Awesome Bar Not Behaving As Expected In Firefox 4 Beta 4

[havock92]

Hi

Installed the Firefox 4 Beta 4 last night and I'm loving the new Tab
Panorama feature but my Awesome Bar has stopped working properly. My
usual method of getting around is typing something in to the location
bar i.e 'gmail' and then letting the Awesome Bar work out where I want
to go from there. (I believe it uses the Google I'm feeling lucky
search option) But now when I do it just brings up a Google search for
whatever I typed in which isnt as useful before it only did that if it
didnt have a clue.

Is this something that has been changed for this beta? If so can I
change it back? Or am I having a some weird plugin conflict going on?
(I've already had a few with Tab Panorama I still can't get the button
to show up unless all my plugins are disabled but then I tend to use
keyboard shortcuts anyways.)

Any help would be greatly appreciated I do love what you guys are
doing with Firefox.

Many Thanks

[havock92]

Also sorry as a quick footnote is there anyway to make a tab that you
make an app tab in one set of tabs in Tab Panorama only appear in that
set and not in all of them?

Thanks

David

[Chris Ilias]

On 10-08-25 5:42 AM, havock92 wrote:
> Installed the Firefox 4 Beta 4 last night and I'm loving the new Tab
> Panorama feature but my Awesome Bar has stopped working properly. My
> usual method of getting around is typing something in to the location
> bar i.e 'gmail' and then letting the Awesome Bar work out where I want
> to go from there. (I believe it uses the Google I'm feeling lucky
> search option) But now when I do it just brings up a Google search for
> whatever I typed in which isnt as useful before it only did that if it
> didnt have a clue.
>
> Is this something that has been changed for this beta? If so can I
> change it back? Or am I having a some weird plugin conflict going on?
> (I've already had a few with Tab Panorama I still can't get the button
> to show up unless all my plugins are disabled but then I tend to use
> keyboard shortcuts anyways.)

Yeah, between beta 3 and beta 4, the keyword.URL preference was emptied.
If you set it to:
http://www.google.com/search?btnI=I%27m+Feeling+Lucky&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&q=
that should change it use the I'm feeling Luck search.

> Any help would be greatly appreciated I do love what you guys are
> doing with Firefox.

FYI, this newsgroup is a user community newsgroup. There may be a
developer of two that reads your message, but for the most part, it's users.
--
Chris Ilias <http://ilias.ca>
List-owner: support-firefox, support-thunderbird, test-multimedia

[havock92]

Hi Chris

Ah sorry didnt realise that my mistake!

Tried resetting the value to that but now whatever I type in just
brings me to the Google I'm Feeling Lucky blank page (what you get
when you just click the button) I guess there must be some way of
entering the URL so that it enters the search term in there but I'm
not sure how you would do it. Does anybody have any ideas?

Thanks for all your help

David

> Yeah, between beta 3 and beta 4, the keyword.URL preference was emptied.

> If you set it to:http://www.google.com/search?btnI=I%27m+Feeling+Lucky&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF...

[havock92]

Have just found the correct URL

Its http://www.google.com/search?ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&sourceid=navclient&gfns=1&q=

For anybody who is interested thanks again for your help.

David

[David McRitchie]

"havock92" wrote...

> Have just found the correct URL
>
> Its http://www.google.com/search?ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&sourceid=navclient&gfns=1&q=

> For anybody who is interested thanks again for your help. // David L.

If you like searching from the location bar, you might want to try using keyword shortcuts
which would give you a lot more options. Essentially you could incorporate almost
any webpage search box as a keyword shortcut, including those of the major search
engines. http://www.mvps.org/dmcritchie/firefox/kws.htm

So if you like the one you mentioned for google you could simply modify it
by adding %S after the &q= give it a keyword shortcut of "g" or like
I prefer as "g:" then you could simply type
g: firefox awesomebar
or if you're not sure if AwesomeBar is hyphenated, one word, or two words (it's one word)
you could use
g: firefox awesome-bar

--
HTH,
David McRitchie, extensions I use are briefly documented on my site
Firefox Custom: http://www.mvps.org/dmcritchie/firefox/firefox.htm

[Mark Holtzhausen]

The awesome bar sometimes does not react to the [Enter] key. Whether it is a url or a search term does not seem to make a difference.

The only plugin I had that might have impacted the bar's functionality was TwitterBar, which is now disabled but still does not seem to solve the problem.

Versions affected: 4.0b+, 4.0