Change Firefox 3’s Awesome Bar back to Oldbar

June 23rd, 2008

In my last post I listed a few things that I liked and disliked about Firefox 3 which was just released June 17, 2008.

One of the most annoying new features of Firefox 3 is the “Awesome Bar“. It lists not only the URL but the page title as well which can leave your list twice as big and makes searching for the URL you want extra difficult.

Thankfully today, I found the add-on “Oldbar” which reverts the appearance of your address bar back to the way it looked in Firefox 2. It still functions the same, but without the extra messiness.

I especially love in the comments on the Oldbar add-on page where someone refers to the Awesome Bar as the “Awful bar”.

As a blogger, it’s nice to have the links you visit frequently, such as your Wordpress dashboard, traffic stats program, and RSS feed reader all in one nice neat list. I lost that for awhile, but now I got it back!

You can download the Oldbar add-on here: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/6227

I found this add-on via Lifehacker which lists some cool workarounds to customize Firefox 3 that Mozilla failed to show us.

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5 Comments Add your own

1. Rick Butts | June 24th, 2008 at 7:59 am

Hey good tip.

I Digged ya - Stumbled ya - and posted a bookmark to your post and even threw ya on my Facebook page for good measure.

There’s some link luv for ya stranger!

Rick Butts
2. Cassie | June 24th, 2008 at 4:05 pm

Wow, thanks! You are a total sweet heart
3. Gnus | June 27th, 2008 at 8:33 pm

Thanks for the tip. I was pretty annoyed by the titles too, especially since I changed my system’s font style, so the big titles look really bad.

Thumbs up and again, a digg.
4. Cassie | June 27th, 2008 at 9:03 pm

Thanks Gnus! Much appreciated

I’m LOVING my Oldbar. Turns out a lot of other people are not liking the “awful bar” either.
5. Haha! | August 12th, 2008 at 10:37 am

Here is how to disable StupidSearch feature and make bar behave like in Firefox 2.0. Type about:config, find browser.urlbar.matchOnlyTyped and set it to True.

Some HTML allowed:
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