The other day a friend of mine suddenly freaked out when he saw a long list of bookmarks drop down every time he started typing a URL into the address bar in Firefox. I couldn’t understand the confusion because I thought everyone knew about “The Awesome Bar” in Firefox 3 and how to disable it. Well, it turns out that he had just installed Firefox 3 and knew nothing about the “helpful” Awesome Bar. It was very clear that he didn’t want any part of it so I sent him a link explaining how to disable it. The response I got was, “That looks confusing, I’ll just install the old bar”. I found that unacceptable and decided that if he didn’t know how to disable it, others may not either. It’s a very quick fix and I think the screencast below should help anyone who would rather see how to disable it rather then read about how to disable it. Oh, and I just noticed that it seems The Awesome Bar is now called the Smart Location Bar. Whatever it’s called, if you want to learn how to make it stop, watch the screencast below: -by Molly McDonald-

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