Comments on: Firefox 3: URL Bar is Killing Me!

By: Jordan Garn

Jordan Garn — Tue, 26 Jan 2010 22:53:32 +0000

Hey,

I tried to follow your steps but I can’t find the browser.urlbar.matchOnlyTyped Area, what could I be missing?

I’m on Firefox 3.5.7

By: Sk

Sk — Fri, 18 Dec 2009 11:50:57 +0000

could not find browser.urlbar.matchOnlyTyped in firefox 3.6

By: San

San — Wed, 11 Nov 2009 10:15:09 +0000

Thanks for this!!! I was almost about to throw my laptop on the wall!

By: cherouvim

cherouvim — Mon, 13 Apr 2009 18:18:33 +0000

Thanks! This feature is good but it is insanely terribly miserably slow.

I’ll enable it again when I buy a new machine.

By: Patrick

Patrick — Tue, 23 Dec 2008 16:48:04 +0000

@PJ - It appears you didn't actually read the post, as I clearly state "When this works, this feature is phenomenal, as I've seen it work on other computers. The response time is very fast, and the options to choose from are always relevant." The problem I was having with the URL bar were extremely frustrating, and made using the browser nearly impossible. You personally may have experienced "slow"ness, however, I was experiencing "excruciatingly slow" response times. Perhaps I wasn't clear in my explanation. Let me see if I can explain better here in this example:

Type "w" (the first letter in www)
wait 3 seconds
Useless results appear
The second "w" already typed now appears in the URL bar
wait 3 seconds
More useless results appear
The third "w" already typed finally appears
wait another 3 seconds

You get the picture. This is why I was forced to find some sort of solution to the problem. And thanks to Dustin, I was able to circumvent the problem, NOT DISABLE it. I appreciate the comment, however, I would appreciate it if you would read the entire post next time.

By: PJ

PJ — Sun, 21 Dec 2008 09:10:42 +0000

I’d hardly call it a fix to disable it – a fix would be to make it NOT SLOW.
And Dustin Diaz, don’t say “we wanted” – you don’t speak for anyone but yourself.
The new URLbar is brilliant if you aren’t afraid to actually try it out, it works fantastic.
Except it can be slow on some machines – on mine its slow the first couple of minutes, I think something gets cached in memory, because then its fast and there is no problem – and it speeds up browsing by 500%.

Of course if you only browse a few hours on sundays, a written list of addreses may be all you need.

By: jittat

jittat — Tue, 21 Oct 2008 00:03:14 +0000

Thanks!

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By: Dustin Diaz

Dustin Diaz — Tue, 26 Aug 2008 02:02:42 +0000

Ugh. There are just so many things wrong with the new url bar, it’s nuts that you have to jump through all these holes. I’m glad they implemented a way to get the old algorithm. That’s all we really wanted.