rolling Firefox back to 2.x

[NoOp]

On 09/01/2008 05:52 PM, Steve Lamb wrote:
> NoOp wrote:
>> And for Fx3's Awesomebar:
>> 1. Type about:configinto the location bar
>> 2. In 'Filter' enter: maxrich
>> 3. Double-click the value and set the value to 0 (zero)
>> 4. Restart Fx3
> 
>      Bzt, thanks for playing but, sorry, that is incorrect!  Limiting the
> maximum rich responses does not revert the behavior of the AwesomeBar back to
> FF2.x.  It still will search for text in the middle of a string whereas FF2.x
> only search for text immediately following the URI Scheme (ie, http://) and I
> believe ignoring also the all-to-common www.  What this means is that if, for
> example, I want to go to forums.someplace.com but not
> www.someplaceelse.com/forums I can type forums to get the former and not the
> latter.  In 3.x forums will bring up both and sort them by how often I visit them.
> 
>     But, hey, you're not the first person to mistake the cosmetic changes as
> the crux of the difference between the two.  ;)
> 
> 

Perhaps I am not understanding, there is _no_ awesomebar in Fx2. If the
filter is set to zero, I can type whatever I wish in the standard url
bar and _nothing_ appears in the dropdown, is this not what you were
looking for? If not, then I reckon that you know how to Google just like
anyone else on the list does.