wrey much
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January 9th, 2008 at 7:43 pm
Why is Firefox only in english??
I’m a French Canadian and i don’t understand everything i can do with Firefox…Will you make it in French for us sometime…
Wish you a Happy New Year 2008 and hope that you will think of us in the future.
Answer me please(in french if possible).
Friendly,felix_le_minou@yahoo.ca
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January 9th, 2008 at 9:09 pm
Pretty neat. Keep up the good work, and hope you can get this to work with more programs. IE is getting worse all the time, and I use FIREFOX-MOZILLA almost exclusively.
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January 9th, 2008 at 10:35 pm
Daniel, Firefox is not just in English. Pick your language here: http://www.mozilla.com/en-US/firefox/all.html
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January 10th, 2008 at 7:23 am
WOW, this really moves and looks great. I’m looking forward to the new experience.
While I don’t know if this has anything to do with the new beta, I have noticed that when I go off page and come back that I get a little enclosed box that says “MOZILLA LINKS IN JAPANESE”. I think I also saw a similar instance with something about deleting a sentence or deleting some highlighted item. I will pay closer attention next time it happens and let you know.
It seems to be some residual data from another page
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January 10th, 2008 at 11:26 am
When will add-ons and extensions become available? I use Google and RoboForm toolbars constantly. I can’t use them now.
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January 10th, 2008 at 3:02 pm
I generally like the new Beta, but the location bar is definitely not my taste. The double line list entries make my eyes water, the way the highlight jumps from row to row is really annoying and besides it takes three times longer to find the page I need.
keep it up:)
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January 10th, 2008 at 4:55 pm
the show history in sibe bar option is gone as i found that a very important part in my browsing i was wandering if you could return it
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January 11th, 2008 at 8:31 am
Andrew, I guess you mean it’s not longer available by selecting Show All History… in the History menu which opens the Library focused on the History section now.
However, it’s still accessible pressing Ctrl + H, or selecting View/Sidebar/History. Hope that helps.
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January 12th, 2008 at 9:29 am
It’s just fantastic and the speed is cool
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January 12th, 2008 at 11:50 am
Is there a way to turn off this feature? I like to start typing the address for a page and it brings up the common addresses that I use. With the new location bar, it ends up pushing those pages down in the list in favor of page titles that are unrelated.
At the very least, I don’t think it should be searching for strings in the middle of titles and ranking them first. For instance, “en” seems to be a very common substring. Of course, Firefox doesn’t know that I’m typing it because I’m going to en.wikipedia.org, but when I need to scroll through 20 different locations just to get to Wikipedia, it’s a bit annoying.
It doesn’t even seem to match the web address at all. The only Wikipedia results in my location history appear because they happen to have titles which contain “en”.
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January 13th, 2008 at 3:26 am
i can’t download video using tiz new version. plz give me advice
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January 14th, 2008 at 1:40 am
It is really almighty,but i think it’s a little ugly.The font and icon is too big to make it offensive.
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January 14th, 2008 at 1:44 pm
I always end up customising customer installations of firefox to show the new window /tab buttons amongst other things. I’d be really pleased to see a feature that let you make a note of your customization style as a reference number that could be typed in for auto customization.
Tabbed browsings great but I often have a search running in more than I tab at a time. A feature i’d like to see is a dropdown search window appear on each tab.
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January 14th, 2008 at 9:46 pm
Hi!
I recently downloaded Firefox3. I feel more comfortable with its interface. I have 1 MAJOR problem though. I cannot use Yahoo! Mail Beta with Ff3. Error Messages keep on popping up. Thanks
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January 15th, 2008 at 3:39 am
thought this was an upgrade of the current version I am using..but downloaded as a separate browser..so do I uninstall the old firefox now?
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January 15th, 2008 at 3:45 am
right off the bat its not compatible with my google toolbar I had and the bookmarks add-on..I hope that doesn’t mess up with the synthesizing of my bookmarks
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January 16th, 2008 at 1:12 am
i am unable to organize the bookmarks. i like the tags, but i find that i need the ability to organize my booksmarks!
