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.
Update: For tweaks including ways to exclude bookmarks and history from the location bar, check these 9 tweaks for Firefox 3’s location bar.
Comments
Aubrey
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/
Asa Dotzler
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
Heliologue
I noticed this feature in the betas of Kestrel and liked it; I’m glad Firefox is going to get it too.
George
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.
user
“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.
Old KatJuly 6th, 2008 at 6:25 pm
Agreed. Since my history is always wiped, it only shows auto complete for things I have bookmarked. I don’t need to type the addresses of my bookmarked sites. That’s WHY I HAVE THEM BOOKMARKED. It’s doubly irritating, because there is no contingency to turn off this feature. They did this with Firefox 2, as well, with the session restore. Another feature that I don’t want, but they make it impossible to turn it off without hacking through a messy configuration text document. Some people don’t want all of these new features, but are forced to absorb them in order to maintain the highest level of security in their browser.
shoofy
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?
user
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
Paweł Kondzior
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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TS
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?
Li Ming
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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ThiefMaster
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.
cris
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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Adrian
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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GNU
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.
firefox_lover
don’t like new location bar, cuz it’s to big.. need to remake..
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anon
I want the go button(the green arrow) back pernamently, or way to do so.
Brian
You should have a button to make it easier to open new tabs(like in IE).
AdrianJune 11th, 2008 at 4:26 pm
Right click anywhere in the toolbar, select “Customize…” in the drop down menu and add the “New tab” button.
That’s one way to make it easier to open new tabs.
Otherwise you can just double click on any free space in the tab bar to open a new one, or press ctrl+t.
Or you can start typing something in the awesome bar and then middle click (click the scrolling wheel) the green arrow that appears, this will open the web page in another tab instead of the current one.
Mikel Ward
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.
Robert
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.
David Wolford
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.
Naveen
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.
Mikel Ward
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.
Liran
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.
The Bead Man
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 !!
blsksmin
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
dave
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… :+)
sutaryo
i like beta 2, but why add on for skin aero vista can’t use in here
Levi
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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Amnon
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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Nathan Bates
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.
Mikel Ward
You can disable it
http://kb.mozillazine.org/Browser.urlbar.richResults
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norcom
This address bar thing SUCKS ASS, how the hell do I turn it off?
Anand Keathley
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.
Percy Cabello
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.
Ryanz
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.
Roscoe
It’s nifty, but it also seems unnecessarily bulky. I hope there is a setting for the font size in it.
Ali
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.
PA
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…)
Jeremy
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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hayden
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.
omfgXD
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…
NoviceNotesNet
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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Jim Simmons
My drop down menu don’t work. Just get a blank screen on all drop downs
momentai07
Very awesome, looking forward for the final release. Keep up the great work. =)
Flo
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
Brian Taylor
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.
Richard Ramsden
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… ;-)
Tushar
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
ken
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 ??
user
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.
Rob H
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.
Nole Buddy
Hey!
It’s staying up!
‘Last two versions have been canning-up on me for the last two/three weeks.
NB
Sharin
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!^^
Kostas Agyrths
Hi!my english is litle bit.i wont mozilla is greek language please.You wont?thanks and happy new year!
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Istvan Kerekes
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
P Kahn
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.
Olli
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!
joebanana
your definitely headed in the right direction. but you still have a few problems. keep up the good work.
Michaël
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?
Arnaud Duchemin
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!
ohende
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.
mubarak
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?
Roberto (nimageris)
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!
akash
Gspace, fire ftp ie tab and more Extensions not working new mozilla 3 beta
Krishnan
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
Richard Lyon
Is there any way to disable this? I find it horrendously annoying.
Richard Lyon
further to my last comment
to disable it (back to FF2 version), go to
about:config
and change
browser.urlbar.richResults
to false.
Sebastian
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.
Scott Fitchet
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.
Yasu
I’ve been using since the release of Beta 2, and i must say that i love this new location Bar.
Daniel Godin
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
Pat Bratton
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.
Michaël
Daniel, Firefox is not just in English. Pick your language here: http://www.mozilla.com/en-US/firefox/all.html
Charlie Quick
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
Dave Crocker
When will add-ons and extensions become available? I use Google and RoboForm toolbars constantly. I can’t use them now.
Era
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:)
Andrew Olsson
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
Percy Cabello
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.
Tim
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”.
N.KOTESWARA RAO
It is really almighty,but i think it’s a little ugly.The font and icon is too big to make it offensive.
Laurence Fryer
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.
John Zamora
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
Bernadine Dabutch
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?
Bernadine Dabutch
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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michael rose
i am unable to organize the bookmarks. i like the tags, but i find that i need the ability to organize my booksmarks!
Parlen
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!!
Daniel Klingmann
Really nice feature. Just hangs a bit on my machine
Lawrence G.
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!!!
Vincent Leung
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.
Cindi Chronister
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.
MICHAEL SCHMITZ
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?
David Rosenkrantz
Firefox still will not open this site at all without the IE Tab extension which does not work in the Beta.
Sunil
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.
Michael S
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!
Mike
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…
Clive
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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John Lesnak
Very good so far. I’m going to love all the new features.
Wolfgang Schiewart
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.
tonyhi
trying to load Hotmail – just Times Out
Works fine on Previous Firefox
regatfs
MArco
it’s too slow in startup…as firefox 2
look ie 7 or safari, they are speedest….
Zac
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
Alan Parry
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!
jorge eduardo
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
Jarrod
add rss feeds to the plethora of info that the bar provides and it will truly be almighty.
Michał Grabowski
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.
bambang heryanto
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
rashid kosnan
I love Firefox 3 They’re Good useful new feature and very very good.
TS
I love it. It’s a good creative idea for user interface, that make me easier to access my favorite web.
Daniel Groves
Excellent feature. I would love it if you will make the Web Developers Toolbar and FireBug availiblr for Firefox 3!
Tajinder Singh
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.
VictorDTarsus
With the beta, I am now totally happy and found a browser for Mac that does not suck ass.
Adam Binder
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
Trysha H
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!
inikodja
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
Roger
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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bambang heryanto
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
Dennis Roe
Love your latest beta of Firefox. You guys continue to do an outstanding job of incorporating ideas to make your browser the best, most productive and easy to use. I’ve been with you from the beginning!
v
too many results come up for me w/ the new location bar. i visit lots of industry sites w/ the same word (phone) in their description/web address. before it was easier to just start typing the page name, and only a few choices would pop up. now i have too many incorrect sites that show up just cause they contain the word phone. not a big fan of this feature, i’m going back to the older version of firefox immediately. please make this feature an option on the final software version, didnt see any way to turn it off… i do like the new bookmark star though
xelos
tiz firefox is d best.i hope u can make it compatible wit real player
Ian McLauchlin
I’m a relative newcomer to Firefox, having become so frustrated at the way IE stalls, hangs etc. Firefox just gets better and better!
raph
small bug(?)- I can’t remove the whole “day” folder directly from the history list :(
And I dare to say that over 60MB of memory used during browsing only one website is definitely too much!
And what is worse than that, when I open many of folds (about 20)
and then close them leaving only one website opened, FF3B3 uses over 75MB of memory ;/ Please! Fix it!
Helper
@Trysha H February 13, 2008 1:27 am
hold crtl and click on it…
Trysha H
@Helper February 13, 2008 4:22 pm
I LOVE U! Thx that’s even better than what I used to do!
SLA
Firefox 3 Address Bar is the BEST and EXTREMELY USEFUL addition in Firefox 3 ! I can’t understand, how I could live without it??? Guy, which invented it is genius!
John
yeap.. its very nice.. excellent job :)
I like the new location bar.. keep going :)
Frank
You can’t no longer disable it using browser.urlbar.richResults…
see: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=407836
Can we at the very least stop it from reading the bookmark folder?
Adrian Williams
What put the home icon in the bookmarks toolbar without the option of moving it to the navagation toolbar
Lynne
I intensely dislike the location bar feature, and do not care for the overall appearance/theme. Very slow, jerky scrolling. Camino is my default browser, I am now even less likely to use Firefox.
Aaron Harris
My initial impression of the UI is good, sharp with a slight improvement in speed, (that might just be me) Look forward to SiteAdvisor Add-in compatability!
