I've been using Mozilla since M12 or so, but the awesome bar drives me crazy. If I start typing "nytimes," I want it to find www.nytimes.com. I don't want it to find a blog entry whose title is "NYTimes Fails Again" or some page at the nytimes that I visited more recently than the homepage (like www.nytimes.com/oped/krugman14.html).

I know the sites I browse to. I just want Firefox to autocomplete to the domain. I don't need it to search my browser history for me, because I know where I want to go.

I'm not saying that the Awesome Bar is bad, or attacking people who do like it. I just don't like it, and I finally decided recently to downgrade back to 2.0. I hope Firefox 3.1 gives us a lot more control over how the Awesome Bar operates.

No kidding. Thought some guy in my research group was nuts when he told me Britney knew a lot about band structure of semiconductors. But turns out, it's true!