Comments on: 9 tweaks for Firefox 3’s location bar

By: Looie

Looie — Fri, 28 Nov 2008 04:14:18 +0000

Thanks for this. Glad I’m not the only one who thinks the not-so-AwesomeBar sucks.

By: Firefox 3 - AwesomeBar hacks « My own scribblings

Firefox 3 - AwesomeBar hacks « My own scribblings — Thu, 13 Nov 2008 17:06:33 +0000

[...] I got the above two tweaks from here. This page has got more tweaks which I haven’t tested [...]

By: Michael Jacobsen

Michael Jacobsen — Fri, 10 Oct 2008 01:26:32 +0000

You got searchery’s url wrong: it’s https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/7615

By: Percy Cabello

Percy Cabello — Tue, 23 Sep 2008 15:47:23 +0000

Yes it is normal. Just rename userChrome-example.css, add the code, save and restart Firefox to apply the changes.

By: Glenn Evans

Glenn Evans — Sun, 21 Sep 2008 18:48:44 +0000

I wanted to try a couple of these FF3.0 tweaks. But after several minutes of searching, I was forced to the realization that I just don’t have a userChrome.css file anywhere on the hard drives of any of my 3 mach’s. All I could find were userChrome-example.css files.
Is this normal?

By: Temp

Temp — Wed, 10 Sep 2008 02:30:58 +0000

Does anyone else have problems with the first weak, getting rid of the bookmarks appearing? I’ve tried the matchOnlyTyped thing and set it to true, but my bookmarks still show up. Help, please?

By: Janis

Janis — Sun, 07 Sep 2008 17:23:54 +0000

Omg, I love you! Thanks. I couldn’t find anyway to delete the urls I typed in.

By: Maryanne

Maryanne — Sat, 06 Sep 2008 03:18:17 +0000

Thank you so much for this! I used the first 3 tweaks and now it’s exactly how I like it.

By: Tex

Tex — Wed, 03 Sep 2008 03:48:02 +0000

In reply to Fred Mertz: I totally agree with him. Why is it someone has to “improve” a well working simple system to the point of absurdity.

“All this new stuff sucks. It’s typical geek junk that turns off so many ordinary users from open-source or collective-designed software.
They had a good thing and they overcomplicated it.
I am just furious about this.”
Me Too!
Please-please bring back the old system or at least give us the choice.

By: Thor

Thor — Sun, 31 Aug 2008 05:34:48 +0000

Thank you!! I don’t need my porn searches displayed every time I use the location bar

Thank you

By: EddieBear

EddieBear — Sat, 30 Aug 2008 22:48:15 +0000

about:config

browser.urlbar.maxRichResults

(default = 12, change it to whatever you want; I use 20.)

Don’t know about the “star” query.

By: Dreadnought

Dreadnought — Thu, 28 Aug 2008 20:35:36 +0000

In reply, you want to do the 3rd tweak listed and set the number of results to 0 and it won’t drop down anything when you type it, so you don’t have to worry about anything dropping down for people to see.

By: Dreadnought

Dreadnought — Thu, 28 Aug 2008 20:34:08 +0000

Yeah, I didn’t like the address bar to drop down some of the more…sensitive….addresses and such, so, I tried the first one and that didn’t help, so I just set the number of results that it shows to 0 and it doesn’t do that drop down thing! Sweet, tons of help from mozillalinks.org

By: Hexagonal

Hexagonal — Thu, 28 Aug 2008 18:37:57 +0000

I revile the new features. They are utterly detestable. Repulsive. Ill-conceived and ill-executed. Dumbly defaulted. Worthy of Microsoft.

I set browser.urlbar.maxRichResults to 0 immediately. Repulsive thumb-twiddling punks with too much time on their hands, don’t give us “features” that downgrade a product.

Even thinking about the 10 minutes it took to find out how to fix the problem makes my blood boil. Those damn Moz Punks. The hell with ‘em.

