Here is how to get more or less the old behavior. Go to about:config and set browser.urlbar.matchOnlyTyped to true and browser.urlbar.richResults to false. Then restart.
I would have modded you down as being inaccurate but doing so would mean that I couldn't correct the inaccuracy. So I'm passing up on the opportunity to mod you and am instead going to fix the mistake.
As of FireFox 3.0b3 browser.urlbar.richResultsno longer works [google.com]. The ability to chose your own search results style was removed by the Mozilla developers as part of bug #407836 [mozilla.org]. They're illogical viewpoint is explained in bug #403159 [mozilla.org].
And, for the record, Oldbar does not fix the problem. It does not disable the searching style introduced by FF 3.0. It only makes the results look a little more like 2.0.
According to this [zacgarrett.com] article browser.urlbar.matchOnlyTyped no longer works either. The value of browser.urlbar.matchOnlyTyped is now ignored.
It's not the GP's fault either. Dozens of articles have been published in the past few months that have old, outdated information. Even Redhat put it in their Knowledgebase [redhat.com] on 6/4. The sheer number of articles attempting to help people disable the "awesome bar" should make the developers realize that this is not a "feature" that everyone wants. I agree with the GP. I too HATE the awesome bar. It's a shame too because I would love to have the fixes for the memory leaks in FF 2.0 that don't exist but FF 3.0 addresses anyway.
I thought you guys were just whining about having to get used to a new feature, but I just tried it and I agree. This does not work at all like I want it to. Specifically, the assumption that if there is a matching bookmark then that result should show first (or it seems like that is what's happening) seems completely backwards.
New features are great. That's one of the nice things about OSS. New features make their way into OSS projects faster IMHO. However forcing the use of a new and very controversial feature is not cool. It would be one thing if they added the feature and even turned it on by default if they wanted to give people a chance to use it. It's another thing to intentionally break support for the old way of doing it. That's rather vindictive in my opinion. We rail on other companies for doing similar things. Mozilla should not be excluded from our wrath simply because they're an OSS company.
The sheer number of articles attempting to help people disable the "awesome bar" should make the developers realize that this is not a "feature" that everyone wants
It is certainly reason enough not to download it. There is enough bad manners, poor design and bloat on the web already without including more of it in the browser. From what I have read here it would be pointless to download it. Please Mozilla: faster, lighter, more rock solid with no crashes and hard to exploit, save the silly fluff-n-stuff as
It's a shame too because I would love to have the fixes for the memory leaks in FF 2.0 that don't exist but FF 3.0 addresses anyway.
Find a computer you don't need. Open Firefox, maybe browse a little, then leave Firefox open for a day. Check the memory usage at the end.
I've had Firefox (plain, vanilla, no add-ons etc) taking up hundreds of megs of memory on a windows machine from doing little other than sitting open for a couple of days (based on Task Manager's "Processes"->"Mem Usage" listing, and based on Task Manager's "Performance" tab, watching the Memory Usage History as I close Firefox).
I take it that you didn't notice that I was being sarcastic and tongue-in-cheek...:-) Yes, FF2 has horrible memory leaks. The FF devs have denied that they exist. Miraculously though somehow the FF3 devs fixed the non-existent memory leaks. See, I did it again right there. Damn I'm good.;-) For the record FF2 is consuming just shy of 500MB on my laptop right now. I had to reboot this AM when I got to work because my 2GB laptop was paging thanks to FF2 consuming just over 1.5GB. Yes, I have a lot o
The ability to chose your own search results style was removed by the Mozilla developers as part of bug #407836. They're illogical viewpoint is explained in bug #403159. [...] The sheer number of articles attempting to help people disable the "awesome bar" should make the developers realize that this is not a "feature" that everyone wants.
It just means I'll skip FF3. FF2 will last for a long while. If they stop patching FF2, at least I know IE7 gets patches and doesn't have an "Awesome" bar, so I'll fire up my windows VM to surf the web at that point. Hmm, anyone know if IceWeasel will include awesome bar choice? I might switch to the Weeezzul.
I totally understand your use case, and why this change makes that task
considerably more difficult. However, I'm pushing for this change based on the
notion that all of the various people who have told me that Firefox is their
favorite search engine don't scan a list of URLs, nor do they make a navigation
decision based on the URL itself.
Essentially what we are debating here is a fundamental change in what the
location bar is for, from purely a widget for directly entering URLs, to being
a local search engine for content you have seen on the Web (which happens to
also display URLs).