Darb
I DON’T like the NEW feature which is Firefox 3 location bar.
Can you PLEASE tell us how to disable? Please tell us how to do this WITHOUT telling go there. GIVE us a DIRECT LINK.
Thank you!
Erick Johnson
Im sorry, but this new theme in FireFox is horrid… When I saw it, I literally backed away from the screen. The theme is all wrong, the back button is ugly, taking away the go button like you did was a dumb idea… Now its even hard to get the go button when you want it. And where is the home button?! I need the home button!!! This new beta is horrible, and makes me wanna switch back to FireFox 2. I have to say, that IE 7 is better then this new thing. Nice job, you screwed up, and I hate it.
Peter
Rob Munn February 13, 2008 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.
***
Thank you so much for pointing this out! The lack of a Home button was driving me nuts.
Speaking of which, the location bar is horrid. If you don’t give me the option of turning that crap off I might just have to go back to IE7 …
Mahmood Rahman
Congratulations to the Firefox 3 beta 3 team. This is the first time I’m using Firefox 3 beta 3 after upgrading from beta 2 and I notice an amazing change in the speed of page loading. I hope other sites’ pages would load as fast. Keep up the good work.
Trejkaz
The most annoying thing about this feature is that shortcuts I used to use to get to certain sites no longer bring up the expected page. I used to type “wiki” and Wikipedia would be up the top. Now I have to type “wikipe” to get it up the top. It’s really annoying as I was used to typing the shorter string. :-(
Brainfade
Ive gone back to Firefox 2 mainly because there is no “make New Folder” button anymore, why did You get rid of it?
I mean, the location bar might be impressing some people but I already know where I am, cant You give us the option of having the new folder button?
Its like a step backwards,the new location bar has these new features etc but they seem too complicated for simpletons like Me, I just want to be able to bookmark pages & organise them how I want WITHOUT having to jump thru hoops, I think I’ll be sticking with FFox 2 until its fixed
paritosh Lokhande
Great Firefox .
Thanks to the developers for developing such a marvelous piece.
IT IS FUN TOO.
FIREFOX 3 ADDRESS BAR BEST AND VERY USEFUL TOO.
wan
FF3 look awesome…
however i just wanna tell my prblem. previously, i’m using FF2 n having trouble to acces the internet,i have to wait almost 10 minutes for the webpage to appear.is this happen because i’m using the old version?
then i installed the FF3, n it become normal again. however i miss the tab effect in the older version as this latest version still couldn’t support it.
BRAVO!!!
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eric
Very impressive initially. User friendly , graphically easy. Location bar – not sure if i’m happy with it i can see it irritating me but will give it a good try but since opera got their first it will be hard to go back to FF. Open minded.
brandon
I totally love the new firefox!! You guys have come a long way and now you take browsing to a new level. I was a fan when u were firebird. Now firefox, well, YOU GUYS ROCK!! Keep that browser looking better. I will never go back to internet explorer.
Much love from Tampa Florida!!
Roger Barlow
The go back button is nice,the speed is great,Ive been trying all kinds of different browsers, but i find myself back here all the time, good job all whos working on making internet live better,we as in the users of your browser says thank a lot for speed,power , stable,and sexy , the other browsers ive been on cant hold a light on yall,thats the way i see it,
Amon
Hi,
I think that you have to more fore arabic codes, I can’t read any think with the beta 3 version.
(en Français)
c’est plus facile pour moi de s’exprimer en Français
voila depuis que j’ai installé la version beta je n’arrive pas à lire quoi que ce soit en arabe, ça me rappelle le même problème avec le passage de la version une à la 2
je suis sur que vous allez régler le problème ;) mais je voulais juste attirer votre attention car on aime FF :P
NB: j’ai changer et utilisé tout les codes d’encodage possible mais toujours rien
Amon
elbeck
well, what can i say? i loved firefox, but now the love has gone. now its an ADDICTION^^
yeah, i know, that was weak =))
well done, boys n girls, i really like the changes.
gamzon
He. will it be possible to keep the last mozilla bar at the same time? (i guess yes,) but than how to run?
whent do you expect to have the french version?
..more easy for day to day use!
i didn’t succès to get on Thunderbird the orthograpy contrôl
how to get it? some mutual assistance is to mutual benefit! is’nt it?
Good W.E to you,
./.by the way were is situed you head office.
I am leaving in Valence Drôme 100km south of Lyon who is the second town of France who is a part of Europe: the truh not the CEE concept but the geographic one (theis the one i prefer!!)
with no, de fact Windows exclusivity unoffical dealed with the autority, but in France with offical agreement ,starting from Miterrand, to run it on all the french school as a part to computers financing support by B.Gate
by now
Daniel internationaly guy but not word open market supporter
hihi last PS what is the main point to have personnal website?? out than to knead(massage) our ego?
CHEKURI CHAITANYA KRISHNA CHOWDARY
MOZILLA FIREFOX 3 BETA 3 IS SOME HAVE GOOD…
BUT,ALL THE EXTENSIONS ARE NOT WORKING…
SO,IT SHOULD BE UPGRADED TO FIT AND SUPPOT ALL THE EXTENSIONS,PLUGINS,THEMES AND ETC;
THANKS FOR TAKING COMMENTS,
FROM:-
CHEKURI CHAITANYA KRISHNA CHOWDARY
$ C C K C $
Ben
Tried using it, but the new url bar was the deal breaker for me. Typing in ‘goog’ and having it bring up gmail is not desired.
seiji
hey, my firefox 2.12 doesn’t start, plus it gets my cpu usage to 100%
micha vRhein
3.0 Beta scheint ok zu sein. Ich vermisse noch eine Gelegenheit für Notizen, ein Schreib Programm und eine Tabellen Kalkulation, wie sie – etwas umständlich – in Gmail angeboten wird.
Möglich, dass diese Möglichkeit besteht, ich sie aber noch nicht entdeckt habe.
micha vRhein
Cezet
I am very disappointed with the design. It’s even worse than version 2. Especially those back and forward buttons. Get rid of them. Why FF3 for Mac OS X looks great and for windows like an old shoe? Besides that, new features are cool. Intelligent bookmarks don’t work properly.
=)
i think maybe the mozilla firefox 2, bookmarks are easier and neater than mozilla firefox 3
Flappity
I generally turn my history off, I’ve told it to not save my history, and I’ve cleared it several times – How come it’s still able to search and find sites I visited days/weeks ago?
Trejkaz
I find the bookmark storage in Firefox 3 quite manageable as I have been tagging my bookmarks for a very long time.
Thing is though, I use Scuttle as my main bookmark storage. It would be good if Firefox had multiple “bookmark stores”, and was initially configured to use just a local one. So if a plugin wanted to add Scuttle integration it would implement a bookmark store which uses Scuttle as the backend and Firefox would silently merge them together. Or if a user wanted to use only Scuttle then it could store all bookmarks there and save the user time which would otherwise be spent moving the entries from the local store to the shared one.
shanmugam
i want the clear list & remove button in download window search option very nice
bill van
I want to be able to put my “home” button back on the navigation tool bar.
howdydooit
This is weird, but when I hit the space bar, this page jumps back to the top. I tried this on some other long pages (other forums, not Moz), and it behaved normally (ie: spacebar = same effect as page down).
Don’t understand the inconsistent behavior, but it’s inconvenient to be 2/3 the way down the page and end up at the top all of a sudden.
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NotasD
Firefox 3.0 Beta 3 y su usabilidad
Ya está disponible para descargar la beta 3 de Firefox 3.0; y a pocos días de ser oficial el lanzamiento, el soft es mucho más estable y rápido que la versión actual. Pero hay unos pequeños cambios en la interfaz que van a tener cierta controversia.
Dr Frank Stefanec
I can’t e-mail out of msnbc.com
When I hit E-Mail from an article, nothing happens. Not sure if you know that or not.
Thanks for a great browser.
Frank
K M Nur
Usability is a vast topic to be interpreted properly. To my best knowledge, usability also ensure giving people choice of using and nt using it. Regarding this dropdown box, I find it really annoying and have been looking to get back to old styles. I do personally surf a lot and dont wanna keep my CPU overloaded by anything not appealing to me. Thought I could leave my two cents here.
