Not too long ago, Firefox added two features, turned on by default, that have started annoying me. The first is URL formatting which greys out all of the URL displayed in the URL bar that is not part of the domain name. This means that if "www.google.com" is displayed, then the "www." portion is grey while "google.com" is black. The second one is URL trimming. This means that if the URL in the URL bar is a regular HTTP URL (one that begins with "http://") then the "http://" is not displayed. In other words, you will see "www.google.com" instead of "http://www.google.com".
The URL trimming feature does not apply to HTTPS URLs.
Well, I finally decided to dig into Firefox's advanced configuration settings and turn these off so I entered "about:config" into the URL bar.
Well, there's another annoyance, the "This might void your warranty" message. That one's easily turned off, just uncheck the box before clicking on the "I'll be careful" button. Then the about:config page is displayed.
At this point, type "urlbar" into the filter field.
Now, find the two lines for browser.urlbar.formatting.enabled and browser.urlbar.trimURLs and double-click on each one to change their vaules to "false".
Once this is done, you have successfully disabled these features.
Although the screenshots here are from the Mac version of Firefox 7.0.1 I have confirmed that this works for the Windows version of Firefox 7.0.1 as well.
Later,
Keith
