Re:Firefox 3 smart bar is just too smart
by ComputerGuru on Wednesday June 18, 2008 @12:03AM
(#220508)
I'd like to point out that Opera 9.5 alpha had this feature before "Mozilla went out there and tried to change things around."
Definitely. I've been using it for the past month or so and have no idea why everyone is making such a big deal out of this.
At first it was a little messy but I've gotten used to it so it's fine by me.
My problem with "awesomebar" is that while it does bring up the sites I visit often (which FF2 did, and given they're a small number of social/news sites; /., reddit, hn, facebook, nytimes, etc its not exactly difficult to list), the order they're listed gets mixed up every time I try to visit a site.
reddit.com showing up ahead of news.ycombinator.com when typing "news" for example doesn't make me like this new way of figuring out what URL to go to (guessing randomly? I'm sure there's an algorithm behind it but after using it since RC1, it still looks random to me) what URL I want when I'm typing the URL in the URL bar.