We’ve simplified the address bar by trimming “https://xn--ivg/ from secure sites, while clearly highlighting when a site isn’t secure. This small change improves clarity without sacrificing awareness.
Ugh, fuck this. Show me the entire url.
this post was submitted on 24 May 2025
56 points (100.0% liked)
Firefox
85 readers
41 users here now
The latest news and developments on Firefox and Mozilla, a global non-profit that strives to promote openness, innovation and opportunity on the web.
You can subscribe to this community from any Kbin or Lemmy instance:
Related
- Firefox Customs: [email protected]
- Thunderbird: [email protected]
Rules
While we are not an official Mozilla community, we have adopted the Mozilla Community Participation Guidelines as far as it can be applied to a bin.
Rules
-
Always be civil and respectful
Don't be toxic, hostile, or a troll, especially towards Mozilla employees. This includes gratuitous use of profanity. -
Don't be a bigot
No form of bigotry will be tolerated. -
Don't post security compromising suggestions
If you do, include an obvious and clear warning. -
Don't post conspiracy theories
Especially ones about nefarious intentions or funding. If you're concerned: Ask. Please don’t fuel conspiracy thinking here. Don’t try to spread FUD, especially against reliable privacy-enhancing software. Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence. Show credible sources. -
Don't accuse others of shilling
Send honest concerns to the moderators and/or admins, and we will investigate. -
Do not remove your help posts after they receive replies
Half the point of asking questions in a public sub is so that everyone can benefit from the answers—which is impossible if you go deleting everything behind yourself once you've gotten yours.
founded 2 years ago
MODERATORS
I don't see the problem, given it'll still show the full url if you click on it, and it will highlight when it's http
Fuck off with hiding the URL, ever. Including the protocol.
For the last fifteen years, the best course of action has been, STOP COPYING CHROME. People who want what Chrome does - just use Chrome! We didn't choose a different browser because we want a different icon!
Yeah exactly! Get rid of that stupid tab bar - Chrome has it, so why should another browser? Tab groups? No use! Easy-to-use profiles? Chuck 'm out!
(aka even though Chrome does a lot of stuff that's wrong, not everything Chrome does is wrong by definition.)
This is a change that's already been tried and reverted, and it was less than 10 years ago. What's the point in doing it again? Changing the semantic representation of a URL does not help anyone, and only encourages misunderstandings that lead to security issues.
What is the setting in about:config to opt out of this?
Should be browser.urlbar.scotchBonnet.enableOverride for now
Thank you!
Who requested these changes? Was it the brainchild of someone who thinks they know what people want? Or is this more a case of telling people what's good for them? If it's the latter, I have several unprintable suggestions that would be just as good for the person doing the telling.
Can those of us who didn't request this feature and don't want it have an easily accessible option to turn it off? Or at least an option to show the old-school URL*? Bury it in about:config if you absolutely must, but please leave it available.
*Edit: By which I mean visible like it is in older versions of Firefox, not hidden behind something that has to be clicked every time the page changes.
Is it just me being set in my ways, or does this look terrible? It seems like its going to make it harder to use URLs and clutter up what was previously clean, functional UI just to highlight rarely-used commands.
Edit: Also isn't hiding the url a security issue? How else do you recognize phishing sites?
Eh well, one more widget to remove in userChrome.css maybe. Doesn't look like it should break anything.
If anyone from Mozilla happens to read this, the link to "Firefox version 138" on the version of the page I'm looking at goes to the v137 release notes.
And while I'm looking at a mozilla.org web page let me just add for the record that it is abhorrent in mine eyes that even this far into 2025 there remains at the bottom of it a link to twitter (literally twitter.com) and not one to mastodon.
@[email protected] @[email protected] in which area are you located? The US page has a link to Bluesky but not Twitter:
Canada, but I too see the bsky link on 'www' — it's the 'blog' hostname that links to twitter instead.
@[email protected] Hi. Thank you for flagging up that incorrect link, I will see if we can get that fixed.
#fxhelp
yes, more fucking white space between text! i like new UIs but this spacewasting is stupid. we have monitors, not phones.
I guess I'm the only loser nerd to like this change. They basically turned the address bar into a command line. It reminds me of Vimperator command line of the wild pre-extension revamp days when you had commands to do or automate pretty much anything with keyboard commands. You could actually use the browser without a mouse. Good times.
Nah, you and I are the only loser nerds who like it and are crazy enough to leave a comment.
I don't like it, but I appreciate your opinion. I'm open to being convinced it's cool, so hearing positive opinions is a positive
Thank you
The only thing that wasn’t clear from the article was how to put a URL in the URL bar.
Don't kill my search bar.
It would be helpful if they fix the bug that renders the address bar unclickable
Ah that's this one I think? It sounded like they've got a feeling for what's happening, so hopefully they'll manage to find out what causes it and fix it. Either way didn't sound like it was unfixed for lack of attention.
No. Good grief, no. I hope that Firefox dies from a lack of Google money before they release this garbage.
lol gross