Russ Orlando
Why has every version of Firefox I have ever downloaded been unable to allow my mouse to scroll? I use the most up-to-date drivers for my touchpad and have the settings activated yet no scrolling capability. This is a royal pain in the you know what.
belaabidia
why you dont start with french language? for us is very easy to understand what to do
hi
it’s not yet pretty but it’s pretty cool. but…
en(.wikipedia.org)
ma(il.google.com)
ma(il.yahoo.com)
y(ahoo.com)
saved search engines links “g obama” to search google for “obama”
all show the problem. some maybes…
1) user option to allow weight search results(url, title, tag, only ’starts with’..)
2) space then character = search for url
3) be able to promote results from the drop down. click some sorta up arrow = to top.
Jean-Guy Briere
j’aimerais savoir a quelle date la version firefox3 beta3 serait-elle disponible?
Denbigh Gill
its Fan-bloody-tastic the best yet like the nightly build
Pablo Ch.
I hate the ‘richResults’ of the new location bar. It would be better to include an option to disable this new feature!
Pablo Ch.
I hate the ‘richResults’ of the new location bar. It would be better to include an option to disable this new feature!
Ok, I installed the oldbar addon! Solved :)
Vincent
Cool feature, its nice to have the dropdown show the bookmarks list. So just incase you remember something about the web page instead of hunting bookmarks type it there … great feature. You have combined a bookmark search and history listing in one go. Man you guys are way ahead of competition – or should I say competition. You guys virtually have no competition. Let the rest of them compete. Mozilla will stay on top of all. All the best.
Mike
The Back button is missing the pop down menu that allows for quick access to previously visited sites. Instead one has to keep clicking the Back button repeatedly to revisit a site that was visited several websites ago. Its pretty strange that the Forward button has this.
howdydooit
I think that’s how Netscape used to do it (hold down the back/forward arrow). It took me a long time to get used to the separate button ala IE.
michael leo goddard
I still have problems with internetlinks, where I often have to restart my computer because firefox has not shutdown properly from its previous task. Is there a patch for this problem in Firefox 3
Anand Keathley
The back button only goes back one web site at a time. I miss the old bookmark method. I can not create new catagories. The new look is not worth the missing features.
Vinny
I don’t like how this feature lists sub-pages before the main page.
I.e. If I start typing http://www.cnn.com I’ll get links for news story I’ve already visited at the top of the location bar instead of the main page.
Just a personal preference but I like having the main page up top.
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Michaël
Unbelievable how many comments this post generates. Also, a lot of people are underestimating how much thought goes into Firefox.
Or do you really believe you just discovered a big issue with ‘weblinks’ or that the code of the address bar dropdown list just needs one little tweak that will make ‘your’ URL always show on top? And do you really think that the translators have forgotten about ‘your’ language, or that ‘it doesn’t work with e-mail’?
belaabidia
lorsque les informations seraient comprehensibles et en français , il se pourrait que je participe.
Toutefois je garde ma confiance à Firefox
Anand Keathley
Two things. Figured out the back/forward buttons. It’s a left mouse button/right mouse button thing. I did not see an explanation of this. If one left clicks one gets a drop down list but still can only go back or forward one page at a time. Ah, but if one right clicks, there is no apparent difference in the drop down list but one can go to any page on the list jumping passed the rest. I’ve never before seen where it was needed to use separate buttons for this function but it does work. Now, my second problem that I still have no resolution for; I do not see how to create new bookmark folders. The old ones still work fine, and I can still bookmark and either leave them unfiled or put them in files already crfeated. But I have not been able to create new bookmark files to store related bookmarks. That is REALLY slowing my research down. Peace. Anand
Fane
if I`m asked!! faster , safer and easy to use and most off al reliable!!!!!!!!!! and for the rest just ”makeup”!:)) no need fr it!!!
Peter Smith
Firefox Beta 3 still crashes when I try to print with my Brother MFC-9440CN printer. What’s up?
Bharadwaj
I don’t say it’s worse but I am kindda not happy with the location bar….Cant we make it thinner or a bit too…..smaller? may be reduction of it to 10 mm would do i guess….And we can include a coment button along with the star button so as to make them much organized.
The new location bar is tooo bulky it occupies more than half of my screen to search through my history…Reducing the size is really a must according to what I feel
Callum
I really hate this feature and Ive been trying to find out how to turn off the option of looking through bookmarks because it still searches through bookmarks I’ve already removed :|
Link48010
It’s obvious to me that Mozilla has added an emphasis on usability over power with FF3. The interface is nice and quicker to use. It’s obvious also that they have taken hints from other browsers, the improved add-on menu, better bookmark keeping, and download manager improvement (although I still like it in a separate window) are improvements brought by Opera, the slide down box (like the new bookmark window) is from Safari, but Firefox has also improved these features.
Mike
I like the feature, but for the love of God, please remove the website captions and other fluff. I use the history bar a good bit to find sites that I’ve visited recently, and it’s distracting to read through all the extra verbiage.
One word … usability!
Marcelo Aciar
With the new location bar, we can´t clean the private information and history
Don Schmidt
After installing v3, I was highly annoyed that it was not compatible with previous Firefox add-ins such as de-li-cious bookmarks and Coorlis previews as well as about 10 others. I am now going to uninstall v3 and hope that v2 will still work with those add-in programs.
Lucy
Do you have have any add-ons for a speeder download for this new version?
Thank you.
mauited
Why am I still getting a “download error 228″, when I attempt to download add-ons, extensions, etc. I have no problem with IE7-Pro install…..
It also does not crash like Firefox does…..??
link48010
@mauited. I used to get the same thing, the error is in the profile folder. Uninstall beta 3 or newer and during the uninstallation you’ll get the option to delete profile and add-ons. check it and finish. Then reinstall (you have to get rid of FF2 otherwise it will keep the corrupted profile data.)
Greg
I think that firefox is great and really the only thing you guys need to fix are the bookmards. When I click that button, I should be able to see all my bookmarks, I hate scrolling down the list for 10 seconds just to find my youtube bookmark. A browser that does this is Maxthon, I hate to compare but when I can click “favorites” and then have 3-4 panels showing my bookmarks, it makes searching way easier and it’s listed alphabetically.
An example of what I’m talking about can be seen here:
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v226/gmoneyg/bookmarkexample.jpg
Mike B
Very cool. Just getting started, but again, VERY cool!
Keep up the great work.
~mb
Noga
The bookamrk doesn’t comfortable for all the people with a lot sites on the bookmark.
its need to be like explorer 7…
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Roy Coulter
All that is needed is to have the home button on the main toolbar instead of the bookmark bar. It is easier to use there than to open another toolbar that reduces the viewing size of the screen.
Link48010
“SteveBallmer March 11, 2008 8:27 pm
You people have to be kidding! IE 8 beats this by miles!”
I beg to differ, the IE 8 interface and toolbar in the beta’s that I’ve seen are exactly the same as IE 7. Actually IE 8 has only recently passed the Acid 2 test which Firefox 2 also hasn’t passed but has gotten much closer too (Firefox 3 beta 2 was the first to fully pass the test). IE is based off of the Trident rendering engine which has remained practically unchanged since IE’s launch where as Firefox is based off the much faster and far more robust Gecko engine. Not to mention the fact that using Firefox over IE cuts security issues and risks in half cause IE has more holes in it than swiss cheese. This all aside from the fact that IE 8 is what IE 7 *should* have been at it’s launch. This is what I said on my blog November of last year,
“There are many theory’s as to what will be added to Windows 7, but I’ll try to add in the ones I think are most likely. One is IE 9. IE 7 as we all know isn’t that great of a piece of software. It was a rushed release to slow the growth of Firefox, and incorporated many new features, but most of these where buggy and tended to act more like a cheap copy of Firefox. Look for IE 8 to improve on the interface and new features and to make IE 7 what it *should* have been before. This makes IE 9 in a prime time for new features and better performance (pray that IE will finally pass the Acid 2 test).”
Did I say it, or did I say it….
On a side note, about the site you linked to, pull your head out of your…. yeah.
“Trejkaz March 11, 2008 9:44 pm
How lazy can you get? Just drag the button to where you want it, man! That’s why there is a Customize option for the toolbars in the first place!”
there is no home button in the customize menu…..
