Firefox 7 To Eliminate ''http://'' URL Prefix

[captaincharisma]

[citation][nom]moonshire[/nom]Looks like we got a IE fanboy here[/citation]



wait now....people still use IE?

 

[abdussamad]

Why are they doing this? They buried the RSS icon and now this? And what's with changing the trailing slash and hiding www? How are SEOs supposed to know what URL they are visiting?

 

[eklipz330]

[citation][nom]captaincharisma[/nom]wait now....people still use IE?[/citation]
yes. it's dominating the market. u've been sleeping under a rock bro?

 

[fir_ser]

A few days ago Mozilla released Firefox 5 and now they are talking about Firefox 7 that will be released after about 3 months.
This is really weird!

 

[fir_ser]

Maybe Mozilla is trying to catch up with IE’s version number.

 

[izajasz]

[citation][nom]KawiNinjaZX[/nom]Firefox 7? I'm still running like 3.6.[/citation]
Cos u are a noob ; x

 

[izajasz]

[citation][nom]bison88[/nom]FF is going to lose their existing users when people realize every 3 months they're going to have to update all their add-ons and most aren't going to happen right away.[/citation]
Well google has this problem fixed since everytime chrome updates the addons remain same and working .... So can mozilla i suppose.

 

[izajasz]

[citation][nom]phatboe[/nom]Honestly I don't like the changes that I am seeing over at Mozilla. This new numbering scheme is pretty stupid. Why? Business users aren't going to like the idea of automatic updates on their company's computers and keeping up with these almost weekly updates is insane. Google Chrome is already at version 13 and it has only been out for a few years. Image in a few more years when they hit version 67. How can anyone keep up with these frequent updates? I honestly don't see Chrome penetrating the business machine because of this.Now Mozilla wants to further play me-too by incorporating the dumbest idea yet by removing the "http" prefix? What good will come of this? While I don't think removing the prefix is that big of a deal I really don't see the point in removing it. Also like others before me have said what are they going to do about the "ftp" prefix? I'm glad they are keeping the "https" prefix but why remove "http" if you are going to keep "https"? What about the other prefixes? Will I have the ability to restore the showing of the "http" prefix?Honestly, if the system ain't broke and doesn't need improving then don't fix it. Go back to sane release schedules and don't remove the "http" prefix. I am a long time Mozilla/FF user but please don't drive me toward using Opera.[/citation]

Dude chrome udpates itself and you dont even see it .... So its not a big deal to keep up with udpates. if You dont know the product dont mess efveryone elses minds with such crap talk.

 

[phatboe]

[citation][nom]izajasz[/nom]Dude chrome udpates itself and you dont even see it .... So its not a big deal to keep up with udpates. if You dont know the product dont mess efveryone elses minds with such crap talk.[/citation]

I see you missed the part where I typed
[citation][nom]Phatboe[/nom]Business users aren't going to like the idea of automatic updates on their company's computers[/citation]

 

[phatboe]

[citation][nom]LordConrad[/nom]Great, something else I need to change in config. I already have to restore the "name search" function in the location bar that Mozilla decided I didn't need.. If I want a full search results page I use the Search Bar, that's what it's for.[/citation]
Wow this has been annoying me too. I had no idea you can enable "name search" in FF. I really hate the new location bar. How do you revert back to name search?

 

[beachbod]

Its simply a cosmetic change to satisfy the masses. Because ignorant people wont update firefox if they cant see any change.

Same reason google adopted the apple style fade in toolbar a while back.

And why microsoft has to reinvent the interface with every new version of windows.

Its change simply for the sake of change. Even if they have to move away from a clean and functional interface they already had.

 

[ravewulf]

[citation][nom]Max Collodi[/nom]My copy of IE9 still displays the full URL. Am I missing something?[/citation]
My guess is that they're referring to most of the address being grayed out (for example the url for this article would be tomsguide.com in black and the rest of the url is gray).

It's a feature to help prevent people from being tricked into thinking ebay.spamsite.com (only spamsite.com would be black) is ebay.com.

 

[Dark Lord of Tech]

Firefox 12 coming in June !

 

[alidan]

[citation][nom]izajasz[/nom]Dude chrome udpates itself and you dont even see it .... So its not a big deal to keep up with udpates. if You dont know the product dont mess efveryone elses minds with such crap talk.[/citation]


lie, chrome decided to stop updateing at version 10.0.648.205 for me.

 

[eddieroolz]

Frankly I think Mozilla's team is going further and further off the rails.

Focus on fixing the platform first. Firefox is slow to start, slow to open a tab and slow to do generally anything right now - to the point that its now being beaten in a majority of benchmarks by its sworn rival IE.

 

[teodoreh]

Now that's what I call an innovation...

 

[sonofliberty08]

[citation][nom]KawiNinjaZX[/nom]Firefox 7? I'm still running like 3.6.[/citation]
i use version 3.6.18 , i play with the version 4 for half an hour b4 , then switch back to firefox 3.6 again , bcos i don't like the version 4 interface and control

 

[Vladislaus]

[citation][nom]LuckyDucky7[/nom]So basically this is just copying what IE has done since version 8.Nothing new to see here, folks.[/citation]
Since when does ie8 hide the http/ prefix. One of the annoyances of ie is that if I want to access a website that is on a port different than 80 I have to write the damn http/ prefix by hand, and it's the only browser with this behavior.

 

[laur3ooo]

[citation][nom]area51reopened[/nom]Firefox 12 coming in June ![/citation]
By june next year if my calculations are correct we will have Firefox 14.

 

[enforcer22]

Well this has to be the most idiotic "update" i have ever heard...

[citation][nom]Vladislaus[/nom]Since when does ie8 hide the http/ prefix. One of the annoyances of ie is that if I want to access a website that is on a port different than 80 I have to write the damn http/ prefix by hand, and it's the only browser with this behavior.[/citation]

wow a issue i have never seen in IE.