Awesome Bar Haters, Report Here.

It's not simple enough to scan through results - I recognize sites by URL, that's why I'm using the address bar to get back to where I was, if I want the title of the page, I'll use Google - which is - right next to the address bar. Seems redundant, seems clunky, seems cumbersome. Want to make Awesome? Do it to the search box.

definitely redundant, clunky and cumbersome - well said

all i need is auto-complete for URLs I'm trying to type, not some crazy ass search based on my prefixes

No problem associated with the new look&feel but frustrated with its behavior.
Just a couple of minutes using it and you can easily perceive that you take more time to find a url.

i.e.: You are a plurk (plurk.com) happy user. You try to access this site so you start tipping p char.

In Firefox 2 plurk was the only one suggested address. Now you get a lot of suggestions because almost every url uses the P character (httP://....)

This is just only a sample case. I think it would not be difficult to add a about:config switch that enable users to change the bar type if you don't want to overpopulate the Preferences interface.

Other missing feature, the 'Go buton' that now is an add on(?!) The reload button does not behave in the same way. Sometimes you need to go again to an URL and not to resubmit a form (posting data).

Yes I know, I mean
https://addons.mozilla.org/es-ES/fire...
If you want to enable that button by default.
In the past you can use "Customize..." in order to get it.

Actually, I find the new url bar pretty useful. If they moved that functionality to the search bar, it would then be crowding the features there (much less screen real estate over there). My only frustration was (past tense) that some useless pages lingered in the results, like an error page. But then I discovered shift+delete.

Re: kadrianus, when I type "p" I don't get a bunch of random sites, I get ones where "p" is a meaningful part of the title or url.

Perhaps I have had less trouble because before I used google to get to commonly visited sites as often as the url. So searching through history and bookmarks seems perfectly logical for me.

I also find Shift+delete . It was nice to find an easy way to delete a ton of non-desired urls that the bar accumulates when you visit sites like Digg i.e.

But in firefox 2 when I press 'p' I use to get plurk.com site only. In firefox 3 I also get other httP:// sites before the one I wan't. Of course there are more examples.

Anyway, after some use you get comfortable with its use. But if I have a chance to setup my preference, I I would choose the old way. I like the idea. In fact, Katapult, gnome-do and Quicksilver uses the same concept and they are great time-saver for me. I also think that this behavior is more suitable for the search box.

I like Firefox, There are a lot of plugins functionality that that i need for my daily work that its not available in other browser. This is just tiny detail that can be easy solved with one of them.