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January 16th, 2008 at 5:58 pm
I am sooooo glad that Mozilla has ironed out the stability problems and the spiraling CPU consumption that forced me to go to i.e. and even try apples safari. But I missed the functionality of Firefox and am so pleased that Firefox 3 beta is out and I am happy to use Firefox again for all my browsing needs. You get spoiled with the ease of some addons such as No Script, Flash Block, Add Block Plus and Flashgot that it was painful to browse without Firefox. Everything looks great and the new button designs look cool! Everyone is doing an incredible job. Firefox is what the internet is supposed to be all about, free exchange of ideas in an on-line community. Keep up the good work!!
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January 16th, 2008 at 6:46 pm
I love Fire Fox 3!
I can’t find bugs so far! :)
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January 17th, 2008 at 12:52 pm
I am enjoying it very much, thank you.TT.
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January 17th, 2008 at 8:47 pm
why isn’t Firefox searching my bookmarks ?
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January 20th, 2008 at 6:21 am
Really nice feature. Just hangs a bit on my machine
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January 20th, 2008 at 11:34 pm
I just wanted to be up-to-date with everything that was going on with Firefox and to my surprise, Firefox has gone beyond my expectations. I normally use IE 7 and now I’m actually thinking about making Firefox my default browser. Why? Because this new look is awesome, seems to be much more stable and faster, and it is much more convenient and easier to use. It also has more features to help with individual customizations. I love it!!!
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January 21st, 2008 at 12:14 pm
I can’t open my new version of Yahoo mail and have to shift back to the classic version, and also, can’t read the Chinese.
Thanks.
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January 21st, 2008 at 4:40 pm
I am a user of MOZILLA FIREFOX and I just downloaded your newest addition FIREFOX 3 beta 2. I AM LOVING IT. WAY TO GO I DID NOT THINK IT COULD GET ANY BETTER, MY HAT IS OFF TO YOU! YOU HAVE MADE IT A BLESSING TO BE IN THE INTERNET WORLD DAILY. Please keep up the great work and PLEASE KEEP FIREFOX 3 BETA 2.
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January 21st, 2008 at 5:23 pm
LIKE I TOLD YOU BEFORE I’LL WORK WITH YOU, BUT I FIND IT KIND OF FUNNY THAT YOUR OWN WEB SITE SEEMS TO BE DELETING HUGHES.NET USERS= CUSTOMERS, BY GIVING EACH 3 DAYS TO RESPOND. WHAT ABOUT THE CUSTOMERS THAT ARE ON BUSINESS OR ON VACATION AND WONT BE ABLE TO GET THIS 3 DAY MANDATORY ORDER?
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January 21st, 2008 at 8:47 pm
Firefox still will not open this site at all without the IE Tab extension which does not work in the Beta.
http://www.eng-tips.com/index.cfm
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January 22nd, 2008 at 1:07 pm
The url addres make it too big. I think I’ts not necessary.
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January 22nd, 2008 at 4:33 pm
Perhaps it’s just me, but I’m too used to looking at just the URLs to quickly select the page I’m looking for. The idea of page titles seems good though and could be useful for other people.
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January 25th, 2008 at 2:13 pm
WOW! i am incredibly impressed! all of the visual upgrades are a nice touch to an awesome browser! The much more appealing look of the web bar make this update awesome! Not to mention the new security feature! this just makes my day! cant wait for my collage to start supporting FireFox 3!
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January 26th, 2008 at 9:37 am
back and forward button does not work
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January 28th, 2008 at 4:59 am
Well this version is very useful except the “Clear” button in the download manager is removed, we have to right click to clear the list…this button was handy…
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January 28th, 2008 at 3:10 pm
I disabled browser.urlbar.richResults in about:config but all that does it is disable the styling of the urlbar to the old FF2 style. How do you completely disable the search so that it only sticks to searching only URLs similar to FF2?
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February 1st, 2008 at 10:30 pm
Very good so far. I’m going to love all the new features.
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February 4th, 2008 at 3:29 am
I wait for the German version. Favorites, new folder. How this works now, I have not understood. Thank you for your work and continue like that.
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February 4th, 2008 at 6:45 am
trying to load Hotmail - just Times Out
Works fine on Previous Firefox
regatfs
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February 6th, 2008 at 5:46 am
it’s too slow in startup…as firefox 2
look ie 7 or safari, they are speedest….
