The Firefox awesome bar, often also called location bar or address bar, tries to match letters entered by the Firefox user to bookmarks, tags and the Firefox web browsing history. Several settings can be changed so that the awesome bar will ignore some of the locations that it searches for matches.
Firefox does not offer options to exclude specific websites from the search in the awesome bar. Some users might want to have the functionality to hide websites from being displayed in the awesome bar either because of users sharing a Firefox profile on the same computer system, hiding some urls from prying eyes that might walk by or to exclude websites that should not be found that way.
The Firefox add-on Not Awesome adds the option to exclude websites from the awesome bar’s search. It does so by filtering out websites that have been bookmarked and tagged with notawesome. Every bookmark with that tag will not be included during searches in the Firefox awesome bar.
The easiest way to add these tags is to open the Firefox bookmarks and edit the websites in there. Another option becomes available when adding new bookmarks.
The add-on adds a checkbox to hide the bookmark from awesome bar searches in the add bookmarks dialog. Not Awesome is an experimental Firefox add-on that is available at the official Mozilla Firefox website.
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[...] Have a handy tip for wrangling the AwesomeBar into shape? Let’s hear it in the comments. NotAwesome works wherever Firefox does. Not Awesome [via gHacks] [...]
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[...] it in the comments. NotAwesome works wherever Firefox does.
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[...] Not Awesome [via gHacks] [...]
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[...] You can flag bookmarks in two ways. When you create a bookmark you can—as seen in the screenshot above—simply check the “Hide from AwesomeBar Searches”—or if you’re retroactively fixing a bunch of bookmarks you can highlight them in the bookmark manager and apply the tag “NotAwesome” to them. Have a handy tip for wrangling the AwesomeBar into shape? Let’s hear it in the comments. NotAwesome works wherever Firefox does. Not Awesome [via gHacks] [...]
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[...] the Firefox Add-ons web site. (credit for this find goes to Lifehacker, when in turn goes to gHacks [...]
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[...] the Firefox Add-ons web site. (credit for this find goes to Lifehacker, when in turn goes to gHacks [...]
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[...] NotAwesome: Firefox 3 introduced the Awesomebar concept where it pulls your bookmarks as you type so you can easily find sites you frequent. What if you are working with coworker and don’t want certain sites appearing while you are typing in an Address? NotAwesome hides that for you! [via gHacks] [...]
That’s not true. Firefox just released this feature to stop suggesting bookmarks and history in the location bar.
Tools-Options-Privacy-Location Bar- Suggest Nothing
You do understand that this add-on hides selected bookmarks only and not all?
I use SCIM with the Anthy Plugin for this.
I type, then press F9:
Bookmark
becomes
Ｂｏｏｋｍａｒｋ
Firefox considers these two different characters.