Comments on: Firefox Quick Tip: Fixing the New Location Bar in Firefox 3

By: Tom

Tom — Fri, 03 Oct 2008 18:57:09 +0000

Surely the sensible thing to have done was to leave the bar as it was in FF2 and provide the “awesome” bar as an add-on? That would be in keeping with the basic Firefox philosophy which has been the basis of its success.

The way forward is to revert to that situation, or to provide a simple option to use either the traditional bar or the new kiddies’ plaything. Surely it is not too difficult to design it so that the user selects one algorithm or the other.

By: Goods

Goods — Mon, 22 Sep 2008 18:11:01 +0000

I meant, the changes are NOT firefox like..

By: Goods

Goods — Mon, 22 Sep 2008 18:10:34 +0000

The new url bar is annoying. The changes are Firefox like… have you been consumed by someone else? or have the old developers left? I hate having to download safari, since I don’t want to write my rights away to Apple.

By: frank

frank — Tue, 26 Aug 2008 17:57:03 +0000

awesome bar is the most awful obstrusive rubbish I have seen.

new browser version sucks.

By: Hank Hill

Hank Hill — Sun, 22 Jun 2008 18:11:21 +0000

I downloaded FF 3 last week with excitement. After four hours of fighting the Awfulbar (with an imbecilic name like “Awesome” Bar, you know it was conceived by a creature with a mentality of an 11-year old…), I deleted this useless garbage and restored my backup of FF 2.14. And that’s what will stay on my drives.

By: Jon

Jon — Fri, 20 Jun 2008 17:25:44 +0000

@Ed
I fully agree about how the folks at Mozilla certainly seem to be striving their hardest to become just like the folks at Microsoft — hmmm… they both start with “M” — in producing bloated crappy “cutesy” browsers that are actually HARDER TO USE and SLOWER than slow.

Personally I’m considering downgrading to FF2 — which is seeming more and more like it’ll actually be an UPGRADE after I spend more and more time in this crappy world of FF3.

One of these years, or so I keep hoping, people will learn to leave well enough alone and only fix what actually is broken. Leaving the look-and-feel and functionality of good highly accepted products alone.

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Tips for Firefox 3 - EDGE3SiXTY — Thu, 19 Jun 2008 18:18:48 +0000

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By: Kakkoii

Kakkoii — Thu, 19 Jun 2008 17:27:20 +0000

Check out this extension. It’s constantly being improved to try and replicated Firefox 2’s address bar 100%. It’s not quite there yet tho. But it’s getting there

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/7637

By: Ed

Ed — Thu, 19 Jun 2008 10:27:47 +0000

The awfulbar is incredibly annoying, not having the option to switch it off without disabling some other function is incredibly arrogant of the developers.

It appears that the concept of having a good, secure and fast basic browser with user installed add-ons is sinking fast.

Firefox gets more like a Microsoft product with every release, the developers need to take a long hard look at what it is they set out to achieve and how far they have diverted from that path. They aren’t even being innovative anymore, copying the idea from others.

I suspect that the Opera download servers are going to be busy as FF2 users take a look at Opera. I have just done so and am tempted to stick with Opera for a week.

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