all talk and no action

I've just got around to downloading Firefox 3 and one feature that makes this a must-have browser for me is the way you can search your bookmarks from the address bar. (Apparently it's faster, too, but I can't say I've noticed a whole lot of difference.)

With Windows Vista, I've got used to being able to hit the Windows key and type 'photo' to launch Photoshop instead of clicking through the program menus, or to type a word that I know is in an email or Word document and get it to fast. This has been a massive time-saver and it's always frustrated me that I can't do the same with my bookmarks -- until Firefox 3 came along.

I also love the way that when I start to type a web address, web sites that I bookmarked years ago are revealed in the drop-down menu. Whenever I type 'hot' for Hotmail, for example, the first suggestion is a recipe for hot artichoke and spinach dip that I bookmarked ages ago and never got around to making. So now I get a daily reminder :)

By the way, I know you can search IE's Favorites straight from the Windows Vista Start Search box, which is conceivably even more convenient, but for some reason I haven't used it much. Handy as it is, I still launch a web browser and go from there.