A smarter, simpler Firefox address bar | The Mozilla Blog
A smarter, simpler Firefox address bar | The Mozilla Blog
Firefox’s address bar just got an upgrade, and it’s all about putting you in control. It’s faster, easier to use and built to support how you search
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- Things I don't use like multiple search engines
- Hiding HTTPS: stupid idea I guess but I'm waiting for someone to prove me wrong
Overall, I have the feeling that they made changes for changes' sake but I may be wrong. Anyway, they lost (again) 10k users this year and I don't understand how those changes would help (https://data.firefox.com/dashboard/user-activity)
Also, if Firefox sends me to a Google search instead of the web page I typed in the address bar as much as a single time, I'm switching to something else.
I've been using Firefox for about 25 years.
I have my Firefox default search set to qwant.
My reason for liking the hiding of https is that it will still make it obvious when the website you're visiting in http, so there isnt much downside, and it lets you see more of long urls, since you no longer have the http taking up space at the beginning
I'm not saying I disagree, but does the average use have to worry about HTTPS though? The vast majority of sites use it now and most users aren't very privacy or security conscious (even if they should be).
does the average use have to worry about HTTPS though?
Yes, but arguably this will make it more clear when what they are doing is insecure.
As you mentioned the majority of sites use HTTPS, which is good. Most of the time users will never notice anything. But on occasion, when a site is insecure, they'll have a warning.
If every site were insecure, everyone would ignore the warning. If only a few rare sites are insecure, someone may notice.