I don’t know how recent this change is but I noticed #Firefox removed https:// from the address bar so now every link and every website I visit looks insecure. I know there is a padlock icon next to the address bar but it doesn’t seem quite as easily scannable to me.
@[email protected] you can activate it again by going to about:config and searching for browser.urlbar.trimURLs, set it to false.
@[email protected] do you consider this to be false? A site can be insecure even over HTTPS. It is insecure if it is over HTTP, and firefox is displaying this for me:
@[email protected] But the red line through the padlock, “not secure” callout, and “http://” in the address bar is very in your face when visiting a connection that’s not secure.
Yea, it should be an option burred some place. But I got over it. I’m bothered that sometimes I cut&paste the URL and it get the
https://though it wasn’t highlighted when I cut it.@[email protected] imho it’s a good step, as there still are plenty of websites and systems that do not use https.
You might change it in a config but you 've already known this.
@[email protected] Yeah ! I noticed that too with the version 140.
@[email protected] Interesting, my firefox is still showing https yet, I just got an updated version of the browser.
@[email protected] and it doesn’t help that the padlock and other components on the address bar is just slightly darker grey on a grey background (at least on my system, with Firefox 140.0).
@[email protected] Oh … yeah, yesterday i noticed an odd behaviour, when i tried to “mark and copy” an URL from the adress bar. Suddenly, the text jumped sideways. It never did that before.
I am not fond of that change too. It is an attempt to hide information, and it does not matter, if there’s some kind of symbol for it.
@[email protected] In my case, what you describe after the update to 140 did not happen. But there are one (or two) settings relevant in the About:config screen.
I once changed the browser.urlbar.trimURL setting to “False” (as it should be :-) ). That setting was not altered to the default “true” in my case.
That setting alters both the displaying of http:// and https:// to display it or not.There is also the setting: browser.urlbar.trimHttps
That only focuses itself to https. 1/2@[email protected]
I get a pop-up if I try to go to a site without https, so showing it is redundant.Not sure if that’s a Firefox thing, or one of the plugins.
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I use the extension https everywhere.
So I get notified when a website is only http. Might help your problem.@[email protected] Must have been part of the update I keep refusing; mine still shows the https. Good to know. (I’m running 137.0.2)
@[email protected] Why show the protocol at all if they’re not going to differentiate? 🤔
@[email protected] almost positive showing full urls int he address bar always is a flag? it definitey is in chromium.
I get what you’re saying though… I feel (and have long felt) quite strongly that there is zero reasonable case for obscuring any one part of a given url/path and the only result is this sort of confusion.
