{"id":457,"date":"2011-09-28T16:15:01","date_gmt":"2011-09-28T16:15:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/paulgurney.com\/whats_new_blog\/?p=457"},"modified":"2011-09-28T16:35:01","modified_gmt":"2011-09-28T16:35:01","slug":"firefox-7-brings-speed-and-ui-annoyances","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/paulgurney.com\/whats_new_blog\/2011\/09\/firefox-7-brings-speed-and-ui-annoyances\/","title":{"rendered":"Firefox 7 brings speed and UI annoyances"},"content":{"rendered":"

1.<\/h2>\n

For power users who need their address bar to show the “http:\/\/<\/strong>” in a web address, you can revert to the original, preferred behavior:<\/p>\n

    \n
  1. Open a new window and type about:config<\/strong> into the address\/URL bar<\/li>\n
  2. Paste in this quick filter-field search: browser.urlbar.trimURLs
    \n<\/span><\/li>\n
  3. Double click on the browser.urlbar.trimURLs<\/span> field to change its value from true to false<\/strong><\/li>\n
  4. Close the window (or tab) and your URL protocols will be unhidden<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

    Why would you want to do this? If you copy\/paste web address routinely — say, to clients, via email — you don’t want to be manually adding back the protocol to every email you send or document you create, so that the URL can be clickable.<\/p>\n

    2.<\/h2>\n

    Firefox 6 introduced a new \u201cdomain highlighting\u201d feature, where the address bar grays-out any protocol (like http:\/\/\u00a0 or https:\/\/ )\u00a0 and the directory path in the URL, leaving just the domain in black. The thinking was that it would help inexperienced users easily catch phishing websites.<\/p>\n

    It is annoying to me, though. It makes the true path harder to see, and since I work with URLs on a regular basis — copy\/pasting them to clients in emails and documents — I wanted to turn it off. Here’s how:<\/p>\n

      \n
    1. Open a new window or tab, and type about:config<\/strong> into the location bar<\/li>\n
    2. Search for browser.urlbar.formatting.enabled<\/span> in the filter field; you can copy\/paste it from here<\/li>\n
    3. Double click on the browser.urlbar.formatting.enabled<\/span> field to toggle the value to false<\/strong><\/li>\n
    4. Close the window (or tab) and your domain paths will be unhidden<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

      That’s all there is to it! Now you can revert to a better way. :-)<\/p>\n

      \"firefox<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

      1. For power users who need their address bar to show the “http:\/\/” in a web address, you can revert to the original, preferred behavior: Open a new window and type about:config into the address\/URL bar Paste in this quick filter-field search: browser.urlbar.trimURLs Double click on the browser.urlbar.trimURLs field to change its value from true … <\/p>\n

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