UrlbarExt makes the Firefox awesome bar even more so

The Firefox "awesome bar" in Firefox 3.0 is a location bar, search box, and history box all one package. But if that's not enough for you, UrlbarExt is a add-on that adds even more features to the awesome bar.

The plugin adds a bunch of icons to the right side of the bar, which let you do things like copy the URL of the site you're on with a single click, shorten the URL using TinyURL or a similar service, go up one level or all the way back to the root web page, tag or bookmark a page, or use a proxy server to surf anonymously. You can also search the page using Google or another search engine.

There are a bunch of customization options allowing you to change your default search engine, URL shortener, or adjust which icons show up in the awesome bar.

On the other hand, if you think the awesome bar is less than awesome and you just want an old fashioned URL bar, you can always disable it.

[via Lifehacker]

Tags: add-ons, awesome-bar, firefox, freeware, urlbarext