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   Eugen Rochko (gargron@mastodon.social)'s status on Saturday, 28-Jun-2025 21:28:46 JST Eugen Rochko

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   I don't know how recent this change is but I noticed #Firefox removed https:// from the address bar so now every link and every website I visit looks insecure. I know there is a padlock icon next to the address bar but it doesn't seem quite as easily scannable to me.

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     Yvo Verschoor (yv@mastodon.social)'s status on Saturday, 28-Jun-2025 22:11:22 JST Yvo Verschoor

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     @Gargron In my case, what you describe after the update to 140 did not happen. But there are one (or two) settings relevant in the About:config screen.
     I once changed the browser.urlbar.trimURL setting to "False" (as it should be :-) ). That setting was not altered to the default "true" in my case.
     That setting alters both the displaying of http:// and https:// to display it or not.

     There is also the setting: browser.urlbar.trimHttps
     That only focuses itself to https. 1/2

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     Erik Ellsinger (ellsinger@mastodon.social)'s status on Saturday, 28-Jun-2025 22:30:41 JST Erik Ellsinger

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     @Gargron you can activate it again by going to about:config and searching for browser.urlbar.trimURLs, set it to false.

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     Marc Robinson :mastodon: (marcintosh@mastodon.social)'s status on Saturday, 28-Jun-2025 23:35:27 JST Marc Robinson :mastodon:

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     @Gargron Why show the protocol at all if they’re not going to differentiate? 🤔

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     David Blue ⁂ ∆ (davidblue@mastodon.social)'s status on Saturday, 28-Jun-2025 23:41:16 JST David Blue ⁂ ∆

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     @Gargron almost positive showing full urls int he address bar always is a flag? it definitey is in chromium.

     I get what you're saying though... I feel (and have long felt) quite strongly that there is zero reasonable case for obscuring any one part of a given url/path and the *only* result is this sort of confusion.

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     Frederik Riedel 🐻‍❄️ (frederik@mastodon.social)'s status on Sunday, 29-Jun-2025 01:17:13 JST Frederik Riedel 🐻‍❄️

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     @Gargron They actually do the opposite now (just like safari did for years): encryption is not the default, and it’s showing a big warning when https is not supported

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     Rich 🔶UK #RejoinEU (rpin42@mastodon.social)'s status on Sunday, 29-Jun-2025 01:34:16 JST Rich 🔶UK #RejoinEU

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     @Gargron it’s a little shield on the iOS version and I’m pretty happy with that. I’m sure I get a warning if I go to a site without a certificate too, that is http:// is notified, not https:// these days of ubiquitous encryption

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     3dcandy (3dcandy@mastodon.social)'s status on Sunday, 29-Jun-2025 01:59:05 JST 3dcandy

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     @Gargron that's because all the others do it that way now...

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     Christen Lofland (ekpyroticfrood@mastodon.social)'s status on Sunday, 29-Jun-2025 02:47:31 JST Christen Lofland

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     @Gargron What frustrates me most is if you select it and copy and paste it, the "http://" or "https://" is i the pasted text.
     How do I copy without that? You cannot. It is bad user experience to put something in your paste buffer that you didn't highlight. (I also honestly felt it was good for users to see "https://" because it reminds people that there is a network here. It also opens the door to using other protocols without confusing people too much.)

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     Kimmo Ahokas (kimmoahokas@mastodon.social)'s status on Sunday, 29-Jun-2025 03:07:52 JST Kimmo Ahokas

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     @Gargron I think browsers started removing https indicators around 2019. Generally people don’t notice something like the padlock is missing, so they are instead going to mark it red if site is not https. As certificates have become free and something like 99% internet is https I think that makes 100% sense.

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     Sven (doctorwhom@mastodon.social)'s status on Sunday, 29-Jun-2025 03:22:39 JST Sven

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     @Gargron

     Yea, it should be an option burred some place. But I got over it. I'm bothered that sometimes I cut&paste the URL and it get the `https://` though it wasn't highlighted when I cut it.

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     Jim Jones (greatbigtable@mastodon.social)'s status on Sunday, 29-Jun-2025 04:40:20 JST Jim Jones

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     @Gargron agreed. 100%! This is a bad UI change.

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     G 🇮🇹 (ranx@mastodon.social)'s status on Sunday, 29-Jun-2025 04:55:16 JST G 🇮🇹

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     @Gargron i notice this too, now, thanks to this post 😅 yes now in order to check if the connection is over https you need to click on the lock and then again on the "connection is secure" to see the full address with protocol. Before you only needed to look at the address bar... and they call it improvements

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     craniac (craniac@mastodon.social)'s status on Monday, 30-Jun-2025 08:14:07 JST craniac

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     @Gargron When you place the cursor at the left side of the url so you can pasted in "archive.is/" it mangles it now.