Flutterby™! : Fixing Firefox 7 2012-01-05 18:53:13.854616+01

Fixing Firefox 7

2012-01-05 18:53:13.854616+01 by Dan Lyke 0 comments

After copying and pasting too many mangled URLs from the address bar of Firefox 7, I finally entered about:config and set browser.urlbar.trimURLs to false in order to show the "http://", and browser.urlbar.formatting.enabled to true to not grey that portion out.

Dear Mozilla: Next time y'all are begging for donations, I'll remember that rather than optimizing memory use, or fixing crashes, you're putting development effort into bad interface decisions like this.

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