Dear Firefox 3 Developers
Aug. 31st, 2008 08:51 amYou are FUCKING MORONS.
Let me explain.
In Firefox 2, if I went to a blank address bar, and typed in the letter 'p' and nothing else, it would show links to websites that started with the letter p that I had visited since the last time I cleared the browser history.
pvponline.com
penny-arcade.com
and so forth.
If I typed in the letter 's':
somethingpositive.net
sluggy.com
sinfest.net
and so forth.
Now?
If I type in the letter 'p', I get, among the results,
en.wikipedia.com/wiki/Main_Page
Apparently, because the letter 'p' appears in the web address.
It gets better. Until I changed a couple of settings, I was also getting my LJ friends page listed. Which, of course, doesn't have the letter 'p' in it at all.
Every work around or add-on that I can find right now doesn't fully address this problem... namely, that if I start to type in an address, I expect to see things that START with that address, not things that just happen to have that same whatever in their address.
The so-called Awesome Bar... it is not so awesome.
Let me explain.
In Firefox 2, if I went to a blank address bar, and typed in the letter 'p' and nothing else, it would show links to websites that started with the letter p that I had visited since the last time I cleared the browser history.
pvponline.com
penny-arcade.com
and so forth.
If I typed in the letter 's':
somethingpositive.net
sluggy.com
sinfest.net
and so forth.
Now?
If I type in the letter 'p', I get, among the results,
en.wikipedia.com/wiki/Main_Page
Apparently, because the letter 'p' appears in the web address.
It gets better. Until I changed a couple of settings, I was also getting my LJ friends page listed. Which, of course, doesn't have the letter 'p' in it at all.
Every work around or add-on that I can find right now doesn't fully address this problem... namely, that if I start to type in an address, I expect to see things that START with that address, not things that just happen to have that same whatever in their address.
The so-called Awesome Bar... it is not so awesome.