Restore Firefox 2 Location Bar in Firefox 3

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Restore Firefox 2 Location Bar in Firefox 3

by Keith Dsouza | Translate | Print
Wednesday, 16th Jul 2008 | Share

Firefox 3 made a major change to the location bar allowing you to search anywhere in the URL history and bookmarks. Though the feature is awesome several users are not happy with it. There are quite a few tips and tricks about doing away with the new AwesomeBar.

But why break your head when you can do it with a simple extension. Old Location Bar is a Firefox extension that will help you restore the Firefox 2 location bar in Firefox 3.

old-location-bar

Just install the plugin and your location bar will be restored. Since this extension is still in experimental mode you will have to sign into Firefox add-ons site before you can use it.

To save you some trouble and time, here is a username and password you can use to login into Firefox add-ons site.

username: admin@techie-buzz.com

password: techiebuzz

Download Old Location Bar

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Author: Keith Dsouza

Keith is the editor-in-chief and owner of Techie Buzz. Keith is a social networking enthusiast and can be found active on twitter, you can follow Keith on twitter @keithdsouza

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Tags: awesomebar, Disable AwesomeBar, Firefox 3, firefox extensions, Location Bar

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Magie
July 16th, 2008 at 9:31 pm #

I think the new bar location is not a big problem. I get easily adapt with it.

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