"old" address bar???

Is there any way to get the "old" (pre-9.5) addressbar back or tell it
to  
NOT show page titles and dates?

With 9.5, it changed from showing matching URIs as you type, to showing  
the first part of a matching URI, the first part of a matching page title,  
and the first part of the last visited date. This makes it essentially  
useless, if the window width is below some arbitrary size. Where before I  
could distinguish and select from visited URIs, e.g.

http://www.example.com/page1.html
http://www.example.com/page2.html
http://www.example.com/page3.html

Now, everything can look exactly the same, especially if there are no page  
titles:

http://www.example.com/pag...  http://www.example.com/pag... Today ...
http://www.example.com/pag...  http://www.example.com/pag... Today ...

in message <op.t8g5mqm1vfsxwr@msauve-1.corp.nortel.com>,
wrote Mike Sauve ...

> Is there any way to get the "old" (pre-9.5) addressbar back or
> tell it to  NOT show page titles and dates?
>
> With 9.5, it changed from showing matching URIs as you type, to
> showing  the first part of a matching URI, the first part of a
> matching page title,  and the first part of the last visited date.
> This makes it essentially  useless, if the window width is below
> some arbitrary size. Where before I  could distinguish and select
> from visited URIs, e.g.
>
> http://www.example.com/page1.html
> http://www.example.com/page2.html
>
> Now, everything can look exactly the same, especially if there are
> no page  titles:
>
> http://www.example.com/pag...  http://www.example.com/pag... Today ...
> http://www.example.com/pag...  http://www.example.com/pag... Today ...

I am using "Opera/9.25 (X11; FreeBSD 6 i386; U; en)".  I do not see
a date (thankfully), but do see URLs & titles (URL in lieu of a
title for a page missing actual title).

So far I have not been bothered /often/ by the presence of title,
but would be good if there were a way to turn off presence of the
title.

Do wish Opera to gain the sense of not showing an URL as a title in
the address bar.


  - parv

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On Sun, 23 Mar 2008 11:07:28 -0400, "Mike Sauve"
<mikes@flatsurface.com>
wrote:

>Is there any way to get the "old" (pre-9.5) addressbar back or
tell it to  
>NOT show page titles and dates?
>
>With 9.5, it changed from showing matching URIs as you type, to showing  
>the first part of a matching URI, the first part of a matching page title, 

>and the first part of the last visited date. This makes it essentially  
>useless, if the window width is below some arbitrary size. Where before I  
>could distinguish and select from visited URIs, e.g.
>
>http://www.example.com/page1.html
>http://www.example.com/page2.html
>http://www.example.com/page3.html
>
>Now, everything can look exactly the same, especially if there are no page 

>titles:
>
>http://www.example.com/pag...  http://www.example.com/pag... Today ...
>http://www.example.com/pag...  http://www.example.com/pag... Today ...
>http://www.example.com/pag...  http://www.example.com/pag... Today ...


I wonder if that is why Opera started to store tens of megabytes of data in
a vps directory under profile?  I now routinely delete the vps directory in
order to prevent long (multi-second) pauses when I type in URI's.