Browser.urlbar.hideProtocols

Background

Firefox 3 nightlies experimented with several improvements to the Location Bar. Among them was the ability to hide the protocol (scheme) of the current URL when the Location Bar wasn’t focused. This feature was removed prior to release.

Possible values and their effects

A space-separated list of protocols. If the current URL’s protocol is in this list, it is not displayed in the Location Bar. By default this preference is an emtpy string (hide no protocols).

First checked in

2007-06-27 by Gavin Sharp (patch by Dão Gottwald)

Has an effect in

• Mozilla Firefox (nightly builds from 2007-06-27 to 2007-10-25)

Related bugs

• Bug 366797 - Revise the Location Bar (highlight effective domain, decode URLs, add overflow ellipsis & tooltip
• Bug 400809 - remove unneeded/unused parts from the urlbar binding

Related preferences

• browser.urlbar.animateBlend

See also

• Location Bar

External links

• Firefox 3 Location Bar (Mozilla Wiki)