OneAndOneIs2

Been a while eh?

Firefox 3 is apparantly less bloated and apparantly doesn't take a long time to start up and use all your RAM.

It does seem to be a little quicker.... As to the address bar, you can change the number of offered URLs with a quick change in about:config or there is a plugin you can get which will revert it to the old bar.

Um, I dunno either. Let me know when you know, eh? ;)

I think you're just supposed to coo and woo over the f*cking awesomebar. (I hate it. I hate it hate it hate it.)

And ray, if you know how to revert it to the old bar, not just revert its style to the style of the old bar (meaning that it will stop taking the whole page and trying to burn your retinas but will still offer addresses from your bookmarks, which is more than mildly annoying the day one of your personal bookmarks pops up in front of a work colleague ‒ my solution: create a work profile, and it bothers the hell out of me to use it), please share!

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/6227 - the oldbar extension gives you back the address bar from Firefox 2
http://mozillalinks.org/wp/2007/12/reduce-firefox-3-location-bar-autocomplete-menu/ - is a way to reduce the number of selections offered
http://mozillalinks.org/wp/2008/06/9-tweaks-for-firefox-3s-location-bar/ - gives you 9 tweaks that you can make to the bar

Hope these help!

Ray > The first tip from your third link allowed me to stop yelling at the browser. Thanks so much!

The invoice will be in the post ;o)

The awesome bar can increase productivity if you learn how to use it I think.

An example: to view which of my friends are currently on xbox live, I used to

1. goto the address bar (click it or alt+d)
2. type in live.xbox.com, hit enter
3. wait for page to load ...
4. click on 'friends'
5. wait for friends page to load...

with the awesome bar, i can drop a few steps

1. goto awesome bar (click or alt+d)
2. start typing 'xbox friends', then go down to the first entry (it will find it in the page title) and hit enter
3. wait for friends page to load...

I use a program loader (Find and Run Robot) kind of like Quicksilver or Launchy, so I'm typically in the mindset of typing a few key words and then being presented with the resource or application I'm wanted to get to. :-)

Firefox 3, to me, corrects the problems I usually have with firefox, mainly the initial load up time and the RAM footprint. Firefox 3 loads much much faster and for that, mozilla, I <3 U.

RAM. That alone does it for me. From 89MB at about:blank startup page in FF2 to 25MB for the same thing in FF3... yeah, it's better. There's all sorts of little fixes, but the thing already had more than enough features, now that it slimmed down, I get the same stuff for less. Works for me.