The website address is an essential element of any web browser, or at least of the browser’s of this generation as some browser developers experiment with designs that remove the addresses fully or partially from the browser (see Mozilla Also Experimenting With Url Bar-less Designs and Will Google Kill the URL Bar in Chrome?). Why [...]
- Author: Martin Brinkmann
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Remove the Location Bar Star in Firefox
The star in the Firefox 3 location bar can be used to bookmark a website quickly. A white star is indicating that the page has not been bookmarked yet while a yellow star is indicating that the page is already in the bookmarks. Some users prefer the old way of adding bookmarks by using the [...]
- Author: Martin Brinkmann
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Display Colored URLs in Firefox 3 Awesome Bar
The Firefox 3 Location Bar which is also known as the Awesome Bar displays different kinds of data. One user complaint is that one cannot visually distinguish the data. The user -=Ben=- created a style to display different colors depending on the type of data that is displayed in a line. Basically tags are displayed [...]
- Author: Martin Brinkmann
- Comments: 5
Cybersearch Firefox Extension
I’m a huge fan of the Awesome Search, now Searchery, add-on for Firefox 3 which added the capability of performing Google searches in the Firefox 3 location bar. I loved it so much because it helped me get rid of the search bar in the main Firefox 3 toolbar which in turn gave me more [...]
- Author: Martin Brinkmann
- Comments: 3
Trim down the Location Bar in Firefox 3 to show results in one line
By default Firefox is displaying each result in two rows. The first row is showing the title of the result while the second row contains the url of it. If you are like me you prefer a trimmed down version that does not fill that many screen estate. This can be done by removing the [...]
- Author: Martin Brinkmann
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Firefox 3 Location Bar Controversy
Most users who have tried one of the beta versions or release candidates of Firefox 3 like the new location bar also called the awesome bar. A group of users however who openly express their opinion about the new location bar in the announcement “Firefox 3 location bar just became almighty” on Mozilla Links does [...]
- Author: Martin Brinkmann
- Comments: 15
Change the Firefox Location Bar Search Engine
When you type in a word or phrase in the Firefox location bar you are either taken to Google’s search result page for the search term or, if the term has an authority website, to a website that is the authority for that search term. While most users might like the idea that Google is [...]