The awesomebar tag has no wiki summary.
1
vote
2answers
90 views
Will upgrading Firefox to the latest version clear my Awesome Bar database?
I'm considering upgrading from Firefox 3.6.3 to Firefox 9, but concerned that I'll need to rebuild my Awesome Bar database from scratch. Is this a legitimate concern? Or will my current database be ...
3
votes
3answers
254 views
Hiding certain bookmarks from the awesome bar / autocompletion
In Firefox, I want to hide certain (not all!) bookmarks from the awesomebar / autocompletion on the address field. There once was an addon called "not awesome" that could do that, but it seems like it ...
1
vote
2answers
203 views
How to make firefox awesomebar “switch to tab” first of the propositions list?
In Firefox (actually IceWeasel but it doesn't matter) I'd like to be able to quickly switch between tabs using my keyboard. The "switch to tab" feature of the AwesomeBar is exactly what I need, but I ...
5
votes
1answer
4k views
Change the default search engine for Firefox's address bar
I love the ability to just type something into Firefox's address bar and do a google search. But I was wondering if there was some way to customise what search engine it used?
10
votes
2answers
695 views
Make Google Chrome's address bar prefer page titles to domain names when offering completions?
I've recently switched from Firefox to Chrome, and the thing I miss most from Firefox is the "Awesome Bar" that suggests completions for what I type primarily based on page titles, and then ...
0
votes
2answers
177 views
The oldbar extension isn't compatible with Firefox 4. Is there a way around this?
Namely, is there some equivalent extension around that runs in FF4, or is there some way to alter oldbar?
2
votes
4answers
965 views
Firefox: Choose between search and “I'm feeling lucky” at location bar
Normally when I type something that isn't a URL into the address bar I want to search for it, but sometimes I want to go straight to the site. Is there a way I can set Firefox up to do this?
I'd ...
0
votes
1answer
481 views
Switch to tab in FireFox awesome bar (4 beta 1)
On the "what's new" page for FF4b1 there is the feature described as "Navigate more easily by switching to open tabs from your Awesome Bar." - how do I activate it? Clicking in the address bar just ...
2
votes
2answers
217 views
Firefox Awesomebar first character?
In the Firefox (3.6.6) Awesomebar:
? grape
searches Google* for "grape".
! grape
shows the "I'm Feeling Lucky" Google page for "grape".
With what other "special" characters can I start the ...
3
votes
3answers
1k views
Firefox like address bar in Chrome
Firefox's AwesomeBar searches history including the titles of pages incrementally. How can I get Chrome to also search the titles in the history?
For example, for this very page, in Firefox, I can ...
1
vote
1answer
788 views
How do I keep the keyword.url setting in Firefox to the default when you restart the browser without deleting prefs.js?
I am on the latest version of Firefox (not beta or anything like that) and currently my keyword.url is stuck on search.google.com (which I don't remember setting even though the about:config says it's ...
13
votes
4answers
2k views
Make Chrome's Omnibar behave more like the Firefox AwesomeBar
One of my favorite features of the Firefox AwesomeBar is that I can simply type a substring of any URL or page title in my history and it finds all matches sorted by how frequently they were accessed. ...
0
votes
1answer
69 views
Is there a way to “pre-load” Awesomebar with all my Google Docs?
It's convenient to just type the title of a Google Doc and see it pop up in the Awesomebar, but it only works for docs I've opened in the last month or so. Is there a way to pre-load all the doc ...
1
vote
4answers
756 views
firefox URL autocomplete: how to suppress autocomplete for the first few characters?
Firefox's "awesomebar" goes into autocomplete mode as soon as you type in 1 character. That seems silly to me, and it hangs for a few seconds when I first start the program up, as it does its thinking ...
4
votes
4answers
1k views
Why is the Firefox location bar so slow?
I don't understand, Firefox is a great browser, but the location bar is so slow. It literally was stuck for 30 seconds looking up something in its database.
Is there a way to tell it to stop trying ...
2
votes
1answer
706 views
Remove (or replace) URLs by domain from Firefox history and awesome bar
At my job, we recently move a lot of back-end services (e.g. ticket tracking, reporting, admin) from one server to another. Unfortunately, the way that our servers are configured, we're not using ...
1
vote
1answer
1k views
Tweak Firefox AwesomeBar to be more like Chrome's Omnibar
Do you know a good way to replicate (more or less) the behavior of Google Chrome's omnibar within Firefox?
I'm especially interested in a way to have Firefox suggest the root of the website when I ...
6
votes
9answers
2k views
Firefox: How to speed up the Smart Location Bar (AwesomeBar)?
The Firefox AwesomeBar is indeed awesome. But, lately I see that it has become slow. On entering some characters it even freezes for a few seconds (freezing the entire browser).
Why does it slow ...
