Exciting Updates to the Firefox Address Bar: Get Nightly and Test Them Now!Hello Firefox community! We're excited to share the latest updates to the Firefox Address Bar! These new features aim to improve your search browsing experience by making it faster, more intuitive, and easier to discover tool...
  • MrMcGasion@lemmy.world
    4·
    4 days ago

    As long as they don’t remove my ability to still have a separate search field beside the address bar, I’ll still be happy. I know it has probably been a decade since Chrome merged the search and address bars (and Firefox followed), but IMO it makes the experience of both searching and typing addresses worse, in exchange for a at best mildly cleaner UI.

  • Blisterexe@lemmy.zip
    5·
    4 days ago

    Honestly? This looks like a great set of changes, especially making the search options more prominenet

  • Flatfire@lemmy.ca
    4·
    4 days ago

    These actually seem like a useful featureset, but I’d like to know where I can view the certificate information of a site now.

    • Ephera@lemmy.ml
      2·
      4 days ago

      The screenshots mostly show the UI while typing, which is when it’s presumably hidden…

      • Flatfire@lemmy.ca
        2·
        4 days ago

        Based on the feature description, I think it seems more likely that the padlock/cert info isn’t shown at all, similar to Chrome’s recent change. Though at least Mozilla isn’t framing it as if that was somehow information that confuses people.

        • Ephera@lemmy.ml
          3·
          4 days ago

          This screenshot shows a shield icon next to the address bar:

          If they want to get rid of the padlock icon, I’d guess, they’ll group the certicate into there, together with the toggle for Tracking Protection.

          I guess, we could also download Nightly and see for ourselves…

          • Flatfire@lemmy.ca
            2·
            3 days ago

            Fair enough, just haven’t been in a position to take a look. The screenshot may show it, but it shows it in the scenario they describe should show it.