There have been more comments than usual on an article that I wrote about the Firefox 3 Location bar also known as the Awesome Bar. Many users voiced their opinion that they did not like the new functionality of the location bar and that they would switch back to Firefox 2 or even another browser if there would not be a fix posted soon.
A fix meaning a configuration setting that would allow them to disable the inclusion of bookmarks in the list that is shown in the location bar. These users can now rejoice again because the Hide Unvisited Firefox extension hides bookmarks from being shown in that list. To be precise, bookmarks are not shown unless they are also part of the history which would include them obviously in the list.
The Firefox add-on is compatible to Firefox 3 final and can be downloaded from the official Mozilla website.
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There is already a preference for this. “browser.urlbar.matchOnlyTyped=true” gives you back the <=2.0 behavior.
Another preference is
browser.urlbar.maxRichResults = 0
It goes back to FF2.0 behavior.
Extensions whose only purpose is to switch a value in the about:config seem to me absurd if the user has the minimum skill to access that about:config. If so, the following page delivers I think all the info needed to handle those bookmarks in the “Awesome” bar :
http://www.labnol.org/software/browsers/prevent-firefox-showing-bookmarks-address-location-bar/3636/
By setting these browser.urlbar values in the about:config, they can be changed so that they do not show on the awesome bar, but the values are still stored. If you change the browser.urlbar values back, the visited URLs show up again. Best way to clear these values it to remove the file places.sqllite located in your Firefox profile folder. The file is recreated when you launch FF3 again.