Firefox 3 AwesomeBar

[mike ledoux]

On Wed, Jun 18, 2008 at 03:04:37AM +0000, VirginSnow at vfemail.net wrote:
> It seems like it'd be a step forward... maybe an example would help:
> 
>   Say I'm looking for something called "gnhlug", but its URL is
>   http://www.gnhlug.org/
> 
> Typing "gnhl" in the NEW address bar would get me
> "http://www.gnhlug.org/", among other URLs.  Typing "gnhl" in the OLD
> address bar wouldn't do squat.  You'd have to type "www" into the old
> address bar... and that would return everything starting with "www"
> (i.e., half the universe).  So, you end up having to type "www.gnhl"
> to get where you want to be.  Extra typing.  Bad.

Except that's not the way it works, in FF1.5 on my work machine, or
FF2.0 at home.  In both cases, typing 'gnh' in the address bar pulls
http://www.gnhlug.org out of the history just fine.

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