I'm still digging Phoenix, but now it's replaced my disabled forward and back buttons with white and orange bars. Bookmarking a set of tabs is nice, and I love how Phoenix treats them as first-order folders instead of special tab-bookmarks, but mostly I use the feature to save what I'm reading while I restart the browser to clear some glitch like that.
Also, it'd be nice if the frozen page tab icon were more distinguishable from the animated in-action one. I think I may hack on it to flatten out the angle, if possible.
And I keep typing Google queries into the location bar, then copying them to the search bar (ctrl-K instead of ctrl-L). A little annoying, especially as if you enter a phrase with spaces into the location bar, Phoenix will search for it. You have to go to user.js to pick a search engine, and with no way to tell the location bar "this is a search," you also have to wait for single-word searches to be tried as domain names before Phoenix will Google for them. Quite nice to have a dropdown search history, though.
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I’ve typically just used the “bookmark keywords” feature in Mozilla and Phoenix, rather than the search bar. This allows me to tell the address bar that I want to search for something, and it allows me to specify what I want to search with (I have keywords defined for google, imdb, freedb, and various others.)
Strangely enough, typing “bookmark keywords” in the address bar seems to bring up the documentation.
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foreheadslap I forgot you could use those for that. I have several (like a whole set for LiveJournal), but forgot I could just set some up for normal search engines.