Firefox 3 AwesomeBar

Coleman Kane cokane at cokane.org
Wed Jun 18 14:40:47 EDT 2008


On Wed, 2008-06-18 at 12:19 -0400, Ben Scott wrote:
> On Wed, Jun 18, 2008 at 11:34 AM, Coleman Kane <cokane at cokane.org> wrote:
> > Try: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/6227
> 
>   Aware of OldBar; indeed, I noted it in my original post.  ;-)
> 
>   FYI: OldBar changes the look back to the one-line-per-match format.
> It doesn't change the behavior.  The "about:config" tweaks I posted
> modify that behavior to be more like FF 2.x, although it is not exact.
> 
>   BTW, there have been 4000+ additional downloads of OldBar since last
> night, so apparently I'm not the only one who prefers the old way.
> 
>   For the record, I've got no problem with people who prefer the
> AwesomeBar, or even making it the default.  The main reason I'm pissed
> is there is apparently no way to opt-out of the new style, and the
> developers just dismissed complaints out-of-hand.
> 
> > BTW, it [AwesomeBar] is expected to somewhat suck at first. After you've been
> > regularly using it for about a week ...
> 
>   Are the specifics of its behavior documented somewhere?  If I knew
> how it work, maybe I could adapt my habits to it.  (Although 5 or so
> years of muscle memory are hard to un-learn.)
> 
> -- Ben

Maybe this helps?

http://developer.mozilla.org/en/docs/Places:Awesomebar

-- 
Coleman Kane
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