Firefox 3.0 Download Day (Guinness World Record)

The Oldbar extension restores the appearance (but not behaviour) of the Fx2 dropdown, or you can tweak browser.urlbar.maxRichResults.
 
Downloaded, installed and all seems good to me. Noticably quicker than the previous version too, which is nice.
 
Downloaded. At least they've finally done what appears to be a decent Mac version that runs on electrons rather than syrup.
 
While reading Slashdot I stumbled upon this:
Here is how to get more or less the old behavior [from the URL bar]. Go to about:config and set browser.urlbar.matchOnlyTyped to true and browser.urlbar.richResults to false. Then restart.

Does that work for you folks who don't like the "awesome bar?"
 
The Smart Location/Awesome Bar learns based on what you type and what you select from the dropdown, so it's something that gets better with time.

matchOnlyTyped will still search in the middle of URLs, so if you type something like "thread" it'll show a thread on here.
There's a load of bugs to be able to set modifiers to search bookmarks, history etc. Screenshots (and links to bugs) here.
 
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