Firefox 7 Fixes
Somewhere along the road from Firefox 3 to Firefox 7 that we have seen this year a couple of features have fallen from it that I want back.
The first is a status bar thingy at the bottom so that you can see the URL of links before you click them. If you download actual files or do various kinds of web development then this feature is pretty useful. This plugin puts these features back:
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/status-4-evar/
The second feature is removing the "http://" bit from your address bar. For developers this looks weird and for anybody who copies and pastes this is a pain. You can turn it back on by faffing with a setting, it takes about 20 seconds to do, see instructions here:
http://peter.upfold.org.uk/blog/2011/09/28/un-hide-the-http-in-firefox-7/
Happy browsing :)
2 comments:
thank you for the http restoration. The destination URL though is the same as 6.0 for me, it appears in the bottom left of the screen when you hover over a link.
except now that I see the link it is the same as the first one...
Anyway I found somewhere or other:
"Users can revert to the old behavior by setting browser.urlbar.trimURLs to false in about:config."
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