rolling Firefox back to 2.x

NoOp glgxg at sbcglobal.net
Tue Sep 2 15:05:29 UTC 2008


On 09/02/2008 06:35 AM, Derek Broughton wrote:
> NoOp wrote:
> 
>> 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.
> 
> No, he wants a dropdown.  He wants it to show only URLs beginning with 'f'
> if he types 'f'.  Instead, it shows him every URL that has an 'f' in it. 
> Now, that's fine as an option, especially for the stoopid set, who can't
> actually remember whether "firefox" was a domain name or a file somewhere
> on the Ubuntu site, but I can see it being extremely annoying to somebody
> who's used to using the old behaviour.

Then, again, I'd recommend that 'he' wander over to the Fx support
groups as discussing it here is a complete waste of time. And if one is
so inclined, the Mozilla developers are always looking for assistance:

http://www.mozilla.org/community/developer-forums.html







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