818472 - 'http' missing from address bar, status bar

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 667178

(Firefox :: Untriaged, defect)

Description

[HyperHacker]

User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Ubuntu; Linux i686; rv:17.0) Gecko/17.0 Firefox/17.0
Build ID: 20121120042814

Steps to reproduce:

Open any web page, or hover over any URL, that uses http:// protocol. Especially, try to copy the URL from the address bar.


Actual results:

The protocol string is not shown, and not included in the URL when copied. It makes the status bar a bit strange at times ("what is this text in the corner?") and makes copying URLs to share quite a pain the backside.


Expected results:

Protocol string should be shown and included in copied URLs.

Comment 1

[Loic]

Set about:config > browser.urlbar.trimURLs = false. Does it work for you?

Comment 2

[HyperHacker]

That seems to do it. I wonder why this option exists, and especially is enabled by default?

Comment 3

[Loic]

Trimmed URLs is an old feature introduced into Firefox 7. But some issues persist (with copy/paste e.g. like bug 697248).

Comment 4

[HyperHacker]

Seems more like a misfeature... why decide to start hiding part of the URL? Perhaps the bug is not in the code, but in its intent.

Comment 5

[Manuela Muntean [Away]]

This works for me, even if the setting from comment 1 is set to true: browser.urlbar.trimURLs = true, while testing on the latest Nightly.

User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux i686; rv:20.0) Gecko/20121210 Firefox/20.0
Build ID: 20121210030747