The so-called "awesome bar" is junk. That Oldbar extension is aces. - Mark Trapp
about:config and set "browser.urlbar.maxRichResults" to 0 but it's a great feature and I love it - Dobromir Hadzhiev
maxRichResults = 0 removes any sort of completion, which is not what Kevin's looking for. Oldbar will do it, though. - Mark Trapp
it works bothways, not just for the page title btw... - chandoo
@kevin: Have you given it a chance? I found it to be quite useful once I gave it a shot. - nadim
I think it's great. Who needs bookmarks with autocomplete? - Rick Powell
Yeah, give it a chance, both of you may adapt. I was an awesomebar hater once myself. - ⓞnor
The awesomebar was one of the main reasons that I made the pre-release my default browser months ago. - Roger Benningfield
The autocompleter displays previews of my emails in gmail, even when I'm not logged in! Any way to stop it doing that? - Alex Mendes da Costa
there is an extension called something like "OldBar" that will change it back - xxdesmus via twhirl
I wonder when my brain started associating FF with FriendFeed instead of Firefox. :-/ - Erica Baker
It takes a week to get used to the new awesome bar (or better: to be able to use it efficiently), but then you wouldn't want to miss it. - sebmos
I have far, far too many pages whose title starts with 'FriendFeed' but very few URLs. - Kevin Fox
Yeah, I used to hate that autocomplete, but overtime my brain adjusted to fully love it. It took some weeks before I realized I was getting annoyed at Safari for not finding what I was looking for! - felix
Kevin, you gotta remove the FriedFeed from all your titles - bad for SEO! ;) - felix
The awesome bar is like marmite. I've learned to love it - Neil Dunn
Awesome bar is junk because webmasters SPAM titles of their site! Oldbar all the way. I've been using FF3 for more than a month and still find it annoying, because when I type "digital" I don't want to be presented with buy.com just because they have "digital cameras" in the title. Arrrgh - Max Smolev
I ignore it and just type the whole address... mainly because it's not awesome. They need it to be an "option" not the sole feature. - Enrique Gutierrez via twhirl
That's the cool thing about it: Type in the normal Url, and everything works perfectly. But if you find out how to use it more efficiently, you'll love it. I didn't realize a big change in the beginning, until I started to try it out. Now, I search my history through the awesome bar at least 50% of the time, and I love it. It helps me a big deal. Funny thing for Google Docs users: type in "new document", and the page for new documents should pop up. ;) - sebmos
But it doesn't. My standard way of navigating is to type in 'rea' and choose between 'Google Reader' and 'RealClearPolitics'. Now if I type in 'Rea' I get a list of a whole lot of sites that have 'Rea' in their page title, and the two sites I care about are much lower on the list. It works worse for me, and many people who already used the old autocomplete. If you never used the old autocomplete it's probably a lot better. - Kevin Fox
Kevin, you just have to use it a while longer. The sites you visit more frequently will bubble to the top of the list. After you've used it for a while, you'll find that it really is more powerful. (I hated it at first too.) - Brad Lauster
It's great because you can use it either way, it's just a matter of typing the right snippet & picking from the list. Type the right thing and you can usually get a very short list. And it learns when you use things frequently. - Tanath
The green url and the black title are making it hard to parse. If they make the green lighter, it'll be a lot better. - Jing Lim
You can also "search" using multiple terms too. You don't have to keep typing out a URL or title that has too many near matches. - Tanath
"I find myself thinking of a checklist Wozniak wrote a few years ago describing how to become a genius. His advice was straightforward yet strangely terrible: You must clarify your goals, gain knowledge through spaced repetition, preserve health, work steadily, minimize stress, refuse interruption, and never resist sleep when tired. This should lead to radically improved intelligence and creativity. The only cost: turning your back on every convention of social life." - Sanjeev Singh
wow, this article is fascinating (and the tips in the sidebar are helpful too: For optimal brain gain, regular tea breaks, as favored in the UK, are more effective than a 20-ounce French roast sucked down at Starbucks in lieu of breakfast.) - Adam Kazwell
"Wozniak gives close attention to the qualitative estimate of fatal risks. By graphing the acquisition of knowledge in SuperMemo, he has realized that in a single lifetime one can acquire only a few million new items. This is the absolute limit on intellectual achievement defined by death." - pretty limiting - the AIs will win :P - bob
It's funny how trivial the change was. I made a new table to story the content of a story (as a longtext) and have a foreign key from that to the actual story. The end result is filtering by date/share count and searching (because it searches on the title only which is a varchar) are like 100 times faster; Queries that used to take upwards of 6 seconds now are trivial. - Benjamin Golub
Incredibly creative musician. I remember how I did not want to like "Human Behaviour" when I first heard it in 1993 on MTV. I was a precocious teenager and into Metal - but in the end I could not resist and have liked most of her stuff ever since :) - Mustafa K. Isik
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