Firefox 3.0 aggravations

[Chris Mohler]

On Thu, Jun 19, 2008 at 12:25 PM, Steve Lamb <grey at dmiyu.org> wrote:
> On Thu, June 19, 2008 9:35 am, Avi Greenbury wrote:
>> My understanding is that this 'feature' is one that Firefox copied from
>> the beta of the new Opera..
>
>    Yeah, looks to be.  Giving 9.5 a whirl right now and it's doing the same
> darn thing.
>
>> Though Opera's more likely to have a means of switching it off.
>
>    Nope.  Even worse, it doesn't recognize URLs that have teritary domains.
>  So something like forums.somedomain.com does not come up when you type
> "for".  Oh, and as an added bonus it searches the entire contents of the
> web pages in your cache.  -.-

That's not true (about subdomains) - I type "cp" and "cp.vpsland.com"
is first in the list.  The first time I typed "cp", the URL I wanted
was further down the list, but once you arrow/scroll down to the
desired URL, the bar "learns" and moves it to the top.  Same deal for
"mem" - gives me Memphis weather, memphis.craigslist.org, and
memphis.backpage.com in that order - which is sorted by how often I
type "mem" and then go to that URL.

I have mixed feelings about the "smart bar", but I'm giving it the
benefit of the doubt and trying to learn/train it - it does save time
in some situations.

Chris