Comments on: How to Bring Back “http://” in Firefox 7

By: Bill

Bill — Fri, 22 Jun 2012 04:00:28 +0000

Thanks for the tip. I also recommend to anyone who prefers a normal status bar, the add-on called “status-4-eva” which brings back the old status bar, which I much prefer to having the Chrome-like URL pop-over at the bottom.

By: Zoffix Znet

Zoffix Znet — Fri, 01 Jun 2012 14:21:30 +0000

Thanks a lot for the fix. This “feature” was annoying as hell.

Firefox devs must be really boring, adding all the useless crap.

By: Jaylen

Jaylen — Tue, 13 Dec 2011 19:28:06 +0000

Aprpeciaiton for this information is over 9000-thank you!

By: Kristy

Kristy — Thu, 06 Oct 2011 10:18:03 +0000

Thanks! I can’t imagine any web developer who would prefer to have urls shortened..

By: will

will — Mon, 03 Oct 2011 00:37:36 +0000

So if it’s not there, you know it’s HTTP. This means it is actually MORE obvious that something is HTTPS because it takes up 8 extra characters instead of 1…

By: Matt

Matt — Sun, 02 Oct 2011 22:48:18 +0000

I’m aware of the reasoning for domain highlighting. But I’m confident in my ability to recognize subdomains and misspelled domains. It makes sense for some people, but it just bothers me.

The greyed-out parts of the URL just make it harder to see the parts that I tend to be more interested in. When you’re doing any sort of web development, you spend a lot more time looking at the file path and query string than the domain.

By: Matt

Matt — Sun, 02 Oct 2011 22:40:08 +0000

I have the same feeling about Chrome. Also, I there are some keyboard shortcut issues—and Firebug, too, of course—that keep me on Firefox.

By: Matt

Matt — Sun, 02 Oct 2011 22:36:51 +0000

I didn’t keep the “trimURLs” feature on long enough to visit an HTTPS site. I looked for a way to turn it off as soon as I noticed it.

It’s good that they keep it for non-HTTP protocols, at least.

By: Sean

Sean — Sun, 02 Oct 2011 21:59:16 +0000

They don’t hide it if it’s HTTPS. Be honest, you haven’t even used Firefox 7 have you?

By: Sean

Sean — Sun, 02 Oct 2011 21:58:20 +0000

Um, yeah. Chrome has been doing this for several major versions now (hiding http:// but showing https://).

Firefox has been copying lots of UI stuff from Chrome – which is fine in my opinion, as Chrome has a lot of neat stuff going on. But I’d say if you’re unhappy with the tweaks Firefox is making, then you’ll *hate* Chrome, because that’s where Firefox is taking a lot of inspiration from.

For the record, I love Firefox, it’s been my main browser since version 0.1. There’s a lot of things I like about Chrome and I’m glad Firefox is copying them, but there’s sitll just something not quite “right” about Chrome when I use it. I can’t explain it though.