The developers' position is that Firefox should be morphed into a search engine. I thought the point of Firefox was to remove bloat and applications that don't belong in browsers. Otherwise, we'd still be using vanilla Mozilla. It almost seems like this dev thinks every browser should be its own spider and archive.org.
Yeah, they don't make much sense. As far as the Awesome Bar goes, the address bar, location bar, URL bar is apparently no longer used for addresses, locations or URLs. Go figure.
That's kind of what I'm thinking too. I really want the FF3 features, minus the awesome-cluster-of-a-bar. It irks me that an OSS project is pulling crap like this. I'm even a financial supporter of Mozilla. I helped pay for their massive NYT marketing campaign. Let me rephrase that: I was a financial supported of Mozilla. I don't really want to go to Opera but I might have to. I'm an old Apple guy so there's always Safari but I don't really want to do that either. I just wish that Mozilla would sla
It seems you're working with out-of-date information. I just ran a few tests myself and browser.urlbar.matchOnlyTyped isn't ignored.
As a test of that, I visited 'www.gamepolitics.com', 'www.gamespot.com', and 'www.addictinggames.com' via typing the url into the bar. Opening a new tab, I typed "game" into the bar - all three websites were displayed. I then set browser.urlbar.matchOnlyTyped to 'True' and restarted Firefox. Typing 'game' then only listed the two urls that started with 'game' - i.e. 'www.add
I think the confusion may have arisen because the name is misleading. If you set it, it will still match titles and bookmarks (which you didn't type), but it will no longer match urls that you didn't type (which makes it behave less like the old firefox).
As of next Tuesday, C will be flushed in favor of COBOL.
Please update your programs.
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As of FireFox 3.0b3 browser.urlbar.richResults no longer works [google.com]. The ability to chose your own search results style was removed by the Mozilla developers as part of bug #407836 [mozilla.org]. They're illogical viewpoint is explained in bug #403159 [mozilla.org].
And, for the record, Oldbar does not fix the problem. It does not disable the searching style introduced by FF 3.0. It only makes the results look a little more like 2.0.
According to this [zacgarrett.com] article browser.urlbar.matchOnlyTyped no longer works either. The value of browser.urlbar.matchOnlyTyped is now ignored.
It's not the GP's fault either. Dozens of articles have been published in the past few months that have old, outdated information. Even Redhat put it in their Knowledgebase [redhat.com] on 6/4. The sheer number of articles attempting to help people disable the "awesome bar" should make the developers realize that this is not a "feature" that everyone wants. I agree with the GP. I too HATE the awesome bar. It's a shame too because I would love to have the fixes for the memory leaks in FF 2.0 that don't exist but FF 3.0 addresses anyway.
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It is certainly reason enough not to download it. There is enough bad manners, poor design and bloat on the web already without including more of it in the browser. From what I have read here it would be pointless to download it. Please Mozilla: faster, lighter, more rock solid with no crashes and hard to exploit, save the silly fluff-n-stuff as
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It's a shame too because I would love to have the fixes for the memory leaks in FF 2.0 that don't exist but FF 3.0 addresses anyway.
Find a computer you don't need. Open Firefox, maybe browse a little, then leave Firefox open for a day. Check the memory usage at the end.
I've had Firefox (plain, vanilla, no add-ons etc) taking up hundreds of megs of memory on a windows machine from doing little other than sitting open for a couple of days (based on Task Manager's "Processes"->"Mem Usage" listing, and based on Task Manager's "Performance" tab, watching the Memory Usage History as I close Firefox).
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The ability to chose your own search results style was removed by the Mozilla developers as part of bug #407836. They're illogical viewpoint is explained in bug #403159. [...] The sheer number of articles attempting to help people disable the "awesome bar" should make the developers realize that this is not a "feature" that everyone wants.
It just means I'll skip FF3. FF2 will last for a long while. If they stop patching FF2, at least I know IE7 gets patches and doesn't have an "Awesome" bar, so I'll fire up my windows VM to surf the web at that point. Hmm, anyone know if IceWeasel will include awesome bar choice? I might switch to the Weeezzul.
Re:Correction to the GPs post (Score:5, Insightful)
Essentially what we are debating here is a fundamental change in what the location bar is for, from purely a widget for directly entering URLs, to being a local search engine for content you have seen on the Web (which happens to also display URLs).
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As a test of that, I visited 'www.gamepolitics.com', 'www.gamespot.com', and 'www.addictinggames.com' via typing the url into the bar. Opening a new tab, I typed "game" into the bar - all three websites were displayed. I then set browser.urlbar.matchOnlyTyped to 'True' and restarted Firefox. Typing 'game' then only listed the two urls that started with 'game' - i.e. 'www.add
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