Suggest Nothing

Firefox's "Awesome Bar" is touted as a major feature. Besides entering URLs, it lets you browse to recent sites and enter incomplete data to reach often-used sites without explicitly adding bookmarks.

I decided to turn it off, and I think it was a good decision.

My reasoning: When I had it on, I would simply rely on the top five or six sites I had listed for "something to do" any time I was at the computer, bored, and didn't know what to do. But, of course, the Internet is not five or six sites. It's millions.

I bookmark things that are useful to my immediate work. "Fun sites" I have to remember the URL and manually enter now, or laboriously browse through my history to find. It encourages both restraint and curiosity, because it changes the results of effort: instead of typing in the same old URL, I could try punching something new into Google and see what comes up. And more often than not, that's a more productive and valuable option than the various online echo chambers that I would naturally gravitate to.