ZingOctober 22nd, 2008 at 8:35 am
>>255
There is… don’t make me post a screenshot for something that should be obvious to find. Just go into customise and drag the damn Home button to somewhere else. I have mine on the bookmark bar.
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name
Like several others I can’t stand it, much less efficient than typing e.g. “t h downarrow enter” to get to theonion.com.
In beta 4 there doesn’t seem to be a way to disable it. The oldbar extension still matches all sites with a “the” in the title, and there is no browser.urlbar.richResults in about:config. **It badly needs an off button in the options menu.** You certainly shouldn’t have to use an extension to remove functionality, that’s counter-intuitive.
I support turning it on by default though. I can imagine my grandmother liking it, and it’ll only annoy vetern users who are capable of disabling it.
One reason Firefox 3 is going to be awesome - Auto-completion in the Location Bar - redemption in a blog
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Bob Stevens
Firefox 2 let you create a new folder while you were creating the bookmark. This feature make hierarchical bookmarks effortless.
With Firefox 3 you have to know what folder structure you need ahead of time (how many of us are prescient?) or execute a two step create-folder/bookmark operation.
This appears to be a major usability issue for a significant fraction of the comments on this page — I personally hope it is fixed soon.
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[...] just downloaded and installed Firefox 3 Beta 3. It is slightly faster than the version 2.0.x. I like it very much but I wish they could do the [...]
david
how do you erase the new location bar everything i’ve tried won’t work
Dusan M. Stojanovic
All the time j have big trouble.
All the time delete the internet explorer my defaults for mozilla firefox Beta 3 Version.
After some update of microsoft they delete mozilla firefox an can not change the default settings.
Also j can not delete internet explorer from my programm settings. All the time come back the installation from MS.
You need to let me sign mozilla firefox for 1. browser and nothing else.
In LINUX UBUNTU Vers. 6.10 j have no Problems mit MOZILLA.
Only in MS XP Prof.
Truly yours
Dusan M. Stojanovic
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Peter
Ah yeah g’day
Peter here i have recently been having problems opening “internet explorer” it is very frustrating, wanting to open a web cite and not being able to open internet explorer” so i thought i would give “Fire Fox” a go see how it goes surely i won’t have problems with “Fire Fox” as well.
Maybe you could tell me what the problem is with “internet explorer”
Kind regards Peter
Dusan M. Stojanovic
Hi everyone,
j have only 256KB RAM and mean this is sometimes one of problems by chrash.
Other question is while nedd FIREFOX about 90MB running space ?
J have no other Problems with MOZILLA jet.
J have also LINUX UBUNTU 6.10 and sometimes Trouble with updates. Small RAM ?!
My PC is over six jears old but excellent for my douing.
Sincerely
Dusan M. Stojanovic
Dusan M. Stojanovic
Hi everyone,
j have only 256KB RAM and mean this is sometimes one of problems by chrash.
Other question is while nedd FIREFOX about 90MB running space ?
J have no other Problems with MOZILLA jet.
J have also LINUX UBUNTU 6.10 and sometimes Trouble with updates. Small RAM ?!
My PC is over six jears old but excellent for my doing.
Sincerely
Dusan M. Stojanovic
rhodee
Although I am a strong advocate for Safari 3, this ver. of FF 3 beta 5 Rocks!
Please fix the ability for the window to open in it’s last size and position.
Presently the window defaults to encapsulate the entire window.
Thank-you,
rhodee
Dave
Love the beta 5 but absolutely can’t stand the location bar drop down.
You see? I do alot of reading, and after a while of reading, I’ve got quite a history built up.
I’ll start typing into the location bar just before I’m finished reading whatever article I’m on (hitting enter when I’m done), and the drop down covers it up … Pain In The Arse.
If I can figure out a way to shut that stupid drop down off I will.
Dave
Oh, and aside from that insidious location bar drop down, everything else is fast, and very light.
I especially like the speed of it all. Good clean UI for sure. The button is a nice touch.
There isn’t even any remote comparison to IEX. 7 or 8, they’re both clunky and slow. IEX 8 is laughable and still cannot deliver the page load speed, or proper viewing that ff3 can. If anything, IEX is slower and heavier than ever before. In this day and age of lightning fast connections, you don’t want a slower browser … IEX just keeps leaving a bigger and bigger footprint as the months pass by.
I never was much of a ff fan in the first place, but since ff3 came along, well, IEX is looked upon more as being DOA than anything else now. All of our machines have got it now.
Now, if we could just be rid of that silly location bar drop down, we’ll be all set.
Unpec
TO DISABLE THE NEW LOCATION BAR: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/6227
Works great
BeethovenMay 19th, 2008 at 7:53 pm
It still dose not resolve the problem of having the links appear in the address bar. I would like to know why Mozilla is ignoring this complaint? Whats funny is Microsoft is starting to listen to their customers and Mozilla is just ignoring them… By the way don’t bother with Hendrix, several months of asking why and Mozilla has never replied, but I should expect that he’s dead good analogy Mozilla if you have suggestions or problem’s talked to the dead guy.
Cranky Luddite
I just downloaded the beta and started using version 3, and this new bar is the worst implementation imaginable of what might actually be a reasonable idea. (I would have to see a good implementation before I can decide on that last part.)
I type in “ne”, and it sorts “slashdot-NEws for NErds”, and “groklaw.NEt”, and a few other things, BEFORE “NEws.google.com”.
If I WANTED slashdot, I would have typed “sl”. If I WANTED groklaw, I would have typed “gr”.
Do the people who design these things even type at all when they use the browser, or do just they think they are helping out old people who don’t know how to use a mouse with fancy icons?????
It appears to me that this implementation is ONLY for people who ONLY use the location bar when they can’t remember the name of that nifty site they visited last night. For people who habitually navigate by typing, it sucks big time.
The rest of Mozilla 3 might be the best thing ever, but I have to get past this stupidity before I can figure that out.
BTW, there is a bug (on Ubuntu Hardy Heron) where clicking a checkbox, as long as the focus stays in the checkbox, you can’t see whether it is checked or not. That’s kind of sucky, but not nearly as obnoxious as the URL autocompletion issue.
MorbusMay 31st, 2008 at 7:30 am
If you love typing so much why don’t you type two or three characters more you silly? Instead of sl wgy don’t you go slas or even slash? it works for me. No, I lie, what works for me is typin slashdot and enter, firefox does the rest, 2.0 or 3.0
Cranky LudditeJune 1st, 2008 at 2:28 pm
Yeah, why don’t I just type “slashdot news for nerds. stuff that matters.”
Did I say ANYWHERE that I love to type?
Why do you ASSume that I love to type, rather than that I hate to mouse, or any of a number of other possibilities?
I understand that typing “slash” works fine, and if I had to do that all along, I probably wouldn’t be complaining.
But I’ve been pampered; I type “sl” without even looking at the screen to see if it did the right thing, because firefox 2.0 ALWAYS DID THE RIGHT THING.
In short, I’m not stupid — I understand that more characters will disambiguate ambiguous things. But I am lazy, and to me (and to Firefox 2.0) these things were NOT AMBIGUOUS in the first place. I mean, seriously, how could anybody think that if I typed “NE” I wanted to go to some site that ended in “.net”? Hello??? That’s a lot of sites. Now I understand that it is very easy for stupid software to equate my typing “ne” with a “.net” address, but I’m sorry — any human who defends this as a reasonable assumption for software to make just cannot grok the pain it causes to people who navigate like I do. They have added all sorts of fancy artificial intelligence to their baby, and just get pissed off when someone points out that the emperor has no clothes, and that the much simpler algorithm of doing first-character match that any first semester college kid can do in Java works much better for 99% of the people 99% of the time.
This bothers them so much that the suggestion of a switch to implement the old 10 line algorithm or the new algorithm is presented as a major disturbance in the force that would have untold negative impact on software quality. Well, I’m the little kid pointing at the emperor, and I say he’s naked — the first step in software quality is making the software useful, before you worry about the corner cases. Making a fancy thing that handles corner cases, and then refusing to make it handle everyday browsing because it might break the corner cases is just silly.
