[nzlug] Firefox 3: Smart URL Handling... how to turn off?

[Mark Foster]

On Mon, 26 May 2008, Craig Box wrote:

>>
>> Still wouldnt mind restoring Firefox 2 style behavior for the address bar,
>> but I guess I can live with the current fashion.
>
>
> You can restore the Firefox 2 *appearance* with the oldbar extension:
> https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/6227
>
> It still uses the same search - so typing 'ma' may prefer iMAges.google.comover
> MAps.google.com.  There are lots of requests for a "search from the front
> only" mode to be added [1], but it hasn't yet.  I found that it soon learned
> my pattern and isn't too offensive, though I can see why others are very
> upset with it.

Thanks Craig, that url is a good find and it seems theres a number of 
people who feel like I do .

I wouldn't even have noticed (i'm running FF2 everywhere else) except that 
Ubuntu shipped FF3b5 out of box.

It doesn't seem that different to FF2, except for this, at least so far...

Mark.