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Since they are ripping off the chrome UI part and parcel, I wonder why they still haven't switched to a unified search and location bar.
by angrycoder 16y ago
Since they are ripping off the chrome UI part and parcel, I wonder why they still haven't switched to a unified search and location bar.
- trafficlight 16y agoI still prefer the Firefox's Awesome bar over Chrome's unified bar. I like having the drop down list of my most visited sites.
- dheerosaur 16y agoThere is a great Firefox plug-in called CyberSearch. I can't imagine browsing without it. For me, it works way better than the integrated location bar in Google Chrome.
- sid0 16y agoBecause not everyone thinks it is good UI?
- weavejester 16y agoFunnily enough, one of my few complaints about Chrome is that the location bar doesn't seem as good as the one in Firefox. I tend to use the location bar more often for accessing sites I've been to before, rather than searching for new sites. Chrome doesn't appear to have a particularly good history search, so I have to type quite a lot before it figures out where I want to go. Conversely, Firefox seems to get it right more often, and with a lot less typing. For example, in Firefox, if I type in "y" in the location bar, it instantly suggests "news.ycombinator.com", which is by far my most frequently visited site with a "y" in it. Chrome suggests "yardoc.org", which I've only visited once or twice several weeks back. Chrome seems to place a lot more emphasis on matching the address bar in order; so it assumes that if I wanted "news.ycombinator.com", I'd begin with "n". It also seems to rate sites based on how recently I visited them, rather than how often I visit them. All this means that whilst the Firefox location bar seems to read my mind, the Chrome location bar hardly ever produces relevant results.