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.
5 comments ↓
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
Wow, thanks! You are a total sweet heart
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.
Thanks Gnus! Much appreciated
I’m LOVING my Oldbar. Turns out a lot of other people are not liking the “awful bar” either.
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.
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