Jake
Oh Cranky Luddite I feel your pain, I feel your pain. I’m absolutely loving the speed of FF3b5, but that doesn’t stop me wanting to smash the computer to bits because of this damn awful address bar. ‘di’ for digg please, not ‘firefox 3 DIsable awesome bar’… argh!!!! I’ve got to weigh up the super speed of FF3 versus my super frustration and this ridiculous new ‘feature’. I’ve used Firefox since it was Phoenix 0.5 and this is the most infuriating thing ever with it!!!
if it ain't broke..
Where can I send a letterbomb to thank the great minds who came up with the new pos address bar. If this is implemented in the final version there is going to be awful lot of migration to Safari..
Sw
Wow Dude… why don’t we put the WHOLE WEBPAGE in the awesomebar?
Then we could call it the UltraBrowserBar!
Damn I hate the new location bar.
Beethoven
I despise it Why is there not an OPTION to turnoff bookmarks in the address bar? I tried the plugin to bring back version 2 tool bar and it dose not work. If you google there is more than enough complaints about this feature that there should be no reason that the option to turn this off should have not been in RC1. Why is Mozilla ignoring this complaint? (Hence the name Beethoven because he was deaf) I understand a lot of people like it, be that it may all I am saying is why is there not the option to bring the address bar back to version 2 style, I am extremely disappointed Mozilla extremely, extremely disappointed….
I agree.
Why on earth do I want to see my bookmarks in the location bar? Hence the name “location bar” not “bookmark bar”. If I want to see my bookmarks I will open my bookmarks. I only want to see my recent URLs in the location bar. Plus, why do the recent URLs go to the bottom of the window (after the bookmarks)? I keep some bookmarks I rarely visit, but they get listed before all my recent URLs.
I have used oldbar and it solves the way the bar looks, but it still lists my bookmarks.
Is there a way to fix this at all, without switching back to FF2?
SeniJune 15th, 2008 at 12:53 pm
Exactly what I was going to say, practically word for word. I also installed oldbar and my bookmarks still show. Of all the awesome features out there…why this? Definitely puts a damper on my web surfing.
SeniJune 16th, 2008 at 6:16 am
They told me to vote at webware. Seems like a lot of people like it though I think it’s because the complainers don’t know about it. http://www.webware.com/8301-1_109-9965812-2.html
tenno
Guys, seriously.
Love the speed, love the fixes, but that address bar is pissing me off, even with the old bar addon. I like having the sites I visit in a nice organized row that I could scroll down. Now if I type anything in, I get a random assortment of crap I have no interest in. And worst of all, even if I clear private data, they don’t leave. Please, please please make this stupid thing a choice, and not forced in the final release. This is the first and only time in 3 years that I’ve considered moving away from FF, but I hate this with a passion.
I just want things fixed and a simple, intuitive UI. Not fucking guessing games.
New address bar too good to be useful. In 2.0 Firefox not more then 3 letters give me needed address. Wealth of new options is for dummies only.
disappointedMay 25th, 2008 at 11:44 pm
Just wanted to second what tenno said, the new address bar is horrible. There’s absolutely no reason to include bookmarks. All they do is clutter things up and make it hard to find what i’m actually looking for. If i want my bookmarks, i’ll go to bookmarks, i don’t need to have them be part of the address bar. If this address bar is the final version, i’m switching to Opera.
WolfAugust 27th, 2008 at 6:52 pm
I totally agree.. I hate this feature with a passion. I’m rolling back to 2.0. Kind of disappointed. I always liked Firefox because it carved out all the BS and made everything work like a browser SHOULD work. Now I’m bombarded with clutter every time I want to type out a simple URL. Where the heck is it getting these sites I haven’t visited in over a year??? This is a feature geared toward the lowest common denominator of web users- those who can’t figure out how to use technology effectively and need their hand held along the way. At least give us an option to turn this garbage off and use the tried and true method.
Sorry for my tone.. I’m just frustrated. This is a first for Mozilla, who used to have quite the opposite effect on me as a breath of fresh air in the browser industry.
Jman
ok this address bar is pulling history on sites i went to 3 months ago. i clear my history daily. i cannot get rid of this damn address bar. i hate it more than anything. if this thing doesnt get resolved soon im deleting mozilla and going back to internet explorer.
somoene tell me how to clear this history that seems unclearable?
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Jim
Below is an E-mail from Mozilla about having the option of turning off the address bar features. I can’t say that I’m not disappointed. It seems to me Mozilla is just rushing to get 3.0 out.
—————————————————-e-mail from Mozilla——————————————————
Having options isn’t cost free at all: it means more testing, and it means the overhead of putting that option somewhere.
There are bugs on making it possible to restrict the set of items the new address bar searches against, either by default settings (through about:config) or as you type (through special characters like *, +, or @). They didn’t make it for 3.0, but I expect will be in 3.1 and available soon as an add-on.
Trejkaz
Typing “sl” will only visit Slashdot if you’re very lucky. For me, about 50 other pages come up first. Many of them are all on the same site which isn’t Slashdot. That’s the problem with matching anywhere in the URL.
I really wish that if you typed normally, it matched the front, but if you typed /sl then it matched anywhere in the URL or description.
Jim
A correspondence between my self and Mike from Mozilla:
Jim: I’ve been trying to figure out a reply to what you have said. This is just one of many that I just deleted. Your stating that a small but vocal group really doesn’t mean much, as you implied neither dose, “negative feedback”.
Mike from Mozilla: Negative feedback, in and of itself, is not a deterrent. All change, as I said, has resulted in some amount of negative feedback. The more dramatic the change, the greater the degree of hostility to change. We’ve got enough anecdotal evidence that the new location bar changes, while sometimes jarring, represent a major net win for all users, once they get used to the changes. It is not a zero-cost change, but the benefits appear to be substantial enough that we’re willing to force the issue.
Jim: I will analogize it in a political sense; ask a politician or political group on negative feedback and they will tell you. Only one in ten, “Joe Sixpack’s” bothers to complain, the other nine will not bother because they don’t believe that there will be any change. That is why they take negative feed back so seriously, it represents a vast number of people’s thought and ideas.
Mike from Mozilla: This isn’t my first time dealing with a negative response to a change. Whether or not you believe this, usually its just negative feedback, even for changes later deemed by consensus to be a step forward. The amount of avidly positive response is almost unprecedented when replacing longstanding UI behaviours. You don’t know what I know, and what I know tells me to stay the course. No one here has any doubts about that.
Jim: The vast majority of complaints have just asked for a off switch, from what your saying it’s just not cost effective. What it comes down to is you final blurb , “what we believe is a better behaviour.” that is unfortunately an elitist attitude, that telling your users, “we will tell you what you like”.
Mike from Mozilla: You’re welcome to label it as elitist to believe that experienced software engineers and HCI experts are able to build a better product than users would choose to build themselves. Like I said, go look at the initial response to the iPod on Slashdot: http://apple.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=01/10/23/1816257&tid=107 to see a classic example of negative feedback being completely wrong. Dean Kamen, when he was designing the IBOT (the wheelchair that climbs stairs), asked wheelchair users what they really wanted out of a wheelchair, and one of the common responses was “I’d like the seat and the back to be connected, my lower back gets wet after it rains.” Not one person said “I’d like it to climb stairs.” Users in general don’t innovate, they don’t do deep analysis of the tasks they perform most often or design ways for optimizing those tasks. Its fallacy to assume otherwise.
Jim: To me that’s saying our opinion dose not count, that has hurt Microsoft, and the computer industry. Again we are asking for an off switch, that ability has been part of IE 6, 7, and even in the beta of 8. Can you honestly say that an off switch or option is really to much to ask for?
Mike from Mozilla: I did already. Though what off switch you’re talking about in IE actually eludes me. Microsoft pays a huge penalty in terms of code complexity and loss of agility because of their heavy focus on maintaining minimal disruption and maintaining “old” behaviours as options. We don’t have the resources or the desire to saddle ourselves with backwards compatibility (in the user-facing sense) in order to appease a small percentage of our users. Its death by a thousand papercuts to build software that way, and a really good way to end up with something like the Mozilla Suite (55 panels of preferences). Down that path lies failure, and we’re not going to burn time and resources on it.
