Firefox 3.1, which is scheduled to ship before the end on the year, will incorporate new ways to filter the results shown in the Smart Location Bar’s drop down list. Something that many Firefox 3.0.x users are looking forward to having. One of the reasons that this could not be done in time for the release Firefox 3.0 is that “History” had yet to be incorporated into the SQLite database that currently takes care of such things as bookmark and tagging data.
At present these additional “filtering” functions consist of several new entries in 3.1’s “about:config” that allow the user to just about tailor the results shown in the drop down list just about any way they wish. Permanent changes such as restricting results to show only visited sites (taken from your “History”) for example, can be made using “about:config”. However, changing the results shown in the list “on the fly” so to speak can be taken care of right from the Location Bar itself.
For examples of how these new functions work together in Firefox 3.1 to provide the users the ability to get the results they want to see, Edward Lee, author of the Hide Unvisited extension for Firefox 3, was kind enough to write up a post about this very thing on his personal blog.
Looks like the “Smart Bar” is going to get all that much better. Can’t wait to see how the extension authors leverage these new functions.
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Tags: awsome bar, Firefox 3, Firefox 3.1, location bar
