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Give Firefox 3 Firefox 2’s Address Bar

Today I saw my first Firefox 3 extension that bring back “classic” features of Firefox 2. It was only a matter of time before some of these started to pop up and I have a feeling that many more may be on their way.

The oldbar addon replaces Firefox 3’s new address bar with the one that you are used to now in Firefox 2. Here is the new Firefox 3 address bar (or otherwise known as the location bar):

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Then here is the classic one you will get with this Firefox 3 extension:

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You can pick up the oldbar extension over at the Mozilla addons web site.

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  Как вернуть Mozilla Firefox 3 адресную строку из прежней версии?  by Lifehacker said,

February 26, 2008 @ 11:21 am

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jx1 said,

March 13, 2008 @ 11:03 am

THANK YOU!!!

I didn’t like this feature. :S
at all.. lol!

is there anyway to remove the favs from the location bar?
thanks.

Firefox 3 - not better browser for me « Virgo’s Naive Stories said,

May 25, 2008 @ 5:14 am

[...] is extension that imitates original address bar, but the behavior is still “awesome”. I hope that Firefox 3 in final version will have [...]

Justas said,

June 18, 2008 @ 5:29 am

Big Thanks, downloaded Firefox 3 10 min ago and already started looking for simplified address bar :)

Tony said,

June 18, 2008 @ 6:01 pm

Ugh - the new “awsomebar” is crap for people who are used to navigating by typing part of the URL - something I do hundreds of times every day.

Changing the zoom default also sucks, IMO.

It almost seems like FireFox is trying to drive users away.

Resolutor said,

June 20, 2008 @ 4:44 am

With this addon you can go back to FF2 Address bar / Location bar.
Not only in aspect but also in functionality!!!

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/7637

:-D :-D

dan said,

June 21, 2008 @ 9:58 am

this bar sucks… i search a lot of porno and everytime i click the dropdown arrow, the urls are there!

Rohan Shenoy said,

June 21, 2008 @ 1:08 pm

I don’t like that new address bar at all, it a mess to find the links. Besides it does take some time. Thanks a lot for letting us know about that addon!

PH said,

June 21, 2008 @ 7:02 pm

This is a welcomed extension, but this nor OldBar give us the scrollbar and can show only 12 recent visited links. FF2 was able to show more links and had a scrollbar to use and scroll through them. It’s annoying that it wipes out always one link when you type in a new one exceeding 12 already shown.

PH said,

June 21, 2008 @ 7:04 pm

Sorry, meant to say “….this nor Old Location Bar….”

Not A Luddite said,

June 24, 2008 @ 3:49 am

Thank you for this plugin. I downloaded Firefox 3 yesterday and immediately hated the new location bar. I even reverted to FF2 on my laptop because I hated it so much. Now I can have the best of both worlds.

Tony said,

June 24, 2008 @ 1:02 pm

Now, if only someone would update the old View Source Chart (https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/655) to work with FF3…

Max said,

July 10, 2008 @ 7:32 am

*lol*. Downloaded Firefox 3 and the new Address Bar disturbed me so bad that I downloaded & installed the extension within 3 minutes. Great Job you guys out there.

Shawn said,

August 4, 2008 @ 12:45 pm

Thank you so much for this. I absolutely hated the new address bar. Looks like not too many other poeple like it either.

I was strongly considering reverting to FF2, but luckily I decided to google “change firefox 3 address bar”.

Thanks!

BIllybob said,

August 12, 2008 @ 4:37 am

hate the new URL address bar, so glad this is here.

BIllybob said,

August 12, 2008 @ 4:42 am

Hmmm, not quite guys, it wants to do a stupid near match search as well, so if I type in “log” to get to a page address that starts “log…” it still brings up addresses where lo appear anywhere together in the URL, considering a roll back i hate it this much…

BIllybob said,

August 12, 2008 @ 4:43 am

meant to be …where “lo” appear…

Can’t edit comment

Billybob said,

August 12, 2008 @ 5:30 am

Gone, got rid of it. back to ff2. The add-on doesn’t work the way I want it to and for some reason most of the pages on an on line newspaper I visit most often doesn’t scroll properly using the up and down arrow.
Hated it!

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