What's new in Firefox 3.5

Re:What's new in Firefox 3.5 by catch23 on Friday May 01, 2009 @02:09AM (#588162)

There are firefox extensions that turn it into a normal entry box, although personally I love the awesome bar. I can't switch to any other browser now because I hate having to type out the whole url all the time. I can just type "hac" in my toolbar to go to hacker news.

FYI, in IE8, typing "hac" in the url bar sends you to a google search on "hac". In Safari, you end up at http://hac.com.

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Re:What's new in Firefox 3.5 by FooBarWidget on Friday May 01, 2009 @03:34AM (#588223)

Seconded. The awesomebar is one of the best Firefox features.

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Re:What's new in Firefox 3.5 by quoderat on Saturday May 02, 2009 @04:26AM (#589680)

How does anyone actually tolerate the awesome bar? When it debuted, I thought it was some kind of prank.

I still kinda do.

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Re:What's new in Firefox 3.5 by johnyzee on Friday May 01, 2009 @05:59AM (#588308)

You can also just type 'n' (if, like for me, HN is one of your most frequently visited sites).

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Re:What's new in Firefox 3.5 by Hexstream on Friday May 01, 2009 @08:59AM (#588426)

I can already do this with Firefox 2.0 (Firefox 3.0 from the Ubuntu repository crashed for me when I installed a new version of Ubuntu so I had to downgrade Firefox).

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