New Nightly Android URL bar hides most of the URL

[amazingakita]

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?

[TTG]

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.

[jasger_]

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)

[agt]

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.

[ACD]

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.

[zyxtia]

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.

[zyxtia]

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

 

[Emmic]

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?

[heracles]

                 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.                             

[tired]

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.

[ACD]

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.

 

[zyxtia]

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.