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Re:Firefox 75.0 by Andrew_nenakhov on Friday April 10, 2020 @07:52AM (#22832063)
I, for one, am absolutely fine with this. I have updated FF recently and didn't even notice any changes, had to look up what had changed after stumbling on this comment. I interact with address bar a lot, copy-pasting parts of URL all the time.

As long as they don't by default hide https:// and parts of URL from the address bar itself in Safari/Chrome style , I'm ok with it not shown in suggestions.

(I have a big 24" screen though, maybe that affects somehow).

Re:Firefox 75.0 by stonogo on Friday April 10, 2020 @01:53PM (#22835473)
Not only do they by default hide that, they've also removed the preference to show it.

https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1627988

Re:Firefox 75.0 by Andrew_nenakhov on Friday April 10, 2020 @03:42PM (#22836627)
I don't know what you're talking about. Here's what I see [1], I actually like highlighting on main domain. If they'll remove https:// from my URL box, I'll grab a pitchfork myself, but for now I see no signs of it happening.

[1]: https://tinyurl.com/umluadw

Re:Firefox 75.0 by wtallis on Friday April 10, 2020 @05:21PM (#22837485)
Re:Firefox 75.0 by kilburn on Saturday April 11, 2020 @03:08AM (#22840132)
That patch seems to remove the option of striping the http(s) from the url bar. That is, you always get the http(s) and there's no option not to view that anymore.

Am I missing something?

Re:Firefox 75.0 by diggernet on Thursday April 16, 2020 @08:13PM (#22894954)
Yes. Scroll down to the code change in UrlbarResult.jsm.

The option to control stripping was removed, and the code, rather than checking that option, /always/ strips.

Re:Firefox 75.0 by ac29 on Friday April 10, 2020 @02:34PM (#22836005)
Is that only in Nightly? My Firefox 75 shows the https and the full URL, and I havent changed any about:config settings.
Re:Firefox 75.0 by wyre on Friday April 10, 2020 @04:19PM (#22836958)
My Nightly 77 shows the full URL and https and I also haven't changed about:config settings.
Re:Firefox 75.0 by class4behavior on Friday April 10, 2020 @02:55PM (#22836203)
That's a temporary entry so, of course, it would be removed eventually.
Re:Firefox 75.0 by jsjddbbwj on Friday April 10, 2020 @09:25AM (#22832752)
I don't believe for a single second you haven't noticed the new url bar animation.
Re:Firefox 75.0 by Tagbert on Friday April 10, 2020 @11:00AM (#22833687)
It’s really not bad. It is a change. You might consider keeping it enabled for a couple of weeks and see if you still hate it so much after the new wears off.
Re:Firefox 75.0 by hombre_fatal on Friday April 10, 2020 @08:55PM (#22838869)
I barely noticed it even after reading HNers whine about it. They said it covered other UI components. In reality it grows a few pixels. I wouldn't have noticed it had I not read HN, that's for sure.
Re:Firefox 75.0 by Andrew_nenakhov on Friday April 10, 2020 @10:10AM (#22833166)
What animation???
Re:Firefox 75.0 by maest on Friday April 10, 2020 @03:12PM (#22836352)
I assume the GP is talking about the search bar becoming slightly bigger on focus.
Re:Firefox 75.0 by Andrew_nenakhov on Friday April 10, 2020 @06:12PM (#22837848)
Oh, the horror!
Re:Firefox 75.0 by lawnchair_larry on Friday April 10, 2020 @10:55AM (#22833638)
I’ve been using Nightly for a long time and I have no idea what this is about.
Re:Firefox 75.0 by a_wild_dandan on Friday April 10, 2020 @06:57PM (#22838208)
I still legitimately don't see what people are describing about the address bar. I haven't noticed a change the entire time I've used Firefox (about year). Could someone post a before-and-after screenshot or something? (I've been using Firefox Developer Edition too if that makes a difference?)
Re:Firefox 75.0 by chungy on Friday April 10, 2020 @07:51PM (#22838561)
Re:Firefox 75.0 by lawnchair_larry on Friday April 10, 2020 @07:56PM (#22838596)
Yeah, my nightly build just got it. I hate it. I hate the new tab style too. And they got rid of dark mode?