Dear Firefox 3 Developers

[kierthos]

You 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.

Comments

[egearman.livejournal.com]

get the 'oldbar' add-on. I think it only makes the urlbar look like it did under FF2, but it might do the other as well. If it doesn't, it's just going to be a 'learning' process on the part of FF3.

You may also want to set "browser.urlbar.matchOnlyTyped" in about:config to true. That should help as well.

[kierthos.livejournal.com]

I did. It works marginally to my satisfaction. I can still however, type just the letter k and have the stupid thing list sheldoncomics.com among the links suggested.

[jdack.livejournal.com]

It tends to work best based on the title of the page. So like my friends page says "kindred" so if I type 'k' it gives me that result first.

I hated it at first two but know I've gotten to like it for ease of separation between a lot of pages I visit regularly with the same starting url letters.