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As yet another entry in the long cavalcade of inexplicable user-hostile changes, Firefox for Android has stopped displaying anything but the TLD at the top of t
by 4bpp 2y ago
As yet another entry in the long cavalcade of inexplicable user-hostile changes, Firefox for Android has stopped displaying anything but the TLD at the top of the screen, unless you explicitly edit it. The bugtracker thread makes it clear that this is a deliberate change, though none of the deliberation seems to have been public. My best non-conspiracy guess would be that it is rationalised with an argument along the lines of hypothetical users being fooled by phishing websites along the lines of http://www.fake.com/1/2/3/http/www.real.com/ http://www.fake.com/1/2/3/http/www.real.com/, but surely this would have been prevented by the default left-justification and could have been reinforced with colour if they were so concerned.
- Arnt 2y agoWhat they deleted is called a postage stamp user interface. Where you use a small part of the screen to interact with something big. Good riddance of bad rubbish. The usual good replacement is a small touchable area that shows the essential part and leads to a full-screen editing interface.