Comments on: One reason Firefox 3 is going to be awesome – Auto-completion in the Location Bar

By: Chris Lees

Chris Lees — Tue, 25 Mar 2008 06:33:36 +0000

Thanks for this article. All other times that I’ve read about it, I thought it was just Mozilla finally implementing a feature that Internet Explorer 5 for the Mac had :-) But yeah, it looks rather cool, being able to type any part of a page title from your history, and Firefox finding it.

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By: vexorian

vexorian — Sun, 23 Mar 2008 12:36:11 +0000

Safari is terrible, and it is not even FLOSS, no point of comparison.

By: vexorian

vexorian — Sun, 23 Mar 2008 12:34:54 +0000

The new location bar is awesome, once you get used to it. I really think this is going to be the next “tabs feature” .

Not to mention that you can just star a page and it is added to bookmarks, I know of some people that don’t really know about web bookmarks, the new bar + the star makes it possible for them to use bookmarks.

By: Chu Yeow

Chu Yeow — Sun, 23 Mar 2008 05:36:27 +0000

@Koen Van der Auwera, @Stephen: Ah, I guess I should have dug around more about the actual cause of the bug. Thanks for the info!

@Phil Wilson: Hey man, thanks for the pointer. I did read about that in one of the links in my blog post, but never did test it out. As far as I know though, Firefox 3’s auto-complete functionality is due to Places.

@Mark Wilden: Hehe you’re right, I only keep a small number of bookmarks in my browsers so that they are visible in the bookmarks toolbar – the rest of my stuff is on del.icio.us. That’s where the learning part helps I guess, because there are some sites I’ll never bookmark but access directly by typing into the Location Bar.

@psmaker: Thanks for the pointer. I’ve actually seen and tried Inquisitor but it isn’t what I want. In fact QuickSilver can replicate some of the Firefox 3 Location Bar functionality if you enable the Firefox history/bookmarks plugin and that’s what I need (which Inquisitor doesn’t provide, unless I’m being a klutz for not finding where that feature is).

By: psmaker

psmaker — Sat, 22 Mar 2008 21:34:12 +0000

This is even better – http://www.inquisitorx.com/safari/

By: Mark Wilden

Mark Wilden — Sat, 22 Mar 2008 20:08:27 +0000

As far as I can see, this is equivalent to searching your history, except that it’s automatic. I don’t quite understand how the learning part helps, unless you never bookmark your important sites.

It sounds like a useful feature because it saves a couple of mouseclicks, but not worth defecting from Safari for. :)

///ark

By: Koen Van der Auwera

Koen Van der Auwera — Sat, 22 Mar 2008 19:43:54 +0000

Yep I had the same “Safari 3.1 – Gmail (hosted)” problem. Yesterday I got the new Gmail version and everything is ok now.

By: Phil Wilson

Phil Wilson — Sat, 22 Mar 2008 15:43:39 +0000

As far as I can see, all they’ve done is integrate the old Autocomplete Manager extension for Firefox2 into the core of Firefox3. I’ve been using this extension in Fx2 for about six months or so, so it’s brilliant to see the same functionality native in Fx3 :)

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/2300

By: Stephen

Stephen — Sat, 22 Mar 2008 15:11:14 +0000

Safari 3.1 didn’t “break” Gmail, but rather, Mail for Google Apps was broken in Safari 3.1. The Google team rolled out the new version, though, which has working keypresses: if you aren’t defaulted to it, click “New Version” on the top-right side of the screen.

I still think Safari is the most beautiful way to browse the web, though Firefox is slowly following suit.