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Actually it was Mozilla
by mfext 5y ago
Actually it was Mozilla
- nathancahill 5y agoFirefox 3. The "AwesomeBar". https://blog.mozilla.org/en/mozilla/a-little-something-awesome-about-firefox-3/ https://blog.mozilla.org/en/mozilla/a-little-something-aweso... Looking at those old screenshots shows me how much the current autocomplete has regressed. The suggestions used to be so much better since it was a literal text search across titles and URLs. I remember you could configure how many results were displayed, I always set it to the max. The 2-line rich display was awesome for scanning URLs too. The "URL after the title" we have now makes it impossible to do that. Edit: Fixed most of these annoyances with this: https://www.userchrome.org/megabar-styling-firefox-address-bar.html https://www.userchrome.org/megabar-styling-firefox-address-b...
- lowlevel 5y agoI think this is because AwesomeBar had a design goal of helping end users instead of total global search domination. Just a hunch.