I thought the new location bar stuff was my favorite new Firefox 3 feature. While still a contender, it turns out I have a new fave — the “Most Visited” toolbar menu.
You can see it quietly lurking at the left side of the bookmarks toolbar:
I think it was there when I was trying the betas, but I don’t recall ever actually using it. Now, after just 24 hours of using Release Candidate 1, I’m already in love with it. It’s dynamic. It changes over time. It’s just that swell.
Here’s what mine currently looks like:
What makes this neat? Well, most of those links come from various start pages (like Netvibes and iGoogle). To visit them, I tab back to the start page — or re-open it — for the URL as I sure don’t bother trying to memorize URLs anymore! With this Most Visited feature, I can get to those oft visited sites quicker and with fewer clicks.
I guess it could be (kind of) compared to Opera’s Speed Dial (my last mention of that) with a twist. While Speed Dial shows thumbnails of the pages, it’s not dynamic or adaptive. However, with Opera 9.50, it can be synced across multiple machines running Opera. Most Visited cannot.
My thoughts on browsers seem to get disrupted every few months…
What are some other great features in Firefox 3 that have been noticed? I hate to miss out on anything.
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May 18th, 2008 
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I deleted it without thinking about it. Now I want it back but I’m not sure if I can do so. Any ideas?
Edit: I found the answer:
http://lifehacker.com/387944/how-to-make-your-own-smart-bookmarks-in-firefox-3
i deleted this by mistake. is there a way to get it back?
@lora – have a look at the comment immediately before yours… or check this mozilla support link.
I think this would be great if it was limited to one or two sites per domain, unfortunately, it’s totally useless for me, because it fills up with ten different links to gmail (inbox, inbox with some minor differences in url, spam, other folders, etc.) and no other websites!
For me, non-adaptive speed-dial type things are considerably better than things which adaptively “learn” that I spend a lot of time reading and replying to emails… though perhaps I should learn something from that myself…
@Gerard – bingo and thanks for the note. At the end of the day, this feature has become worthless to me. Shame, cause it could be so useful.
Hopefully in the future they’ll model it more on the Google Chrome’s version. Still adaptive, but doesn’t get all cluttered up with the same sites/different titles.