–end of my correspondence with Mike—
For Mozilla, I know many of us don’t like this feature, and I firmly believe an off option should not be ruled out. As far as Mike not knowing where it is in IE, go to advanced option and check on “do not search from address bar” it’s that simple in IE. Mozilla’s Firefox is a far superior product, and thats why I am complaining, to many the address bar is not an improvement, all we are asking for is a modest amount of consideration, and allow us the option of turning it off….
maysarilingmundo
I dont like it how do I make it behave like the old one
Cranky LudditeJune 10th, 2008 at 10:56 pm
You can’t. You can sort of make it look like the old one, with oldbar, but you can’t actually make it work like the old one.
You see, the human factors specialists at mozilla know better than you. They know that you will eventually succumb to Stockholm Syndrome and come to love the new one.
JimJune 11th, 2008 at 11:22 am
Hopefully someone will come out with a plug-in or ad-on to disable the behavior of the address bar, As of right now Mozilla is forcing the issue on their users. In their opinion they think it’s better and will not support even just an option of disabling their new address bar. My advice is go to the following link http://hendrix.mozilla.org/ and ask for an disable option, until they get enough complaints they will not address it. I believe if they get enough complaints they will give in and add a disable option.
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Jim
If you do or don’t like the location bar follow the link and vote.
http://www.webware.com/8301-1_109-9965812-2.html
To those who would like a disable option again I strongly suggest following this link and simply ask Mozilla for the Option like any company or corporation if they hear enough complaints
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smerball
i DO NOT like it and i will not upgrade to it. c’mon developers, give us a break. arrogantly defending and rationalizing it just makes some of us very hostile.
from a creative perspective it is a beautiful thing and i say rock-on. but from a choice perspective i say please don’t make us go where we don’t want to.
that is my opinion what is wrong. being forced to use and accept something. the kde4 thing comes to mind in this regard also.
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Seni
Yeah, guys. Vote! http://www.webware.com/8301-1_109-9965812-2.html
So far people loving it are tipping the scales even though I’ve seen more complaints than praise on more than 5 sites.
Jens
Useful???? It’s is the worst thing I have ever seen. I cannot use the url history bar at all anymore.
I use to open most sites by typing the first 2 or 3 letters of the site, and the right sight would be first on the list.
Now, since it matches ANYWHERE in the url AND title, it is completely random what comes up.
The order also is not alphabetic, but instead sorted by what you used last. That means you always get some sub-page, rather than the front page, and almost all the time when you go to a site, you want the front page, and not the sub-pages that you already looked at.
Worst of all is that they didn’t even provide an option where you can chose if you want FF2 behavior.
For this reason alone, I will switch back to IE.
Jens
I think the only people loving it, are people who were not using it at all before.
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Gerard Gadal
Sorry if this is a repost, I couldn’t find the solution above.
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TO GET RID OF THE URL BAR DROPDOWN
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> go to about:config
> set “browser.urlbar.maxRichResults” to -1
> restart firefox 3
It’s a love/hate feature. It’s powerful, but in-your-face. I agree there should be an easier way to get rid of it.
Cranky LudditeJune 17th, 2008 at 3:50 pm
I don’t want to turn it off. I want it to work exactly like it did in 2.0. For me, this is no solution. For me, oldbar is also no solution, because it makes it LOOK like the old one, but still WORK like the new one.
As far as I know, for me and people of similar habits, there is no current solution — FF 3.0 has been deliberately broken by people who don’t care. Maybe they will unbreak it in 3.1.
MANUEL
NO PRIVACY— WITH THIS THIS BAR—- REMINDS ME OF VISTA INDEXING, AND VISTA SUCKS
MANUEL
NO PRIVACY—- REMINDS ME OF VISTA INDEXING—- AND VISTA SUCK!!!!!!!!!
Eastern_Digital
the new feature complete and utter crap to me. If some people like it..so be it. But at least give us an option to switch it back to the ff2 interface! That’s all we ask for.
Allen
Ok, after a day of using it, I’m going back. The Awesome bar is unusable for me. I have my url history set to never expire, and now I have to type in entire urls nearly every time I use it. I’m spending about 5 times the time I spent typing in urls I used to. Old Bar doesn’t sort things right and doesn’t have a preference to change it. ARRRRRRRG.
N
I hate it. The font is huge, and it is so much harder to read. I know the website URL I want, I don’t need the confusing titles in the way. Is there an option to turn it off?
What were they thinking??? This is what is called a “show-stopper”. I’m going back to Firefox 2. And, NO, Oldbar doesn’t work like the old bar.
I’m shaking my head in disbelief.
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Trejkaz
It isn’t a “show stopper.” A show stopper is something which prevents the application being distributed at all, a major issue.
This issue only pisses off users. It doesn’t prevent the application working.
It’s a “show-stopper” for me. i.e. it doesn’t reside on my computer anymore. I just re-installed Firefox 2. I’m loving it. I have 1- and 2-letter keystrokes memorized of my frequently visited sites that I scan every day. I know they are at the top of the list because I visit those sites every day. I don’t even bother to look at the address bar — I just type in the letters, down-arrow, and enter. One of those sites is news.bbc.co.uk As someone wrote, when typing in ‘ne’, why would anyone think that Firefox should display websites ending in ‘net’ just because they have ‘ne’ in the name??????? After so much good work out of the people who develop Firefox, what the f??k happened????
robJune 17th, 2008 at 11:20 pm
I just uninstalled Firefox 3 for this very reason. I have a lot of bookmarks that I use VERY infrequently and I sure as heck don’t want them coming up when I type in the address bar… It is cluttered and unreadable.
Anonymous CowJune 18th, 2008 at 4:15 am
I agree. The “awesome bar” sucks BIG TIME and it is a major display of arrogance by Alex Faaborg and his gang that they will not even allow it to be optional. I have been forced to disable auto-complete on all five installations of Firefox 3, which in effect means that the new browser version is worse off feature-wise than the previous version. I hope it won’t be long before we see a branch off the trunk that RESTORES THE ORIGINAL WAY THE LOCATION BAR WORKED.
GlendaJune 19th, 2008 at 10:42 pm
NP, where did you find Firefox 2 to reinstall? Every link I find that refers to FF 2 gives me only FF 3 to download. (It’s as if it’s obsolete now.) If I uninstall FF 3 (which I installed today as an upgrade from FF 2), won’t I lose all my stuff? I’ll have to back up everything, right? I think I can do this, but where can I find FF 2?
I got FF 3 without checking it out much because I trusted Mozilla. No more. With Firefox 3, I feel as if I’m dealing with Microsoft — for many reasons.
I hope I inserted this message in the right place. I rarely participate in forums.
Jim
i just hate this feature … i dont want my “bookmark” showup everytime !!
Jerm
I HATE it. When I want to go to CNN.com I start typing ‘C’ and guess what comes up: docs.google.com, http://www.facebook.com, yeap all urls that start with a C right?
Don’t know who thought this a good way to search.
zeroone
I hate new location bar
Location bar is for favicon and url not for titles.
It is very cumbersome and yeah too big
Jim
If you really dislike it you HAVE to tell Mozilla, and just don’t tell them you hate it tell them why.
Here is the link: http://hendrix.mozilla.org/
Mozilla like any company if they get enough complaints they will do something about it.
Bill gates
Awesome bar sucks — plain and simple.
If I start typing a URL, THAT SHOULD BE THE FIRST THING THAT POPS UP, not a million other suggestions.
xwire
Its the arrogance that does me… Like with the RSS stylesheet issue a while back where FF replaced the site developers XSL with one of its own. When people complained the response was basically “you’re only users – we know best, deal with it”. I started using OSS and FF specifically to get away from that kind of high-handed dismissive attitude from M$ etc.
Jeroen
The bar has some potential, but seriously, why does it need to display my favorites ?, I know where those are, and I’ll click them when I want to go there.
I want it to display my most recently visited URL’s when I start typing in the address bar, not a flurry of random links that I visited or that I may want to visit…
I love FF3, but this bar is a real downer unfortunately
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mike
Give me back the old search bar functionality. This awesome bar sucks.
Jeff C
PRIVACY ISSUE. Damn. Like I want people standing over my shoulder seeing the sites I go to AND my bookmarks. At least before I could clear my cache and nothing would show. Bastards.
Adam Maas
Great backend improvements coupled with a collection of well-intentioned UI changes make FF the browser equivalent of Windows XP, just without the option of switching back to a proven UI.
