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.

Why do I hate the awfulbar?

Well, let's see...
1) It's horribly, horribly, *unconscionably* cluttered. Useless text in two fonts in three different sizes and two different colors all interspersed with various buttons and vomited into one single window - just beautiful. The only thing missing is making the background black and the font dark blue and blinking.

2) It second-guesses me, and gets it wrong, making it harder and slower to find the URL's I want.

3) It doesn't show the most recent sites I've visited, but the ones it thinks I want to see.

4) It mixes bookmarks in with visited sites. Why the hell would I want bookmarked sites in the drop-down? IVE BOOKMARKED THEM!

5) There's no option to remove it, or even change its behavior to something less annoyingly intrusive and cluttered.

I've used Firefox since version 1, and every version it's gotten bigger, slower, buggier, and gotten more useless misfeatures. A couple of versions more and it'll be Netscape reborn.

Anyway, to all those who like me hate the Awfulbar:
Install the 'Old Location Bar' addon, and then google for how to turn off the annoying star buttons. Without those two measures I'd have bailed to Opera.

No, thomas, I don't bookmark sites I visit *often*, I bookmark sites I visit *rarely* or which I think may be useful *later*. That's why I don't want them in my dropdown menu. I use(d) the dropdown menu to store frequently visited sites, but with awfulbar they tend to get lost in the clutter.

That it tries to second-guess me does nothing but add an unwelcome element of surprise every time I open the Awfulbar or try to type an URL.

I've always hated software which tries to think for me, they never get it right. Awfulbar is no exception.

And to add insult to injury it's ugly.

The Awfulbar is bad enough that had I not found the Old Adress Bar addon I really, truly, would have uninstalled Firefox.
An intrusive and counter-intuitive "feature" like Awfulbar should've been an option.

The ability to match the beginning of the url is also in Firefox 3.1
Note that there is another bug on ignoring the "www." in matches that needs to be confirmed/voted on.

I hate it because I just want it to match URLs like FF2. If I type an H, I want to see websites whose name starts with h. Not every website I've ever gone to because it matched the H in .HTML.

I like the concept, dislike the implementation, and hate the fact that you didn't think ahead enough to make it a feature that can be turned off.

But hey, it's free software. It's not like you have to worry about losing money by driving your users off through annoying changes in behavior.