I’ve gone so far as to increase my history storage to a full year. It’s absolutely worth it
Don't forget to pay attention to your places.sqlite file. It can grow to enormous size (Bug 395299)
Bruce A
· 1 year ago
There's a lot I love about FF3, but that new "smart" bar isn't one of them. It doesn't fit the way I WANT to use Firefox. Is it possible to use the FF2-style location bar?
oldbar
· 1 year ago
Here you go Bruce A: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/... I *truly* hated that old version and actually had disabled it via userChrome.css because having to parse in my head entire urls and trying to recall if that was indeed the full link to a particular page I was after was more trouble than it was worth. But within a day of trying out the adaptive learning of the awesome bar I was completely addicted to it :)
Bruce A
· 1 year ago
Hey, thanks!
Fabio Cevasco
· 1 year ago
Thanks for the recap. Personally, the AwesomeBar truly stands out from competition (namely Opera), as I pointed out myselt (http://www.h3rald.com/blog/thoughts-on-firefox3...). Overall, Firefox 3 is much, much more usable, fast and "smart" than its predecessor.
Kudos to you, the Dev Team and the whole community!
James
· 1 year ago
I love the awesome bar - BUT, and this is a big BUT...
I don't like it showing my history to anyone that uses my computer, all huge, nicely organized and impossible to miss. Occasionally I use my laptop for presentations projected in front of a group of clients. When I type a URL that starts with "W" I'd rather not have the 10 WoW websites that I visit come up for the world to see. I also don't want to have to dump my entire history before every presentation (that would mute the point of the bar). Or have to REMEMBER to have to dump my entire history before giving a presentation. If there was a way to blacklist specific URLS from appearing in the bar, it would be flawless.
Visit youPORN.com in FF3, then imagine a co-worker typing in a youTUBE.com or yahoo.com address (or any other domain name that starts with a "y") and seeing what you've been up to lately. I'm just saying, great feature - but a URL blacklisting feature should be in there, no doubt.
Unless there is already such a feature. If so, let me know!
Solution
· 1 year ago
If you dont want that, type in the adress box: about:config
Then look for the variable: browser.urlbar.maxRichResults
Change the value to: -1
And you wont have an embarassing situation anymore
Roberta
· 1 year ago
@James Just setup 2 different profiles....
Deuce
· 1 year ago
For real James, just set up another profile and have fun. No stress.
I was not one of the million that new the 3.0 came out. So, I get to read reviews before updating. Must say, I like the changes. I was one not to use History too often, since it was almost impossible to locate the site I saw yesterday in that jumbled mess. But now, with the Awesome Bar, it works great. And, since I have 2 profiles (James :-) I really don't have to worry about bookmarking.
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Don't forget to pay attention to your places.sqlite file. It can grow to enormous size (Bug 395299)
I *truly* hated that old version and actually had disabled it via userChrome.css because having to parse in my head entire urls and trying to recall if that was indeed the full link to a particular page I was after was more trouble than it was worth.
But within a day of trying out the adaptive learning of the awesome bar I was completely addicted to it :)
Overall, Firefox 3 is much, much more usable, fast and "smart" than its predecessor.
Kudos to you, the Dev Team and the whole community!
I don't like it showing my history to anyone that uses my computer, all huge, nicely organized and impossible to miss. Occasionally I use my laptop for presentations projected in front of a group of clients. When I type a URL that starts with "W" I'd rather not have the 10 WoW websites that I visit come up for the world to see. I also don't want to have to dump my entire history before every presentation (that would mute the point of the bar). Or have to REMEMBER to have to dump my entire history before giving a presentation. If there was a way to blacklist specific URLS from appearing in the bar, it would be flawless.
Visit youPORN.com in FF3, then imagine a co-worker typing in a youTUBE.com or yahoo.com address (or any other domain name that starts with a "y") and seeing what you've been up to lately. I'm just saying, great feature - but a URL blacklisting feature should be in there, no doubt.
Unless there is already such a feature. If so, let me know!
about:config
Then look for the variable:
browser.urlbar.maxRichResults
Change the value to:
-1
And you wont have an embarassing situation anymore
Just setup 2 different profiles....
I was not one of the million that new the 3.0 came out. So, I get to read reviews before updating. Must say, I like the changes. I was one not to use History too often, since it was almost impossible to locate the site I saw yesterday in that jumbled mess. But now, with the Awesome Bar, it works great. And, since I have 2 profiles (James :-) I really don't have to worry about bookmarking.