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By anonimouse (Wed Jun 18, 2008 at 03:45:43 PM EST) internet, browser (all tags)

I can haz downloaded it.

Update [2008-6-18 16:9:9 by anonimouse]: Now with added Poll

It seems a lot faster rendering OGame pages...on the other hand, I'm not sure I like the new form of URL prediction.

I'll add more later - what does everyone else think.

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Typing in the address bar sucks by hulver (4.00 / 1) #1 Wed Jun 18, 2008 at 05:24:03 PM EST

They always have to spoil something don't they.

I've found changing one of the about:config options (browser:urlbar:level or something similar) to 2 to make it work more how I like.
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Was it by Breaker (2.00 / 0) #11 Thu Jun 19, 2008 at 06:19:02 AM EST

browser.urlbar.matchBehaviour? Default is currently 1.

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Ahhh, better. by Breaker (2.00 / 0) #12 Thu Jun 19, 2008 at 06:36:26 AM EST

browser.urlbar.matchOnlyTyped set to true and it doesn't scan your bookmarks - more like FF2.

Still haven't managed to get it to have the drop down as just the URL though; it keeps putting the page title in the list too.

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: oldbar addon by thunderbee (2.00 / 0) #20 Thu Jun 19, 2008 at 04:13:06 PM EST

OldBar
There used to be an about:config option that sadly was removed.

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I downloaded it yesterday, by komet (2.00 / 0) #2 Wed Jun 18, 2008 at 05:57:17 PM EST

thought the "awesome bar" was fucking shite (the about:config things didn't help), and re-installed 2.0.0.14 after about 10 minutes. WHY DO THEY ALWAYS HAVE TO MUCK ABOUT

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: "Awesome bar"? by Breaker (4.00 / 1) #13 Thu Jun 19, 2008 at 06:40:08 AM EST

No. A more accurate description was already taken though.

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Question: by yicky yacky (4.00 / 1) #5 Thu Jun 19, 2008 at 01:28:12 AM EST

Once all the bugs were fixed, what was wrong with version 2?

I haven't had a "You know what? This browser could really do with $x" moment in at least three years.

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Maybe not by anonimouse (4.00 / 1) #6 Thu Jun 19, 2008 at 02:55:32 AM EST

...but I have had a "You know what? This browser is slow and has leaked all my memory" moment frequently.

It's not that radically different, and Hulver indicates I can get the address bar working in the "old fashioned way", so I'll be happy when i can do that.

Girls come and go but a mortgage is for 25 years -- JtL
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Please post that by Phage (2.00 / 0) #7 Thu Jun 19, 2008 at 03:26:55 AM EST

When you figure it out. I have the same issue.
It does seem much faster though.

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: See Hulvers first post by anonimouse (2.00 / 0) #8 Thu Jun 19, 2008 at 04:50:46 AM EST

Also items with * alongside them seem to be old style URLs
Girls come and go but a mortgage is for 25 years -- JtL
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Opera have brought a new one too by nebbish (2.00 / 0) #9 Thu Jun 19, 2008 at 05:00:34 AM EST

It sucks at a very particular thing I do in flickr that it used to be very good at.

Can you downgrade back?

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fuck, that was ugly by herbert (4.00 / 1) #15 Thu Jun 19, 2008 at 07:50:44 AM EST

I nearly had to kill you for making me install that, until I found out there is an Opera Classic skin.

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: It's generally a pretty crap browser by nebbish (2.00 / 0) #17 Thu Jun 19, 2008 at 09:08:47 AM EST

Ugly, clunky and a bit stupid. However it manges torrents well, and does that flickr thing I was on about. I use both Opera and Firefox.
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Address bar by Breaker (4.00 / 1) #10 Thu Jun 19, 2008 at 06:12:36 AM EST

Yeah, I agree with you there. FAIL.

I must be the only guy on this site by wiredog (2.00 / 0) #14 Thu Jun 19, 2008 at 07:13:06 AM EST

who likes the address bar.

I've been running the Betas, then the RC's, for a while. I like FF3.

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: Same here by jayhawk88 (2.00 / 0) #16 Thu Jun 19, 2008 at 08:19:49 AM EST

The Most Visited thing is kind of nice too

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I'm royally pissed about one thing. by ObviousTroll (4.00 / 1) #18 Thu Jun 19, 2008 at 09:49:30 AM EST

You can't have FF3 and FF2 on the same box.

I bounce back and forth between as many different browsers as I can manage, trying to make sure my sites work correctly. I don't see why I can't have them both installed into different windows directories.

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how bout on a USB drive? by garlic (2.00 / 0) #19 Thu Jun 19, 2008 at 03:17:47 PM EST

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Maybe. by ObviousTroll (2.00 / 0) #21 Thu Jun 19, 2008 at 05:16:50 PM EST

I actually installed FF3 in a custom directory to get it to try and leave FF2 behind. The result was a mess - if I manually run the FF2 executable, it still somehow launches FF3. I have to assume there's some sort of registry mangling or DLL hell involved.

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: let me see by garlic (2.00 / 0) #22 Thu Jun 19, 2008 at 07:01:50 PM EST

I have firefox on my USB drive. it says it's 'firefoxportable'. That's probably how it gets around registry crap. Appears to be available in 3.

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I like it. by CountSpatula (2.00 / 0) #23 Fri Jun 20, 2008 at 12:49:47 AM EST

The most important thing, in my humble opinion, is that it's stable, works well, and displays my porn in a most delectable manner.

The URL prediction thing is a little annoying, but not to the point that I'd whine about it. After all, I have most of the places I visit in bookmarks anyway. And if it has some suggestions, hell, I'll maybe give it a shot.

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I still just use Konqueror by Phil Urich (2.00 / 0) #24 Sat Jun 21, 2008 at 07:44:08 AM EST

It has issues too, sure, but somehow it just seems to do things a little bit more elegantly here and there. Whenever I have to use Firefox for more than brief periods of time I get reminded of all the little things I had forgotten drove me crazy about it.

Of course, compared to some of the other alternatives . . .

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