[IxDA Discuss] Awesome Bar

[Fred Beecher]

On 4/24/08, john at smorgasbord-design.co.uk <john at smorgasbord-design.co.uk>
wrote:
>
> Will Firefox 3's new 'Awesome Bar' (eeugh) [1] change the way we navigate
> online, enhancing search within the browser?


I didn't notice it as being anything different than FF2 until I read the
"What's New" page on Mozilla' s FF site. At which point I thought, "Huh, I
guess it does look different." Since then I've used it, but I've found
myself squinting through it... Many times it will come up with deep internal
pages before just the home page of a site, and it's usually not the deep
pages I'm looking for.

Also, Google Maps breaks it. The page title listed in the "Awesome Bar" will
indicate an address, search, or whatever, but you'll notice that the URL is
just maps.google.com. I don't know if that's FF's problem or Google's, but
it sure does cause users' actions to have unexpected results.

Sorry if this is a little light on the cynicism. I've used most of mine up
for today. : )

- F.