The ‘Awesome’ bar is useless. Bookmark system is more complex yet less usable. Several standard behaviours of the browser are changed without good reason.
cheshirepus
Downloaded FF3.0 two days ago and within the first 5 minutes of testing it out, I was already Googling how turn off the new “Abomination Bar.”
Then I found out the people at Mozilla have taken a page out of Apple’s book on how to force things on their users regardless of what they think and decided not to include an option to use the FF2.x algorithm.
Fortunately I was able to turn it off by going into my Control Panel, uninstalling Firefox 3.0 and then re-installing 2.0.0.1.4. Now the address bar works just like I expect it to without being inundated by irrelevant crap whenever I feel like browsing the web.
Kakkoii
For people who want the old Location Bar back. Here is an add-on for it. https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/7637 It’s quite close to replicating the old Location Bar. Future updates to the add-on should make it almost identical.
J
The Firefox 3 location bar SUCKS! AND I CAN’T EVEN DISABLE THE F’ING THING. I don’t give a damn if Mozilla thinks they know what site I’m about to go to – Maybe some of the programmer’s love to play “GUESS THE URL” with their friends and so they decided to invite us all to play with them in Firefox 3! SOUNDS LIKE FUN!!!!!!
Here.. I’ll type: “H”
You guess: “HOW DO I DISABLE THIS RIDICULOUSLY STUPID, POINTLESS, AND ANNOYING FEATURE?!???!.COM!!”
omg, you guessed right!
I never expected this kind of complete crap to churn out of the Mozilla factory. If I want to go to a bookmarked site, THEN I’LL CLICK THE BOOKMARK. If I want to go to a site that I recently visited, then I’ll CLICK THE ARROW NEXT TO THE “BACK” BUTTON. Why don’t they just fill the space in front of every character that I’m typing now with text from previously typed sentences? Who knows, maybe they’ll guess right once a week and it’ll all be worth it!
Looking very forward to the update that lets us disable this super brilliant location bar though.
The rest of FF3 is great though! : -)
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Jon
PLEASE for the love of all things good and sane in the world, PUT THE ADDRESS BAR BACK TO BEING AN ADDRESS BAR!!!!!!!!!
This new POS is just that — a piece of s***!
First off, it takes up too much space for the drop down list of previous addresses.
Secondly, it takes up too much space for displaying page titles IN the address bar itself (which only seems to happen on some sites)
Thirdly, it’s SLOWER. The more crap that a computer needs to parse thru just to display a list, the slower it’ll be. Plain and simple. Less is More! Remember that people!!!
I’m almost getting pissed enough to start telling people to NOT UPGRADE BEYOND FF2. If the people working on this ONCE GOOD product keep acting like Microsoft by changing things just for the sake of changing things and making things slower, uglier, more cluttered, and broken, then people might as well start using IE.
WarrenL
Nup, sorry Mozilla. I hate the “Awesome” bar. Like almost everybody else who has commented negatively on it I had my 2- and 3-lettered shortcuts down pat – type in “ar” and up would pop “aronline.co.uk” for example. Now I get all kinds of crap and subpages that I don’t want to know about.
Thankfully you can partially disable the function by going to about:config and setting “browser.urlbar.matchOnlyTyped” to True. And the “Oldbar” add-on appears to be doing the trick.
However that isn’t such an easy thing for the many basic users out there who would simply like to have a check box that allows them to enable/disable the function.
I dislike the way that the Firefox people unilaterally decided that everybody would love the “Awesome” bar. Bad move, fellas.
lax
Don’t like it. Jumps open and changes size, can’t control what’s on it AND can’t turn it off!
not-awesome-bar
New location bar… sucks!!!!! I hate it.. It is nothing but a regexp matcher. It brings session ids, annoying list of urls. Worst of all it searches titles of pages rather then URLs. I do not care about titles. Just because a website happens to contain the string that I typed, it comes in number one. Also the location bar is taking a huge space in the windows. I want my old location bar.
Chet Bacon
Although those at FireFox seem to delight in the new location bar features – it is one reason not to get the FF3.
It is distracting, annoying, and there should be a way to change it to the way Ver2 worked.
An old saying is – if it isn’t broke don’t fix it and if you fix it repair it so you can go back to the old way.
Not a good feature! Get off your high horses and listen to your users!
Chet
BobbE
I really like FF3 but the “Awesome Bar” is anything but awesome, frankly it’s crap and what’s worse is Mozilla is acting like Microsoft by making it a pain to undo. Somebody pay friggin’ attention to the comments.
Wiliam Savoy
ON my regular FireFox…I have the following Browsers: Webroot/ASK, followed by GOOGLE followed by Yahoo and the Address BAR…can the NEW FF3 beat this?? ….I tried and there was something rejecting the BAR ?
Horologium
The awesome bar is so awesome, that I switched to Opera. Thanks FireFox – much ado about nothing!
This sucks
This new address bar in mozilla firefox 3 blows. It keeps to many pages and its a pain in the rear. How do you get rid of this?
woulfe
I thought the new location bar was OK, but now clicking on the URLs which appear in it doesn’t work. There is simply no response.
I’m on a MacBook Pro using 10.5.3
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Cranky Luddite
Well, it appears that “enhancements” to the location bar are one of the things slated for 3.1. I don’t think that would be the case if they weren’t listening, so I’m willing to believe they are now working to satisfy users like me, who are too dumb to appreciate their vision of the future.
Kudos to them for an otherwise fine product, and for taking user concerns seriously.
LM
I really do not like this feature. It kinds of ruins everything. If I want junk search-bars I can install IE and google toolbar. I really liked FF-2 because it was plain. Why the heck can’t you disable this “feature” :-(
Trejkaz
In 3.1 they will put the entire web page in the awesome bar, and they will even include your username and password in the URLs it shows!
Cranky LudditeJuly 1st, 2008 at 5:43 pm
Well, that could certainly be one of the options. One of the ways they can save face is by making the “ultimate” bar “ultimately” configurable. Then they don’t have to admit to themselves that the main configuration applied to it is to shut the darn thing off.
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Joe
I went back to Firefox 2 and when I opened it today it did an update, from 2..14 to 2..15. I guess the realize people are sticking with 2.
JamesJuly 2nd, 2008 at 1:24 am
According to Mozilla…. “Firefox 2.0.0.x will be maintained with security and stability updates until mid-December, 2008. All users are strongly encouraged to upgrade to Firefox 3.”
PO'd UserJuly 6th, 2008 at 3:37 pm
“All users are strongly encouraged to upgrade to Firefox 3.”
No, once they stop supporting Firefox 2 I’m moving to Internet Explorer. At least it has an URL bar that works instead of FF 3’s “Aweshit Bar”
gamzon
in the existing version, i did n’t”discover any button to pass again to the preceding page, when you are in location a page (site)giving like to another page; very essentiel sometime to see again the précéding page, with version 2
you need to start again from the url memorised to reopen the gate if i am wrong please to indicate how to solve that!
thanks
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violet
Crappy implementation and is very annoying. Please make an option to turn it off. How could anyone in the right mind to design this crap. What they were thinking?
Brent
how do you keep the url bar from going thru all your bookmarks? Also how can you get it to delete all of your history? I have it set to not remember anything. Yet somehow, it does…amazing…I have the old bar install, and did the recommended tweeks but it is still a factor. Any ideas? This is a security Nightmare for me. I do not need any information I have in the Bar to be remembered at all…
Kris
AwfulBar is terrible.
@Cranky Luddite: hear, hear!
@Jeff C: You’re not the only one. There’s a reason I use Clear Private Data
@J: hehe!
Crow: (as George C. Scott in “Hardcore”) Turn it off! Turn it off!
as
I absolutely HATE the new address bar. WAY too cluttered and brings up old crap i browsed MONTHS ago! I visit Maxconsole every day, and now when I start typing Maxconsole it brings up a really old article first! Uggh and oldbar doesn’t even rework the system. This is a piece of crap addition that should have been made optional.
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Tobey
I think it’s a great new feature too, but I also would like to know if there’s a way to clear the address bar of all recorded sites from time to time since my laptop is used for both home and work related tasks.
