1258148 - Certificate name may occupy a lot of space on urlbar

Status: RESOLVED WORKSFORME

(Firefox :: Site Identity, enhancement, P3)

Description

[Axel]

Attachment: NoUrl1.png

User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64; rv:45.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/45.0
Build ID: 20160315153207

Steps to reproduce:

I opened https://www.musicstore.de/ and couldn't read the URL in the address bar.


Actual results:

Given a certain, yet common, FF application window width it's impossible to read the URL because the certificate name takes all the space.



Expected results:

I propose that when the FF application window becomes less than, say, 1000 px, the search box and tool bar should flow into a second row, below the address bar which itself should take full width then (see images in attachment).

Comment 1

[Axel]

Attachment: NoUrl2.png

Suggestion of how the address bar should behave on lower Firefox application window widths.

Comment 2

[Jeff Griffiths (:canuckistani) (:⚡︎)]

Peter, I think we should work with Shorlander post-photon and make sure the browser looks great and the riht info is shown well on the smaller screen resolutions we care about.

Comment 3

[Peter Dolanjski [:pdol]]

Flagging Jsavory and Shorlander on this.  Can we figure out how to scale better when there are long cert names like this?

Comment 4

[Jacqueline Savory [:jsavory] UX]

My initial thought for this case is to truncate the cert name along with the URL bar rather than maintaining the length despite how short the URL bar gets. Although, I'm sure there are other solutions that we could explore, what do you think Shorlander?

Comment 5

[Stephen Horlander [:shorlander]]

(In reply to Jacqueline Savory [:jsavory] UX from comment #4)
> My initial thought for this case is to truncate the cert name along with the
> URL bar rather than maintaining the length despite how short the URL bar
> gets. Although, I'm sure there are other solutions that we could explore,
> what do you think Shorlander?

I agree with this approach. Aaron was looking into this as part of the Photon refresh, he might have more thoughts.

Comment 6

[Axel]

Attachment: EV-SSL.png

The new GUI made things worse. See attachment.

Comment 7

[Axel]

Can we at least get a tooltip soon, revealing the full URI when the mouse pointer hovers over the address bar?

Comment 9

[Johann Hofmann [:johannh]]

We have decided to move the EV entity name out of the URL bar, so this can be closed.