h2g2 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: Earth Edition

Okay, so, I've finally gotten Firefox 3.

So far, most of the problems I'm having are with a few plugins which were being compatible with Firefox 3 (in some cases, they'd last been updated in 2006!), but in most cases either most of their functionality is built into Firefox 3, or I can easily hack the .xpi files (which are just .zips in disguise) to include Firefox 3 in the "allowed versions", which has only caused problems in a few cases. (Now, if only I could get Show All History into a sidebar ...)

My biggest complaint is with the Awesome Bar, which they would have done better to call the Obnoxious Bar, and apparently I'm not alone in thinking this. I have to get an add-on which *disables* it and restores the URL Bar to the Firefox 2 functionality. I am not making this up, and I wish I was.

Meanwhile, on TVTropes, I discovered the existence of an Audio Drama called "The Dead Girl"; the title character is named Annabelle Sykes. By a complete coincidence, I'd been considering this name for a character in my own writings. Oh well, guess I'll have to go with something else ...

From first tries, I actually like the ....bar (superlative left out as a courtesy ).

Cuts quite a bit of url entry short in my way of doing things. And bookmarking with a single click's nice.

Oh, FF3 doesn't work with my netbank - that'll come some time, I guess.

Actually, it does - looked like c**p earlier today and didn't get the java bit right. Now it's fine

Well, to each their own, really. It's just that I *very much* prefer Firefox 2's way of doing things.

Also, correction: the aforementioned plugin does not, in fact, change the URL bar's functionality to what it was before. It merely makes it *look* sort of like Firefox 2's URL bar.