Australis is landing in Firefox Nightly
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Australis is landing in Firefox Nightly
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Re: Australis is landing in Firefox Nightly
#2They're still keeping the search and address boxes separate? :\
Re: Australis is landing in Firefox Nightly
#3They'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.
Re: Australis is landing in Firefox Nightly
#4They'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)
Re: Australis is landing in Firefox Nightly
#5Is it merged in today's build? It seems not to be available in the 28.0a1 (2013-11-18) OS X build/update.
Re: Australis is landing in Firefox Nightly
#6Is 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.
Re: Australis is landing in Firefox Nightly
#7They'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)
I've recently tried to switch back from chrome to Firefox but the persistent search thing really bugs me, as well as the fact that it doesn't always search when typing into the url bar.
If you want to get back so quickly there are recently closed, bookmarks, history and plenty of other ways. Always persisting the search term I find very visually distracting.
Edit: On the other hand, the current tab behaviour is more of an irritation. Middle clicking the tab closes the tab unless it's the last tab when it does nothing. This is irritating. Dragging a tab doesn't work well when that tab is maximised. In chrome if you have 2 windows both maximised it's easy to drag a tab from one window to the other. In firefox you have to make one window smaller first to do this.
I'm quite excited to find out if this new interface fixes this.
Re: Australis is landing in Firefox Nightly
#8They'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.
Re: Australis is landing in Firefox Nightly
#9They'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)
I also prefer them separate, but rather for ease of navigation. I use the address box as a form of "search my browsing history" to jump to pages that I've visited before, and it's convenient to keep that separate from the search box's own history and automatic suggestions. The fact that Chrome conflates these two concepts is its biggest turn-off to me.
Re: Australis is landing in Firefox Nightly
#10It looks even more like chrome now.
DISCLAIMER: I don't like chrome.