Another thing that pisses me off

Firefox 3's location bar. I don't mind the one click bookmark thing, that's actually useful. But the so-called "smart" feature that searches through your bookmarks and history instead of just matching the beginning of previously typed URLs like in Firefox 2? GTFO.

I don't need my bookmarks appearing. I have Fast Dial, so all my bookmarks are visible any time I open a new tab.

There are about:config options for this, some of which don't do shit. It tries to learn based on your usage, but when your desired usage is the old functionality and that takes forever to even approximate, why bother.

Where is the option to just go back to Fx2's location bar? Why not have the thing be configurable? More options = more customized user experience = users get exactly what they want out of the browser = good. They've suggested that someone make an extension to provide the old behavior, but this is the kind of thing that should be a browser preference.

There is one about:config option that does have a notable effect: browser.urlbar.matchBehavior. Set it to 3 for best results. While you're there, set browser.urlbar.matchOnlyTyped (strangely, no mozillazine entry for that preference) to true. The bookmark-related options found by entering places into the filter box look like they might change something, but after changing them to 0 (the recommended setting to prevent bookmarks from showing in the list) and restarting firefox, nothing's different, bookmarks still appear in the dropdown. This might be because my bookmarks end up in my history. Because I use my bookmarks. lol.

I don't know if this is just by design or if it's a quirk that could disappear, but disabling the history isn't exactly the same as setting it to clear it after 0 days. Setting it to 0 days basically makes the history session-only, which when you think about it is pretty neat.

My Firefox is highly configured for screen space and usability, and to not have the option to make the location bar work more to my liking is inexcusable. There are extensions to fix it, but they either do stuff I don't want or don't do enough, so I haven't installed any of them. Now that I think about it, I should do an updated Firefox Extensions post, since I've added a few, and maybe go into UI config and extension setup a bit more than I did before.

Also I still don't know what that one site was that I had in Fast Dial. I have the empty spot waiting for it, but I just can't remember what it was. I guess I didn't use it all that often, seeing as how I've remembered all 18 of the other sites I had in it. Maybe I should just fill that spot with the next site I bookmark. Maybe then I'll remember it.

I said I needed to go to sleep two hours ago. I think I'll go do that now.