FireFox3 or FireFox2?

[eldacar]

IchBinâ,,¢, you must have an itty bitty screen then. It doesn't take up much on mine. I wonder if you can reduce the number of URLs it shows...

[Lord Anubis]

I like FF3, but the url bar is distracting when typing in it and trying to find the site you want to go to

other than that,

- faster
- less crashing
- not as much of a resource hog

not bad IMO

[IchBin]

IchBinâ,,¢, you must have an itty bitty screen then. It doesn't take up much on mine. I wonder if you can reduce the number of URLs it shows...

I have a 24 inch wide screen. I'm not referring to the amount of space that it takes. I referring to the amount of crap in the text when it pops up. Its hard to even focus on what they've put into it. If they're going to put something like that into the bar, then they better make it easy on the eyes and organized. They way it looks now, is a mess.

[eldacar]

I have a 24 inch wide screen. I'm not referring to the amount of space that it takes. I referring to the amount of crap in the text when it pops up. Its hard to even focus on what they've put into it. If they're going to put something like that into the bar, then they better make it easy on the eyes and organized. They way it looks now, is a mess.

What do you mean? It shows the URL, the page title, and the favicon. It shows the same amount of info as FF2 does, except it now puts the page title first and the URL on a new line. And as they're showing fewer URLs at once, it probably takes the same space.

[IchBin]

I have a 24 inch wide screen. I'm not referring to the amount of space that it takes. I referring to the amount of crap in the text when it pops up. Its hard to even focus on what they've put into it. If they're going to put something like that into the bar, then they better make it easy on the eyes and organized. They way it looks now, is a mess.

What do you mean? It shows the URL, the page title, and the favicon. It shows the same amount of info as FF2 does, except it now puts the page title first and the URL on a new line. And as they're showing fewer URLs at once, it probably takes the same space.

Not even close to taking up the same space, even showing the same amount of URL's. Attached are two pics. One of the oldbar, and one of the newbar. Its clear, that the oldbar is MUCH more readable and easy on the eyes. Not to mention it takes up half the space. Besides, who ever paid attention to page titles? lol

[eldacar]

Ahh, maybe there's a diffference with the Linux or Ubuntu build, as my awesomebar never shows more than 6 pages.

And page titles do help, especially if you want to visit different websites whose URLs start the same. With the old urlbar there was no way to have a unique 2 or 3 letter reference for different pages on the same domain, or with similar domains, and so you either had to scroll to the correct page or click on it. With the awesome bar I can refer to the page title's too, so it's far easier to get to specific facebook pages, or choose between sm.org and the new simple portal site. To get to simple portal I can now type in por+tab+enter rather than sim+scroll down a little+enter.

[IchBin]

Strange. Mine shows 12 on both my Windows and Mac machine. No matter though, it all comes down to personal preference. But I do find it much easier to click on a bookmark than rather to type a title like that. lol

[JPDeni]

Is this one of those things where it thinks it knows what you want and fills it in for you? I hate those things. I turn that function off -- when I can -- whenever I run into it. It's like having a conversation where somebody finishes your sentences for you. 

Buttons and bookmarks are a whole lot easier.

[Ianedres]

That is exactly what I don't like. Auto-suggest or whatever name you call it, it hinders me when it starts guessing, because my feeble mind is on one train of thought, then that crap pops up, and whoosh! I'm trying to remember what it was I was typing.

A list of static terms (states/color sets/etc) is one thing; something like site addresses is too dynamic for me. Plus, it always seems like a kludge to work in some future advertising.

[eldacar]

It's not an auto-suggest, it's working from your history, so it will only show you what you've been to before. It also gets smarter the more you use it, so that what it shows you is more sensible. It learns to associate certain webpages with certain queries.

Buttons and bookmarks are slower in my experience...

I really doubt it has anything to do with advertising, it is FOSS remember... it's actually an experiment in something called "graphical keyboard user interface". Normal graphical mouse UIs are usually easy to use, but much slower than keyboard UIs. Keyboard UIs are hard to use because there's usually no feedback, you have to remember some arbitrary key comination and hope it's the correct one. The awesome bar is an experiment in combining the two: have the speed of a keyboard UI with the feedback and usability of a graphical UI.