Simple Firefox question

[I, Brian]

Daft question: I'm on Firefox 9, but the address bar no longer displays "http://" for web addresses, which is proving a minor pain for getting onto secure URLs of a site.

I've been through the "customise toolbar" option, but don't see an option for this.

Am presuming there's a checkbox to tick, or is this is now a default fact of Firefox?

[ukgimp]

its a bit of a fuck about, no nice tickbox

http://howto.cnet.com/8301-11310_39-20120714-285/how-to-show-the-full-url-in-firefox/

[littleman]

I posted about this back in September...

Did the upgrade, one thing that annoyed me was the dropping of the connection type in the URL bar.  To undo go to about:config and set browser.urlbar.trimURLs to false.  I am not sure why everyone feels the need to dumb down the user experience.

Stupid move for FF in my opinion to dumb down its browser.

[I, Brian]

Excellent, cheers for that.

Stupid move for FF in my opinion to dumb down its browser.

FF have been dumbing down for a long time now. The more they pander to the masses, and piss off the original users, the more FF just becomes another version of IE.

Tried using Opera - looks exactly the same. Only it logs me out of everything the moment I close the browser, which makes it useless for anything. I have that setting on IE specifically for manual ranking checks.

[ukgimp]

Chrome for all my daily stuff. I have FF playing the radio. I use a different browser in case I crash Chrome and I don't want to lose the music :-)

That's all I use FF for these days.

[littleman]

I'm hesitant to use Chrome because of the tie to Google.  There is Chromium (browser) which is just the open source bits without the G hooks, but they sure obfuscate the download links for it.

<added> Just found this: http://download-chromium.appspot.com/