Comments on: AwesomeBar is awesome

By: Tim Romano

Tim Romano — Thu, 17 Sep 2009 14:28:34 +0000

The location bar intelligent search takes a long time on my Firefox because I do not routinely clear history, and I’ve been using FF for several years as my main browser. So most times, the location search is a PITA because my keystrokes die as FF is searching the history–severe lag–even though I have a fast PC. However, there ARE times when I do want to use FF’s memory of sites I visited. The location history iintelligent search could be a very awesome feature if there were a *toggle button* near the location bar that would let me turn the search on/off at will (i.e. not a general Preferences setting, which is cumbersome to change on-the-fly).

By: seybernetx

seybernetx — Sat, 18 Jul 2009 15:25:28 +0000

For whatever it might matter to you all…

I tried to use that link to that ginger cake recipe (http://www.cooksillustrated.com/recipe?recipids=2098) that dria supposedly found in this post. It gave me a ‘The page you are trying to view is currently unavailable’ message.

That, combined with the implication that dria actually keeps a full year’s browser history, leads me to wonder how real this example actually is.

By: James Grosser

James Grosser — Sun, 28 Jun 2009 02:19:26 +0000

How do you clear off a bookmark URL that you do not want displayed

By: Karthi

Karthi — Tue, 31 Mar 2009 16:07:10 +0000

I really love this idea.. I always wanted to have such feature from many a years.. This replaces Google web history search..
I also wanted to add my history( of some days or hours) to added to Favoirtes if I require.
Hmm.. still Bookmark management can be intellgent to group the sites through tags or meta data..

By: Ande

Ande — Mon, 25 Aug 2008 16:35:11 +0000

I would like to see this AwesomeBar be a seperate entity on screen.

ie: Put an AwesomeBar permenently at the top of the screen and have a window with tabs in it seperate from it.

By: Kabonfootprint

Kabonfootprint — Tue, 19 Aug 2008 08:01:10 +0000

AwesomeBar really made my life easier, no need to open bookmark, no need to search for history. Just simply type and enter. Love it, love it very much thank you!

By: Billy2

Billy2 — Mon, 18 Aug 2008 18:47:42 +0000

billy how do i get to a particular browser instance with one click, visually seeing which browser window i want to click on to save me time before moving my mouse to the task bar using your method.

…Just curious.

By: -=Ben=-

-=Ben=- — Tue, 15 Jul 2008 15:14:10 +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: -=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 14:09:50 +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: 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 14:15:34 +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: 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 01:14:46 +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.

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.

By: Robin

Robin — Wed, 23 Apr 2008 21:19:36 +0000

I love the idea… hate the name. Is there a less lame term for the “awesomebar”? How about the “navtasticbar” or the “BarEssentials”?

“AwesomeBar” sounds like something that should have nougat in it.

By: Robin

Robin — Wed, 23 Apr 2008 20:19:36 +0000

I love the idea… hate the name. Is there a less lame term for the “awesomebar”? How about the “navtasticbar” or the “BarEssentials”?

“AwesomeBar” sounds like something that should have nougat in it.

By: Jean Azzopardi

Jean Azzopardi — Wed, 23 Apr 2008 19:08:00 +0000

Been using it a bit..lovely feature. I wouldn’t call it life changing but it does making searching bookmarks that much easier! 9/10 for this new release overall!

By: Jason

Jason — Wed, 23 Apr 2008 18:07:26 +0000

Tell Microsoft and Apple to start the photocopiers.

By: Jason

Jason — Wed, 23 Apr 2008 17:07:26 +0000

Tell Microsoft and Apple to start the photocopiers.

By: Stennie

Stennie — Wed, 23 Apr 2008 13:49:11 +0000

I get the feeling that Billy doesn’t use a dresser with drawers, he just simply throws all of his clothes into one large basket and claims superiority to his method.

By: bharadwaj parthasarathy

bharadwaj parthasarathy — Tue, 22 Apr 2008 09:35:23 +0000

Heh deb,

first time out here. nice to see a very useful bar. But i am bit concerned about a few things.

Do we need two lines? It takes up a lot of space. i see that people are already reverting back to the url style to firefox2 in firefox3. There is a small hack, i guess you can post about that too.

Also i use my bar for a google smart search, for instance, i used to type in "java hashtable" to go directly to the java docs page. Is the search feature still there?
I need this search feature more than any thing else.

I Do not hurt the web.. :-)

By: bharadwaj parthasarathy

bharadwaj parthasarathy — Tue, 22 Apr 2008 08:35:23 +0000

Heh deb,

first time out here. nice to see a very useful bar. But i am bit concerned about a few things.

Do we need two lines? It takes up a lot of space. i see that people are already reverting back to the url style to firefox2 in firefox3. There is a small hack, i guess you can post about that too.

Also i use my bar for a google smart search, for instance, i used to type in “java hashtable” to go directly to the java docs page. Is the search feature still there?
I need this search feature more than any thing else.

I Do not hurt the web.. :-)

By: Billy

Billy — Mon, 21 Apr 2008 04:36:51 +0000

Just like tabbed browsing, this will be another annoyance that needs to be turned off immediately. Why reinvent the wheel and add more tabs (taking up more vertical real estate) when the Windows taskbar already does it for you? Some people with brains need to be put in charge of FF.