Firefox 8

[darkoshi]

I finally switched my shortcuts over from the 3.6 version of Firefox to the 8.0 version. I wish they had kept the status bar. I much prefer the URLs to display unobtrusively on the status bar where I can look at them if I want to, rather than being distracted by a window which pops up and disappears. ... oh yay, this add-on prevents the popups and instead mimics the old functionality by displaying the URLs in the add-on bar.

I also wonder what happened to the little lock icon that you used to get, when you were on a secure/encrypted site... ah, this page explains it.

Comments

[andrewducker]

Are you using bookmark synchronisation to keep your bookmarks backed up? Worth doing if you're using a lot of them - and built into FF nowadays.

[darkoshi]

I'll have to look into that. I didn't realize it yesterday, but it explains why a page that I was sure I had bookmarked was missing from my bookmarks - because I had bookmarked it in the 3.6 version after having imported my bookmarks into the newer version.

For my most-used links, I have a customized home page which displays them all, positioned nicely so that they are easy to find and click.