I disliked the “Awesome Bar” at first, but now I’ve become addicted to its URL substring matching for autocomplete: for example, to go to the Tumblr Dashboard, I just type “dash” (autocompletes to
http://www.tumblr.com/dashboardbased on the substring match), down, Enter. In Safari, I’d have to type “tumblr.com/d” at minimum, and I’ve never quite been able to reliably use Safari’s autocomplete without frequent accidents.
I think the FF navigation toolbar is awesome as long as the oldbar plugin is installed … I can’t stand the two-line presentation of addresses in the drop-down.