By: bob

bob — Thu, 28 Aug 2008 13:23:28 +0000

As previously reported, tweak #1 does not work as advertised. For the programmers reference… I am using xp pro for an os. Despite installing the ‘oldbar’ and implementing tweak#1 I still get history items listed in the pull down. This is enough to end my days with firefox… too bad, it was good while it lasted. Maybe it will get fixed before I completely abandon mozilla :(

By: Austin

Austin — Thu, 28 Aug 2008 02:50:14 +0000

Thank you so much! It was aggravating to see my bookmarks always popping up whenever I started typing a web address, and this solved my problem. Excellent article!

By: eVaLyN

eVaLyN — Tue, 19 Aug 2008 01:02:31 +0000

Pls. help i want to delete completely all i have been typed in the address bar. I done the Tweaks #1 or making Shift+ Del on every address but when i restart Firefox, it does not change any affect. I guess I’m not doing the right thing.

By: Firefox 3.0 and the awesome bar??? - ABXZone Computer Forums

Firefox 3.0 and the awesome bar??? - ABXZone Computer Forums — Mon, 18 Aug 2008 12:37:21 +0000

[...] from 12 to 0. Restart Firefox to show the changes. Hi Baehemoth, I found a solution here too! 9 tweaks for Firefox 3’s location bar - Mozilla Links Thanks NBK __________________ Processor: Intel Core 2 Duo E8400 3.0GHz****RAM: G.Skill [...]

By: red

red — Sun, 17 Aug 2008 20:00:06 +0000

I honestly can’t understand how someone could ever like the new location bar autocomplete.
I sometimes get results which do not contain -any- of the typed characters while i know that the one i’m looking for is in there, somewhere.
Sometimes i can get it to work by first typing in ‘www.’
Sometimes it works, kindof, and does show the url i was looking for, but at the same times shows urls that again do not contain any characters i have typed. It shows those results -before- the one i was looking for so i still have to sif through the list (which has become realy weird with all the highlighting and bold stuff.)

For me it has become one of the downsides of using Mozilla….

By: Sara

Sara — Fri, 15 Aug 2008 23:07:28 +0000

Hi, I not only have no “go bar” but when i type in a new address that I’ve not visited before, and then hit “enter” … nothing happens. It’s like my “enter” bar has no effect. Ever hear of this one? Between this development and being “lucky” enough to be selected for the horrendous new iGoogle experiment from hell, I am so frustrated I could cry.

If you are able to provide any ideas/fixes, please “dumb them down” for me - I’m no net noob, but I’m no expert either. I just want my web to work. Thanks in advance.

By: Do you like the awesome bar? - Mozilla Links

Do you like the awesome bar? - Mozilla Links — Wed, 13 Aug 2008 19:40:35 +0000

[...] its look or takes too much space. Or because they found confusing the change fo behavior. There are some workarounds available and Firefox 3.1 will provide more customization, but still this could be not [...]

By: Andy

Andy — Wed, 13 Aug 2008 10:46:50 +0000

Sorry but the above tips to remove the crappy ff3 URL bar don’t work!! Why doesn’t Firefox release an official waty of doing this as I can see there are heaps of people that hate it. Seriously - who remembers sites based upon their title?? Duh….no one!

By: Eric

Eric — Sat, 02 Aug 2008 12:54:50 +0000

Finally! Thanks for this article. I have been looking everywhere for an off button for this “feature” but couldn’t find any. FF3 is great for the most part, but this new address bar drives me crazy. There are many reasons why you would not want to broadcast your bookmarks to whoever happens to stand next to you.

Although the feature may be useful in some situations it is also very much a privacy issue. It really should have an off switch that a normal user easily can manage, i.e. without digging into about:config etc.

By: Paul

Paul — Tue, 22 Jul 2008 16:11:20 +0000

In my XP setup, the address bar won’t remember ANYTHING I have typed in manually and the drop down menu just shows 2 links from the many in my bookmarks menu. This is completely screwed.

By: -=Ben=-

-=Ben=- — Wed, 09 Jul 2008 16:23:24 +0000

Check out my countless userstyles for the Awesome Bar and more here:
http://userstyles.org/users/7858