Comments on: Your browser’s command line

By: Antipode - Article – Chrome for Mac annoyances

Antipode - Article – Chrome for Mac annoyances — Wed, 09 Dec 2009 05:27:31 +0000

[...] you may know, I am obsessed with Firefox’s AwesomeBar. Google’s Omnibox goes most of the way towards competing with the AwesomeBar, with the bonus [...]

By: Antipode - Article - Safari 4: Webkit gets dressed up

Antipode - Article - Safari 4: Webkit gets dressed up — Wed, 25 Feb 2009 10:35:35 +0000

[...] Safari’s Location Bar is still relatively primitive. So for me, for now, Safari 4 is just a pretty toy to play [...]

By: Antipode - Link - Chromey Goodness

Antipode - Link - Chromey Goodness — Thu, 11 Dec 2008 23:04:00 +0000

[...] love what they’re doing with the Location Bar (my favourite part of a browser) but until there’s a Mac version I won’t be able to really challenge [...]

By: Antipode - Article - Ten Tidbits from IE8

Antipode - Article - Ten Tidbits from IE8 — Sat, 11 Oct 2008 10:24:03 +0000

[...] to delete any potentially scandalous history items from within the suggestion bar. I love to see location bar innovation. [...]

By: Antipode - Article - Two down, n to go

Antipode - Article - Two down, n to go — Tue, 15 Jul 2008 08:26:09 +0000

[...] set some goals here for the coming year. In the short term, I’m going to write more articles, rather than just one-paragraph links. I like the links, but they’re an easy out. In the [...]

By: Cory

Cory — Wed, 26 Mar 2008 23:53:58 +0000

whoops, I should have known better than to use angle brackets. I meant control-L, “g”, tab, enter.

By: Cory

Cory — Wed, 26 Mar 2008 23:51:38 +0000

I completely agree with this post. Firefox 3′s title bar is awesome. There is one small problem that I hope they fix before the release though:

The new bar previews when typing in an address are much taller than in FF2. This makes them drop down quite a bit farther into the middle of the window, where I normally have my cursor resting. When I start typing -L, “g”, , , to try and get to google, it instead tabs down the list to whatever my mouse cursor happened to be hovering over. This has been driving me nuts ever since I started using the beta.

By: Steven Fisher

Steven Fisher — Tue, 25 Mar 2008 18:45:56 +0000

By the way, your server’s clock is off.

By: Steven Fisher

Steven Fisher — Tue, 25 Mar 2008 18:45:21 +0000

To elaborate on my last comment a little, those who says “The location bar should do a search, too!” are those who are trying to estimate how many users want to use it that way. A good interface adapts to its users, but a great interface adapts to its users in a natural and predictable way.

By: Steven Fisher

Steven Fisher — Tue, 25 Mar 2008 15:55:44 +0000

On the contrary, I make no attempts to estimate how many users want URL based auto-completion. I only say that’s how I want the location bar to work. If I want to do a search, I’ll do a search.

There are times it’s alright to search two namespaces at once, but after using it for a few weeks I really don’t think this is one of them.