TerrorBite
Re comment 17: “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”
Also re: comment 25 and anyone else wanting a “new tab” button:
Try middle-clicking. :) Middle-click has always been the default “Open in new tab” button in Firefox.
I have to admit, I love how feature-packed the dropdown is now. It makes finding previously visited sites so much easier. I used to have to search in my history; now, no longer. Speaking of which, I really like the new history/bookmaark manager too.
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bob
it is annoying, i know where the bookmarks are i do not need 2 locations. i do not like it i am going to change it back. why do good things have to change for the worse. example XP to Vista… grrrr
Krono
I absolutely loath the so called “awesomebar”. If I wanted something I’d bookmarked, I’d use a god damned bookmark. If I wanted to search page titles, I’d search my history directly. Hopefully you’ll fix this crap, otherwise once Firefox 2 stops being supported, I’ll have to move on to a browser that doesn’t consider a pile of crap an improvement.
Wolf
“Why don’t they just fill the space in front of every character that I’m typing now with text from previously typed sentences? Who knows, maybe they’ll guess right once a week and it’ll all be worth it!”
LOL.. I found that comment amusing.
I noticed Apple has a PC version of Safari out. Kind of sad that I’m willing to give that a go now. I was an early adopter of FF many years ago before most people even heard of it. I was really angered by the “we know better than you what you want” response from Mozilla. What a dramatic u-turn for the company.
ScottAugust 29th, 2008 at 1:20 am
I just installed Firefox 3 for the first time about an hour and a half ago. The “awesome bar” is truly horrible. I’ve spent the last hour trying to figure out how to get the old implementation back. I have concluded it can’t be done. Now I’m having to jerk around with upgrading back to Firefox 2.0.0.15. Thanks Mozilla – I enjoyed the ride – but I knew it wouldn’t last forever. Truly shameful implementation. Perhaps Microsoft has an opening for the awesome bar programmers and Mozilla can get back to its non-bloatware, hyper-configurable roots?
>>>>>>>>>>>
I can not stand this drop down box when I type in stuff. I want to completely eliminate this feature. If there is no way I will 100% switch to IE7 which is a DAMN shame. I hate IE but I would take anything over this damn annoying new feature. IT FUCKING SUCKS.
ronald clement
I think the new firefox address bar is stupid. I’ve been using it for five minutes and want to go back to firefox 2. I want the bar to act like firefox 2. there is no option to change how it works. if I can’t find one I’ll 100% remove firefox.
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andrew
i’ve been using mozilla for years but really dont like the new version… i really hate the history bar… am i the only one here??? am i right in saying it includes my bookmarks as well, i dont want them in my history, thats why they’re bookmarked…. i’ve now gone back to version 2 because of this horrible history bar
Tom
I absolutely hate the awesome bar. It is a shame you have to edit about:config to get something slightly workable that resembles FF2. It’s funny how the first few comments were how much they loved the new awesome bar and then started to get negative. I hated the awesome bar right off the bat. I mean the drop down menu takes up half the screen. The people that love it must be the ones with 10 toolbars installed. Bring back the FF2 urlbar, clean and simple and easy to delete private data when needed.
link48010
HAY, peoples who hate the bar, why can’t you just ignore the stupid bar :/. IE7 and FF2 basically have the same feature only they only sort in your history, the current bar is like a quick search between your bookmarks and your history depending on how many times you go to that page. if you don’t like it, just ignore it, I don’t see what the big issue is. I don’t like the pointless “speed dial” in opera, so I simply ignore the stupid thing…..
A userJanuary 14th, 2009 at 2:48 pm
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…
Zing
Let’s just ignore the bar where you have to type in URLs, and expect them to enter themselves! Ingenious!
Link48010September 1st, 2008 at 2:48 am
Perhaps you misunderstood what I said, you can still *type* in the address bar and simply ignore the drop down box. GO FIGURE!!! I actually didn’t think this was very difficult to figure out but evidently it takes a higher brain function to simply not pay attention to a drop down box below a text field.
KronoOctober 1st, 2008 at 11:02 pm
So we’re also supposed to ignore that it removes the previously existing functionality that is what we want from it?
awesome bar suck - ff3 suck
decided to go back to ff2
not gonna upgrade again until they let ppl choose between old and new url bar
John D.
Please add a button to turn this feature OFF. I will not upgrade until this becomes available! It seems like the Firefox developers, are starting to imitate Microsoft, like shoving something new in your mouth and expecting everyone to like the taste of it. Phooey!
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Ben
I HATE the new address bar! I depended heavily on the one from Firefox 2, and the update broke my surfing habits. I tried some add-ons to fix it, but they don’t work for me.
I’m using Google Chrome now, which is easy and comfortable, unlike FF 3.
psu
wow this new “awesome bar” sucks alot, if i cant find any way to make it like it was in the last version i will change to another browser
esq32
Awesome bar? Pathetic and snooping on my activities ala Big Brother’s brother.
C’mon, forsake your privacy for a few geegaws? Gimme a break.
Mozilla, give me back my history and ability to delete it or view it when browsing; not removing it completely with a dull bell and harsh whistle.
The removal of this horrid feature was all right, and it removed that horrid feature; but I would like to click on a past site, not two lines of it, as I did in FF2; how about? Restore that legacy feature.
rance
the address bar sucks. i cant stand it. its an address bar not a search you fucking IDIOTS. dumbest crap ive seen. get old location bar. addon. haha firefox keeps this crap up ill find another browser. so many crap things they added. after i first installed firefox3 which happenned to be before i ordered a bunch of stuff. i noticed all this crap and i really dont like firefox. its remind me of internet explorer. im not talking about a new one, or whatever, cause i havent used it in 4 years. whats that little bitchy voice. yea when htomail opens. whatever. who cares i dont use it. i first thing i done when i installed firefox 3 was i wanted to go to my history and go to a webpage i went to three days ago because i couldnt remember the address. guess what. firefox is dumber than shit. every page thats stored in history is in one page! with a search. if i remembered why wuold i need to go to history or use that fucking crap. so shitty. and i was ordering some stuff too. i knew i was on an encrypted page. i looked up and the address bar wasnt yellow. i went wtf. i went this webpage is encrypted. then i looked at the address and it was a S webpage. it was encrypted. but they decided not to have the address bar yellow. wow what a feature that is they probably are color prejudice onw. i will use another browser if they keep doing this. im sure someone can make a fun to use browser. and anything thats not from microsoft is secure. later
Joao
How do I turn it off??? I really dont want it, it may be usefull, but i really hat it!!!
bigred
I HATE THE NEW “NOT SO AWESOME BAR”. EVERY PERSON THAT I KNOW THAT USES FIREFOX 3 HAS GONE BACK TO INTERNET EXPLORER.
bigred
The designers at Firefaux don’t give a rats ass that most people think some features suck more than a barrel full of ticks. Does everyone know that now Firefox tracks every website that you visit and sends the info back to firefox. They have guys there that do nothing but spy on your browsing habits. This version is going in the TRASH where it belongs.
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crapbar
Awesome bar sucks large donkey balls. For fuck sake get rid of this shit and give us back a normal bar that doesn’t crawl though the bookmarks.
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Liny
The Awesome Bar has started redirecting me to yahoo search results once I updated Firefox. If I for example type in wikipedia instead of wikipedia.com, I’ll get search results from yahoo for wikipedia.
FF3isPOO
What is this? Seriously, what the hell is this?
Even IE is an upgrade compared to this level of stupidity. Upgrading back to FF2 for now.
Hopefully the retards are gonna fix this sometime.
FF3isPOO!
Joe
An EULA…. A “great” new feature that can’t easily be turned off…. browser bloat…. Firefox is so over.
abhi
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.
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Howie
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!
Russell
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/
Yuirorkis Gamboa
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.
Trejkaz
……..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.
Link48010
“and it also doesn’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).
Colin Brown
Using Firefox 3 is akin to sliding down razor blades with the laughably named ‘Amwesome Bar’
Trejkaz
“That’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.
Botski
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.
cocciastella
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.
Nostawyn
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.
venusvegasvada
I think the “awesome bar” sucks. I hate it. I don’t use Firefox anymore because of it.
Ethan
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
Abhijit
@ 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 !
Krishan
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.
Leo
Love it every minute. I would like that they made available the Mac skin for Windows Vista users as well.
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