fragility

As I’ve written before, I’ve been using Firefox 3, and as with everyone else, one of the first changes I noticed was the Awesome Bar. At first I didn’t really knew what to think about it, and then it started to annoy me a bit but when I changed my mindset and started using it the “Gnome Do way”, I started to get along with it.

However, something still annoys me a lot.

If the mouse pointer is hovering above the area where the bar is going to appear, then the option below the pointer gets automatically selected. That way, if I want to use the first result given by the awesome bar, I can’t just press the down arrow and use it. I either have to press the up arrow some times or move the mouse there, and that way the awesomeness disappears. It completely defeats the purpose.

This didn’t happen with the old bar, and it doesn’t happen with the search box. On the search box, an item only gets selected with the mouse pointer after you move the pointer.

I’ve been searching the bug tracker but I haven’t found anything similar. Can anyone confirm if this is still present on the latest builds ?

Hopefully this will get corrected before the final release, otherwise this is going to be a huge usability flaw which is sure to annoy many more users.