Comments on: beta4 http://www.magicspatula.com/blog/2008/03/10/beta4/ Matt Casey's Blog Sat, 31 Dec 2011 19:29:54 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3 By: Matt http://www.magicspatula.com/blog/2008/03/10/beta4/comment-page-1/#comment-44 Matt Thu, 13 Mar 2008 06:03:28 +0000 http://www.magicspatula.com/blog/2008/03/10/beta4/#comment-44 Very cool.. looking forward to beta 5. Unfortunately I'm still on firefox 2 at work since my desktop doesn't have gtk2.10, but my other machines are all switched now. Very cool.. looking forward to beta 5. Unfortunately I’m still on firefox 2 at work since my desktop doesn’t have gtk2.10, but my other machines are all switched now.

]]> By: Ted Mielczarek http://www.magicspatula.com/blog/2008/03/10/beta4/comment-page-1/#comment-41 Ted Mielczarek Tue, 11 Mar 2008 11:56:42 +0000 http://www.magicspatula.com/blog/2008/03/10/beta4/#comment-41 Yeah, it's pretty much the best beta ever. The PGO on Win32 made it about 10% faster. The turbo button on OS X helped a lot too (http://blog.vlad1.com/2008/02/28/finding-the-os-x-turbo-button/). I still have a few tricks up my sleeve, so we still might get even faster on OS X for beta 5. Also, the awesomebar got some tweaks that make it delightful to use again. Specifically, the learning algorithm got better, it now gives priority to matching the start of words/domains, and it can match multiple words that you've typed in any part of the URL or title. I realized yesterday that I typed two words in a page title in the wrong order, and it still matched them just fine. Awesome! Yeah, it’s pretty much the best beta ever. The PGO on Win32 made it about 10% faster. The turbo button on OS X helped a lot too (http://blog.vlad1.com/2008/02/28/finding-the-os-x-turbo-button/). I still have a few tricks up my sleeve, so we still might get even faster on OS X for beta 5.

Also, the awesomebar got some tweaks that make it delightful to use again. Specifically, the learning algorithm got better, it now gives priority to matching the start of words/domains, and it can match multiple words that you’ve typed in any part of the URL or title. I realized yesterday that I typed two words in a page title in the wrong order, and it still matched them just fine. Awesome!

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