locked Ho do I disable awesome bar? It is very annoying.

Firefox version: 3.0 Operating system: Windows XP
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Marian
Firefox user

Does Firefox 3 has an option to disable awesome bar or should I stick with Firefox 2.0? Version 3 does have a lot of improvements but the awesome bar is unbearable and makes the whole browsing experience unpleasant. Tried training it for 2 weeks but without success. Hinders the browsing badly.

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Wed 18 of Jun, 2008 07:55 PST  
Sue.
Firefox user

Me too Marion, it's not awesome it's awful! This is what I did:

Enter about:config in the address bar.

Ignore dire warning, click button to carry on.

In the filter bar, enter browser.urlbar

Doubleclick browser.urlbar.matchOnlyTyped to change it to True

Doubleclick browser.urlbar.maxRichResults and you get a box pop up. Enter 0

Restart Firefox3.

Sanity returns :-)

Sue.



Wed 18 of Jun, 2008 08:56 PST  
alterna
846 posts

How to disable the Smart Location Bar



Wed 18 of Jun, 2008 09:05 PST  
mike
Firefox user

I have to second this. I've been trying to use it for 2 days now and it is nothing but a pain.



Wed 18 of Jun, 2008 10:10 PST  
Matt
Firefox user

Wow. I have never had anything but great feelings about Firefox until I downloaded 3.0 and was confronted with the terrible Smart Location Bar. The fact that they refer to it as the Awesome Bar at Mozilla is absolutely laughable to me! It is the worst thing since MSFT's new "Ribbon" in Office 2007. Come on, Firefox, you've got to make the Awful Bar a toggle! I shouldn't have to go into code to disable this!



Thu 19 of Jun, 2008 07:20 PST  
Adam
Firefox user

There's also the OldBar extension, which replaces the unAwesome bar with Firefox 2's significantly better functionality. Hopefully the devs will clue in and make the 'Awesome' Bar a deselectable default.



Thu 19 of Jun, 2008 11:20 PST  
Rich
Firefox user

Try this add-on:

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/7429



Thu 19 of Jun, 2008 14:10 PST  
Dejan
Firefox user

Suggested solutions are not satisfactory. The real problem is not the display itself, but the search algorithm: in FF2, the suggested address list consists of addresses with the DOMAIN NAMES beggining with the typed text, and it was exactly what I expect to find; in FF3, anything that CONTAINS at ANY place in the site title or address the text you typed, will be offered in the list - this is total mess and makes the address bar unusable at all!



Sat 21 of Jun, 2008 02:19 PST  
Bo
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Sat 21 of Jun, 2008 06:32 PST  
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