A smarter, simpler Firefox address bar

[neme@lemm.ee]

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[plzgivhugs@sh.itjust.works]

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?

[kbal@fedia.io]

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.

[kbal@fedia.io]

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.

[sidtirouluca@lemm.ee]

yes, more fucking white space between text! i like new UIs but this spacewasting is stupid. we have monitors, not phones.

[plwt@mstdn.social]

@kbal Hi. Thank you for flagging up that incorrect link, I will see if we can get that fixed.

#fxhelp

[lastunusedusername2@sh.itjust.works]

We’ve simplified the address bar by trimming “https://”/ 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.

[paulmasson@mathstodon.xyz]

@kbal @neme in which area are you located? The US page has a link to Bluesky but not Twitter:

https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/

[kbal@fedia.io]

Canada, but I too see the bsky link on 'www' — it's the 'blog' hostname that links to twitter instead.

[bitwolf@sh.itjust.works]

It would be helpful if they fix the bug that renders the address bar unclickable

[endymion_mallorn@kbin.melroy.org]

No. Good grief, no. I hope that Firefox dies from a lack of Google money before they release this garbage.

[afreelarryhoover@lemmy.world]

lol gross

[palordrolap@fedia.io]

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.

[shihali@sh.itjust.works]

What is the setting in about:config to opt out of this?

[terabytes@lemm.ee]

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.

[neme@lemm.ee]

Should be browser.urlbar.scotchBonnet.enableOverride for now

[lnxtx@feddit.nl]

Don't kill my search bar.

[blisterexe@lemmy.zip]

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

[mindbleach@sh.itjust.works]

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!

[markstos@lemmy.world]

The only thing that wasn’t clear from the article was how to put a URL in the URL bar.