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(Credit: CNET Networks)

There’s no better way to incur user wrath than to change one of the fundamental features of a product. Apple’s been doing it for years with each revision, usually prompting a positive cheer from most while alienating a certain margin of its fervent user base that vows to never buy or use the product again. Browser maker Mozilla is not without its own minority that appears to be up in arms about the updated address bar.

Dubbed the “awesome bar” by the company, the updated version drops in a mix of your bookmarks and browser history as you type. For example, if you’ve got CNN.com bookmarked, or have visited it in the past, simply typing in a “C” would drop down a stream of links with some of the most relevant or highly visited sites rising to the top. It’s been designed as a time-saver, but a group of users have come down on the new feature because it can’t be turned off easily and has a quirky habit of putting some links in front of others.

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