Disabling the Firefox 3.0 Awesome Bar

[Rashkae]

Hi guys,

Personally, I can't stand it. So I decided to do my best to revert to the Firefox 2.0 version. It's not quite possible, but you can get close by doing this:

1. Open a new page/tab and browse to about:config
2. browser.url.matchBehavior - Set this to 2
3. places.frecency.unvisitedBookmarkBonus - Set this to 0
4. places.frecency.unvisitedTypedBonus - Set this to 0

Also, add the Oldbar extension:

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/6227

 

[jimbok]

I heard auto:config can be adjusted to make your Firefox run faster, any tips on doing that?

 

[Rashkae]

I heard auto:config can be adjusted to make your Firefox run faster, any tips on doing that?

That's well-documented:

http://codebetter.com/blogs/darrell.norton/archive/2005/01/28/48720.aspx

 

[zhangyb]

don't know about u guys but firefox 3.0 has hung on me an awful number of times so far, this is irritating.

 

[Rashkae]

No hang at all for me so far

 

[Lenscapes]

i addon 'oldbar' much better now.

 

[pinkbee]

don't know about u guys but firefox 3.0 has hung on me an awful number of times so far, this is irritating.

Mine crashed quite a number of times today...

 

[Zeddy]

Mine hasn't crashed yet. *Touch wood*

 

[ah.zeep]

Hi guys,

Personally, I can't stand it. So I decided to do my best to revert to the Firefox 2.0 version. It's not quite possible, but you can get close by doing this:

1. Open a new page/tab and browse to about:config
2. browser.url.matchBehavior - Set this to 2
3. places.frecency.unvisitedBookmarkBonus - Set this to 0
4. places.frecency.unvisitedTypedBonus - Set this to 0

Also, add the Oldbar extension:

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/6227

Getting pickled with some FF3 behaviour so I actually went and read mozilla site .

Wonder if this item "How to disable the smart location bar" is what you're looking for?

 

[Rashkae]

Getting pickled with some FF3 behaviour so I actually went and read mozilla site .

Wonder if this item "How to disable the smart location bar" is what you're looking for?

No, because if you read that link, it totally disables the auto-suggest. My suggestion makes the auto-suggest behave more like FF2.

 

[JillValentine]

don't know about u guys but firefox 3.0 has hung on me an awful number of times so far, this is irritating.

Not hanged once so far.

 

[tokrot]

Firefox 3.0 is very fast! Amazing~! even youtube loads very fast! But clubsnap front page really look different.. !

 

[mrchua]

mine haven't crashed yet... oh wait, i'm using safari.

 

[dorts]

My loads really fast with lesser resources used. BUT, it crashes really often. I wonder if it's one of my extensions...

 

[bousozoku]

If you're experiencing crashes, it's probably because of data corruption from a long time ago. You're better off saving what you can, such as bookmarks, and creating a new profile.

I did this way back at version 1.5 and I rarely have crashes and those are due to plug-ins.