Firefox 3.0 aggravations

[Steve Lamb]

On Thu, June 19, 2008 7:14 am, David Vincent wrote:
> - - click the star in The Awesome Bar once, twice

    I move to strike that name and replace it with the "Take it, BEESH! bar"
 ;)

> - - fill in your info including a tag or two, don't worry about sorting it
> into a folder, the tagging makes that somewhat redundant
> - - click the ok button

    Still too many steps.  See, the way it worked before was.

- - Go to the site.

    Tags are further input, unneeded input, from me.  I've never had a need
for tags before and do not like the concept of them.  If I had my
druthers it would have been tags that was ripped out instead of a
sensible and simple way to find sites I visit in a quick and simple
manner which did not require one whit of input from me to work.

> now to access your sites just type the tag in the address bar where you
> used to type your two-letter codes - heck, tag the sites with your two
> letter codes.

    While I appreciate the suggestion it misses the mark.  Take, for
example, a Verizon buyer who has looked at some phone upgrades recently
and he wants to get back to them.  He types in ve and gets pages with
haVE in their title.  This breaks up the grouping of VErizon.com URLs
which are easily scanned.  Are you suggesting that he bookmark each
page, and tag them, when in 3-4 days he won't need any of that any more,
ever?

> seems a bit easier to me than migrating to a new browser.  in fact i'm
> going to start bookmarking sites again because of how this feature is
> implemented.

    If migrating means going back to something sensible then that is easier,
really.  I only need to migrate once.  I go to sites by URL dozens, if
not hundreds, of times a day.  A small investment in a new browser more
than makes up for the lost productivity this change has wrought.  Oh,
and for the record, as of this morning "awesome bar rocks" and "awesome
bar rules" netted 3 hits on Google.  "awesome bar sucks" netted 10 hits.
 There's proof.  ;)

> btw what is the alternative browser to you?  i'm liking epiphany and its
> many extensions, opera is pretty great too though.

    Opera probably.  I actually am one of the people who pledged to pay for
it and did pay for it when they ported it to Linux about a decade ago. 
I can easily use it again.  Depends if they've got the same silliness in
the URL bar.

-- 
Steve Lamb