More firefox 3 stuff

OK, I figured out another reason the location bar in firefox 3 seemed to busy for me. In firefox 2, it only includes URLs that I’ve typed in before, so when I type in ‘reader’ to get to Google Reader, I get one listing:

Now, the firefox 3 location bar searches the titles and URLs of the items in my history, not just things I’ve typed in before, so this includes a variety of URLs that aren’t too useful:

Almost all of these links will send me to the same place. Of course, I can delete all the entries I don’t want (use the arrows to select the entry, then shift+delete), but they’ll just come back after I visit the site again. I really don’t have a good solution to this problem. It isn’t a huge problem, really, as the URL I wanted was still first on the list. I’m tempted to say that it should notice that whenever I type ‘reader’ I’m selecting the first option, and then hide the remaining options behind a “more” button or something, but that sounds a lot like the way MS Office hides menu options: a feature I never liked.

By the way, you can run multiple copies of firefox at once (including different versions) if you launch it correctly. They just can’t use the same profile. Launch the second copy like this:
firefox -no-remote -profilemanager

To run multiple browsers and sync the profile info, you could try Google Browser Sync.