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February 6th, 2008 at 7:55 am
I dont like the new bookmark system, I want to be able to make My own folders like in all the other previous Firefoxes, I read somewhere about clicking twice on th star, doesnt seem to do anything, come on, let us at least hae the option of adding & organising our own bookmark folders
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February 6th, 2008 at 10:36 pm
I have to say this firefox beta 3 is the bomb man. Its so fast on the downloads and installed very well. I am keeping my little eye on the trunk for updates. Good Job :)
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February 7th, 2008 at 12:36 pm
Firefox 3 is awesome. The rendering engine is blazing fast. The useability aspects are… cool, but you must allow the user the choice of switching off fancy features and having a ‘plain txt’ display, as we previously enjoyed in FF2.
It’s all about choice!
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February 7th, 2008 at 4:34 pm
Firefox 3 beta aveces se demora un poco se pono lento y no tiene accesorios compatibles si intentan bajar nuevos nolos reconoce pero en general funciona bien bien
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February 8th, 2008 at 2:55 pm
add rss feeds to the plethora of info that the bar provides and it will truly be almighty.
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February 8th, 2008 at 4:05 pm
In my opinion it is very good idea ;P It is similar to Opera, and i always wanted to have smth like this in FF.Also favourite icon in in adresbar is better for new users, i think.
Best wishes 4 all FF team.
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February 9th, 2008 at 12:14 am
Tx 4 ur newest beta 3 my questio is why don’t you make it fire fox 3 in indonesian version i believe million indonesian that use this application can’t understand english well iappresiate 4 ur inovation good luck GBU
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February 9th, 2008 at 2:27 pm
I love Firefox 3 They’re Good useful new feature and very very good.
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February 9th, 2008 at 4:06 pm
Make it optional!
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February 9th, 2008 at 11:21 pm
I love it. It’s a good creative idea for user interface, that make me easier to access my favorite web.
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February 10th, 2008 at 11:45 am
Excellent feature. I would love it if you will make the Web Developers Toolbar and FireBug availiblr for Firefox 3!
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February 11th, 2008 at 10:37 am
the best web browser in this world…excelent….i adore this browser………amazing expirience
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February 11th, 2008 at 4:33 pm
I fell in love with firefox. I just installed firefix 3. I had to move to new version as firefox 2 won’t startup at all after installing following: plugin
Support.com SmartIssue
I even tried installing firefox 2 from scratch, but didn’t help.
I don’t like that some of internal Intel Web pages can be viewed only with IE.
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February 11th, 2008 at 6:09 pm
With the beta, I am now totally happy and found a browser for Mac that does not suck ass.
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February 12th, 2008 at 6:41 pm
I do miss some of the Add-ons that I had on version 2, but I am hopeful that they and others will be available when the final Version 3 comes out. Thanks
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February 13th, 2008 at 1:27 am
Maybe I haven’t found it yet, but I can no longer rightclick on the Home button and “open in new tab” like I used to. A little thing but I miss it already :) For work reasons I have a specific page as my homepage, but I don’t necessarily want it open all the time. Now, when I decide I DO want to look at it, I have to Ctrl+T to get a new tab for the Home page. Thanks!
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February 13th, 2008 at 3:29 am
ty so much for Turkish language…
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February 13th, 2008 at 5:18 am
oh please.. please.. please..
find me more compatible plug ins for this beta 3, coz i miss lots of my installed plugins in 2.0.0.9
:(
but FF, way to go, dude!!! i love FF better than any other webbrowsers
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February 13th, 2008 at 7:14 am
Very good work guys!!!
One thing: there is no more way to get the “home” button on the navigation toolbar? I really have to view all the “bookmark toolbar” (that I never use normally) to have my “home” button?
Thanks again for your eccellent work.
Roger
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February 13th, 2008 at 10:32 am
It seem to me ur figures is not match 4 adault. Figures or Screen be macho. Speed is okay no problem my be acelarate down load it might be increased. Tx 4 ur inovation bravo go head GBU
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February 13th, 2008 at 11:26 am
I will second the thought about the Home button being on the bookmark toolbar. Please allow it to be put back on the navigation toolbar. I never, ever open the bookmark toolbar and I’m not going to start now just to have the Home button.
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February 13th, 2008 at 11:32 am
Oh, now I see, you can add the bookmark toolbar, then Customize it and move the Home button to the navigation toolbar. That is very cumbersome, and I’m not sure how many people will be able to figure that process out.
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