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New Nightly Android URL bar hides most of the URL

amazingakita — Fri, 12 Jul 2024 07:42:34 GMT

I noticed this when clicking on an X/Twitter link shared with me - the URL field only shows "x.com" now, not the full "x.com/user/poststring" address until I click on the URL area. This is a huge downgrade, and a huge risk. I like to see the whole URL to check that i'm in the correct place - how am I going to do that now?

Re: New Nightly Android URL bar hides most of the URL

TTG — Fri, 12 Jul 2024 10:30:37 GMT

I agree, this is a huge step back in UI. The location bar should show where I am, thats what an URL is for.

Only showing the brand/domain is horrible for security and conveys no information at all.

Please revert this change.

Re: New Nightly Android URL bar hides most of the URL

jasger_ — Sat, 13 Jul 2024 01:11:47 GMT

Or at least have an option to turn it off. I currently can't even find the correct field in about:config (yes, I already tried browser.urlbar.trimURLs)

Re: New Nightly Android URL bar hides most of the URL

ACD — Sun, 14 Jul 2024 01:15:46 GMT

I second this. Can we please get an option (or about:config key) to disable the URL to domain name reduction? As a technical/power-user I don't see any benefit to this information being hidden from me.

Re: New Nightly Android URL bar hides most of the URL

zyxtia — Sun, 14 Jul 2024 06:28:19 GMT

Agreed!

This is one of the worst features of iOS' Safari browser - please don't bring it to Firefox on Android. An option to disable it would be a fair compromise, but better yet would be backing out the change entirely.

Re: New Nightly Android URL bar hides most of the URL

zyxtia — Sun, 14 Jul 2024 06:36:05 GMT

FYI: this issue seems to first be showing up on Firefox Nightly Android, built 130.0a1. Hoping this gets fixed long (reverted, or an option to disable) before it hits stable build

Re: New Nightly Android URL bar hides most of the URL

agt — Sun, 14 Jul 2024 08:22:48 GMT

To revert it now you can disable the new Navigation Bar: (copied from a reddit thread)

Move the Page up and down so you reach the three dots menu and tap it.
Tap Settings. In About, tap About Firefox Nightly.
Tap the logo until a tooltip mentioning developer mode enabled appears.
Tap back arrow to go to the previous menu. A new menu has appeared in About, Secret Settings, tap it.
Tap Enable Navigation Toolbar so the toggle is off

For me, those steps removed the Nav bar (which didn't bother me much) and restored the full url, which is essential.

Re: New Nightly Android URL bar hides most of the URL

Emmic — Mon, 15 Jul 2024 04:36:27 GMT

absolutely baffling to me that this was considered a useful feature. what benefit does it provide? what justification did the dev who first came up with it have for their idea?

Re: New Nightly Android URL bar hides most of the URL

heracles — Mon, 15 Jul 2024 20:08:54 GMT

I don't know which is worse: the decision to follow on Chrome's lead and detracts from the openess of the web by attracting URLs, of this very text b wheresome unspeakable script movesthe text pointer around.

Re: New Nightly Android URL bar hides most of the URL

tired — Mon, 15 Jul 2024 20:49:47 GMT

Even Chrome added a configuration flag within a month and eventually reverted the % experiment. Fenix really went in here knowing how much ridicule Safari, Brave, and Chrome got for this, and that Chrome concluded there was no real security benefit.

Re: New Nightly Android URL bar hides most of the URL

ACD — Sun, 28 Jul 2024 10:03:28 GMT

Heads up: I'm still on 130.0a1 (Build #2016034623), but it's displaying the full URI again, minus the protocol scheme. I'm glad to see they fixed it!

I actually wouldn't mind the reload button and/or the share button, which are always visible, being moved to the bottom row, whose 5 icons at the moment are spaced very leisurely. That way, we'd be able to see more of the web address.

Re: New Nightly Android URL bar hides most of the URL

zyxtia — Sun, 28 Jul 2024 21:29:05 GMT

Excellent news - thanks for the heads up! I had done the workaround noted above to disable the navigation toolbar, but sure enough, turning it back on now still shows full URL (less protocol scheme). Nice find @ACD.