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Firefox 75 gets lazy loading support for images and iframes and strips https:// and www From Address Bar Results
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<blockquote data-quote="HarborFront" data-source="post: 870655" data-attributes="member: 55987"><p>Another new feature </p><p></p><p><span style="font-size: 15px"><strong>Firefox 75 Strips https:// and www From Address Bar Results</strong></span></p><p></p><p>Like most of the modern browsers, Firefox shows suggestions when you type in the address bar. Those suggestions are based on your recent browsing history, include bookmarks, and may include search engine suggestions. The upcoming version 75 of Firefox strips the https:// and www portions from the suggestion URL.</p><p></p><p>When explaining the change, Mozilla noted that modern browsers are already hiding these parts. The company must be referring to Google Chrome, which is a product known for introducing such changes. So, starting in Firefox 75, the browser will replicate this behavior, and hide <em>https://</em> and <em>www</em> parts from the suggestion URL.</p><p></p><p>The current version of Firefox shows suggestions as follows:</p><p></p><p><img src="https://winaero.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/Firefox-Address-Bar-Suggestions-with-HTTPS.png" alt="Firefox Address Bar Suggestions With HTTPS" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" /></p><p></p><p>As you can see in the screenshot above, both https:// and www are visible next to the suggestion title.</p><p></p><p>Here is how the same looks in Firefox 75, which is in Nightly as of now.</p><p></p><p><img src="https://winaero.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/Firefox-Address-Bar-Suggestions-without-HTTPS.png" alt="Firefox Address Bar Suggestions Without HTTPS" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" /></p><p></p><p>While the HTTPS portion is hidden, Firefox 75 shows the protocol if the classic plain HTTP is in the URL.</p><p></p><p>As of this writing Firefox 75 'Nightly' comes with a special about:config option to disable the new behavior.</p><p></p><p><span style="font-size: 22px"><strong>Disable New Behavior</strong></span></p><ol> <li data-xf-list-type="ol">Open Firefox.</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ol">In a new tab, type about:config in the address bar.</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ol">Click <em>I accept the risk</em>.<img src="https://winaero.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2019/10/Firefox-aboutconfig-warning.png" alt="Firefox About:config Warning" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" /></li> <li data-xf-list-type="ol">In the search box, type or copy-paste the line browser.urlbar.trimURLs.<img src="https://winaero.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/Firefox-browser.urlbar.trimURLs.png" alt="Firefox Browser.urlbar.trimURLs" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" /></li> <li data-xf-list-type="ol">Double-click on the value name in the search result to toggle its value from <em>true</em> to <em>false</em>.<img src="https://winaero.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/Firefox-Restore-Classic-Address-Bar-Suggestions.png" alt="Firefox Restore Classic Address Bar Suggestions" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" /></li> </ol><p>You are done. You can reset the value at any time later to restore the new behavior.</p><p></p><p>Personally, I find this change unpleasant. I am familiar with a couple of sites which return differently formatted pages for www and non-www URLs. Hiding anything from the URL is always a bad idea, because it makes it harder to understand what is going on in case you see something that you didn't expect to see on a web page.</p><p></p><p>[URL unfurl="true"]https://winaero.com/blog/firefox-75-strips-https-and-www-from-address-bar-results/[/URL]</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="HarborFront, post: 870655, member: 55987"] Another new feature [SIZE=4][B]Firefox 75 Strips https:// and www From Address Bar Results[/B][/SIZE] Like most of the modern browsers, Firefox shows suggestions when you type in the address bar. Those suggestions are based on your recent browsing history, include bookmarks, and may include search engine suggestions. The upcoming version 75 of Firefox strips the https:// and www portions from the suggestion URL. When explaining the change, Mozilla noted that modern browsers are already hiding these parts. The company must be referring to Google Chrome, which is a product known for introducing such changes. So, starting in Firefox 75, the browser will replicate this behavior, and hide [I]https://[/I] and [I]www[/I] parts from the suggestion URL. The current version of Firefox shows suggestions as follows: [IMG alt="Firefox Address Bar Suggestions With HTTPS"]https://winaero.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/Firefox-Address-Bar-Suggestions-with-HTTPS.png[/IMG] As you can see in the screenshot above, both https:// and www are visible next to the suggestion title. Here is how the same looks in Firefox 75, which is in Nightly as of now. [IMG alt="Firefox Address Bar Suggestions Without HTTPS"]https://winaero.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/Firefox-Address-Bar-Suggestions-without-HTTPS.png[/IMG] While the HTTPS portion is hidden, Firefox 75 shows the protocol if the classic plain HTTP is in the URL. As of this writing Firefox 75 'Nightly' comes with a special about:config option to disable the new behavior. [SIZE=6][B]Disable New Behavior[/B][/SIZE] [LIST=1] [*]Open Firefox. [*]In a new tab, type about:config in the address bar. [*]Click [I]I accept the risk[/I].[IMG alt="Firefox About:config Warning"]https://winaero.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2019/10/Firefox-aboutconfig-warning.png[/IMG] [*]In the search box, type or copy-paste the line browser.urlbar.trimURLs.[IMG alt="Firefox Browser.urlbar.trimURLs"]https://winaero.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/Firefox-browser.urlbar.trimURLs.png[/IMG] [*]Double-click on the value name in the search result to toggle its value from [I]true[/I] to [I]false[/I].[IMG alt="Firefox Restore Classic Address Bar Suggestions"]https://winaero.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/Firefox-Restore-Classic-Address-Bar-Suggestions.png[/IMG] [/LIST] You are done. You can reset the value at any time later to restore the new behavior. Personally, I find this change unpleasant. I am familiar with a couple of sites which return differently formatted pages for www and non-www URLs. Hiding anything from the URL is always a bad idea, because it makes it harder to understand what is going on in case you see something that you didn't expect to see on a web page. [URL unfurl="true"]https://winaero.com/blog/firefox-75-strips-https-and-www-from-address-bar-results/[/URL] [/QUOTE]
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