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Australis is landing in Firefox Nightly

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Re: Australis is landing in Firefox Nightly

#21
post #4
post #2

They're still keeping the search and address boxes separate? :\

I prefer it this way...The address box works as a search bar but the search is persistent (ie. I can search for something, close the tab and come back later in two key presses)

My problem with conflating search and URL is

1) 1-word searches/domains or searches involving a domain-looking piece of text throw it off.

2) cluttering my typed-URL history with search keywords.

Re: Australis is landing in Firefox Nightly

#22
post #8
post #2

They're still keeping the search and address boxes separate? :\

I just get rid of the search bar and use the URL bar for search too, don't think there are any downsides to doing that.

It's handy unless you accidentally start searching for anything that could be mistaken for an IP address or domain. Typing in `0x10c` to find the site for the game, or `minimal-library.js`, or whatever, won't take you to a search results page.

Works alright for most things though, and I think it's still better than Google's default to Google approach, which is frustrating when you're working on a locally hosted site and keep getting sent to a search page.

Re: Australis is landing in Firefox Nightly

#24
post #12

Hooray! Been waiting for this for a long time. I'll be especially happy if Mozilla can manage to improve the default look of Firefox on Linux, where it's just absolutely dreadful (and where I'm usually forced to resort to https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/fxchrome/ to preserve my sanity).

Mine looks great on Ubuntu, what are your issues?

Re: Australis is landing in Firefox Nightly

#28
post #3
post #2

They're still keeping the search and address boxes separate? :\

If you type a word into the address box, it tries to look it up in DNS. If you put a word in the search bar, it goes straight to search.

You can type a ? before the one word in the url bar to go straight to search

Re: Australis is landing in Firefox Nightly

#29
post #12

Hooray! Been waiting for this for a long time. I'll be especially happy if Mozilla can manage to improve the default look of Firefox on Linux, where it's just absolutely dreadful (and where I'm usually forced to resort to https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/fxchrome/ to preserve my sanity).

It looks like every other app. What is wrong with that?

Re: Australis is landing in Firefox Nightly

#30
post #6
post #5

Is it merged in today's build? It seems not to be available in the 28.0a1 (2013-11-18) OS X build/update.

It will either be in tomorrow's Nightly or we will do an extra build of Nightly in the afternoon.

Ok, great.

edit: a new update is now available with the new changes, I _like_ it!

edit': a minor quibble though, I preferred the star button when it was directly integrated in the url bar. I find it too excentred from the url for my eyes, I often give a quick look to check if an url is already starred or not.

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