A smarter, simpler Firefox address bar | The Mozilla Blog
A smarter, simpler Firefox address bar | The Mozilla Blog
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A smarter, simpler Firefox address bar | The Mozilla Blog
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- Things I don't use like multiple search engines
- Hiding HTTPS: stupid idea I guess but I'm waiting for someone to prove me wrong
Overall, I have the feeling that they made changes for changes' sake but I may be wrong. Anyway, they lost (again) 10k users this year and I don't understand how those changes would help (https://data.firefox.com/dashboard/user-activity)
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My reason for liking the hiding of https is that it will still make it obvious when the website you're visiting in http, so there isnt much downside, and it lets you see more of long urls, since you no longer have the http taking up space at the beginning
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I'm not saying I disagree, but does the average use have to worry about HTTPS though? The vast majority of sites use it now and most users aren't very privacy or security conscious (even if they should be).
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does the average use have to worry about HTTPS though?
Yes, but arguably this will make it more clear when what they are doing is insecure.
As you mentioned the majority of sites use HTTPS, which is good. Most of the time users will never notice anything. But on occasion, when a site is insecure, they'll have a warning.
If every site were insecure, everyone would ignore the warning. If only a few rare sites are insecure, someone may notice.
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Also, if Firefox sends me to a Google search instead of the web page I typed in the address bar as much as a single time, I'm switching to something else.
I've been using Firefox for about 25 years.
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You can disable the search feature from the address bar completely by adding these to your about:config
keyword.enabled = false
browser.urlbar.oneOffSearches = false
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I have my Firefox default search set to qwant.
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Every single one of these is an upgrade in my view.
I have been cynical about search integration with browsers, but I feel like it's a necessity in life at this point; and search engines have become so unreliable that I think it's important now to spread out and use more than one, for me anyways
I love that I can do quick toolbar searches with history and bookmarks and although I don't think I would use it much, it's nice to know that you can shortcut common browser commands instead of having to go through multiple menus.
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Great to see Firefox getting cool features again
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