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Firefox solves this rather elegantly by making the subdomain and the part after the domain light grey, with the actual root domain in black. The URL is intact,
by audeyisaacs 12y ago
Firefox solves this rather elegantly by making the subdomain and the part after the domain light grey, with the actual root domain in black.
The URL is intact, and the root domain stands out clearly.
- flurpitude 12y agoIt's a start but I hadn't noticed this feature and wouldn't notice if the whole URL were in black. Using different colours to highlight different parts of the URL would be a big improvement.
- martey 12y agoChrome has done this since 2010: http://chrome.blogspot.com/2010/10/understanding-omnibox-for-better.html http://chrome.blogspot.com/2010/10/understanding-omnibox-for... Firefox's implementation of this feature is at least partially because of its usage in Chrome and other browsers: https://wiki.mozilla.org/Firefox/Features/Locationbar_Domain_Highlight https://wiki.mozilla.org/Firefox/Features/Locationbar_Domain...
- audeyisaacs 12y agoOK, but my current build of Chromium also has the subdomain in black, leaving it susceptible to the trick described in the article. The main point is that there are ways of going about this without having to kill the URL bar.
- Touche 12y agoThere's not enough contrast between them to really tell the difference unless you look closely.
- Excavator 12y agoIt was done once back in 2007 but there were a lot of complaints: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=388135#c5 https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=388135#c5