Comments on: AwesomeBar is awesome

By: -=Ben=-

-=Ben=- — Tue, 15 Jul 2008 14:14:10 +0000

Customize the colors of your awesome bar based on it’s type!

Tags are Yellow
Bookmarks are Blue
History Items are Green

See the code here:
http://userstyles.org/styles/8564

Amazing UserChrome Style!

By: QB

QB — Fri, 20 Jun 2008 13:09:50 +0000

Oddly, the FF3 AwesomeBar doesn’t pull up visited URLs from my current browsing session, unlike in FF2. For instance, if I open gmail.com in the first tab, then open a second tab and type “gmail” it pulls up bookmarks that contain the word gmail, but not the URL gmail.com (which I have already visited). In fact, it doesn’t display the “gmail.com” URL even if I type gmail in the URL bar of the first tab! Am I missing something?

Also, is there a way to modify the font size of content displayed in the AwesomeBar?

By: Nilo

Nilo — Tue, 17 Jun 2008 13:15:34 +0000

Johnz is absolutely right. Blaring the titles of previously visited web pages in BIG BOLD LETTERS is a major violation of privacy.

There is an extension called “oldbar” than can somewhat overcome this problem, but such an important setting should not require an extension. It should be a built-in option.

By: W. B. Mook

W. B. Mook — Mon, 16 Jun 2008 21:49:49 +0000

Weirdly, IE 5.whatever for the Mac had a behavior like this (not the icon or the two lines, but the “matches against the page title” and I hung onto that browser for ages longer than I should have, just because it did. I’ve always been somewhat astonished that the feature hasn’t cropped up in one of the living browsers since then.

By: Johnz

Johnz — Thu, 12 Jun 2008 23:18:03 +0000

Sign, I can see how this can be really helpful. HOWEVER….there are some of use who bookmark items that we consider to be private. In other words, when I’m typing in digg.com…I don’t want Firefox to begin displaying my bookmarks that happen to have the word d@ck in them (think porn). Will there be an option to turn this feature off?

By: Cooner750

Cooner750 — Sun, 25 May 2008 09:05:23 +0000

@Jonah Dempcy:
Save the extension, rename it so it has a .zip extension instead of .xpi, extract it, open the install.rdf file in a text editor and change the Max Version property for Firefox to 3.0 (if you’re using RC1) or 3.0b5 (if you’re using Beta 5). Compress those same files back into a zip archive, rename it back to XPI, then drag and drop it into an open Firefox window.

Beware of unexpected results when doing this, as many extensions that haven’t been updated to at least be compatible with 3.0 Alpha won’t work at all.

By: Jonah Dempcy

Jonah Dempcy — Fri, 16 May 2008 17:57:52 +0000

One more reason to love Firefox 3. I’ve been Fx3 Beta for a few months now but I still do a large amount of browsing and 100% of development on Firefox 2. Why? Because I can’t figure out how to override extension max version checking in Fx3. If you can help me, I’d be grateful. :)

I can’t live without extensions like Firebug, the Web Developer Toolbar and a handful of other extensions that facilitate web development. I tried overriding max version checking by adding a flag to the internal preferences, following a tutorial for how to do it in Firefox 2, but it didn’t seem to work. Maybe the property name in the prefs has changed?

By: Byron McCollum

Byron McCollum — Tue, 06 May 2008 21:54:52 +0000

The “AwesomeBar” has an amazing amount of noise. Tone down some of the colors, you’re killing me…

By: M

Thu, 24 Apr 2008 08:42:31 +0000

Well by default it’s only holding your history for 90 days, so it won’t find stuff “from the last year” unless you have actually book marked it. At which point if you have book marked it, FF can find it forever.

You can easily set your “Keep History” to 365 days I assume, Lord only knows how much space that’ll take up though.

Great run down all the same.

ps I love Carrot cake.

By: mawrya

mawrya — Thu, 24 Apr 2008 00:14:46 +0000

It would be interesting, no Awesome, to see if there is a noticeable dip in traffic to Google after Firefox 3 and the Awesome Bar are released.