1271030 - Urlbar no longer shows address of some sites, shows site/company name instead.

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 1268753

(Firefox for Android Graveyard :: General, defect)

Description

[Daniel]

Attachment: tmp_16412-IMG_20160506_1743231381379845.jpg

User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Android 4.4.2; Tablet; rv:47.0) Gecko/47.0 Firefox/47.0
Build ID: 20160502172529
Firefox for Android

Steps to reproduce:

Visit certain sites like: github.com or addons.mozilla.org 


Actual results:

Urlbar shows site/company name, I.e. Mozilla Foundation (US) while on addons.mozilla.org. 


Expected results:

I would like to see the URL of the site instead of the name.
This worked fine in all releases of FF until recently. 
Screenshot attached.

Comment 1

[Daniel]

Even though I can select/click the urlbar and it'll show the site address that way, I could still see this being a security issue with some sites, when at a glance you see a company name which may look legitimate, all the while the actual address could be something different, phishing sites would love this.

Comment 2

[Daniel]

Unless I'm not understanding how this works, couldn't a malicious site just lie about their site/company name?
Or have I got this all wrong?

Comment 3

[Marco Bonardo [:mak]]

Hi, it's quite likely an add-on or theme is causing your issue, please try Safe Mode
https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/troubleshoot-firefox-issues-using-safe-mode

Comment 4

[Daniel]

(In reply to Marco Bonardo [::mak] from comment #3)
> Hi, it's quite likely an add-on or theme is causing your issue, please try
> Safe Mode
> https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/troubleshoot-firefox-issues-using-safe-
> mode


Sorry, but did you even read this bug?  I don't mean to be snooty, but, 1, I'm using Android. Safe mode? and  2, All addons & themes are off/non existent.

Dan.

Comment 5

[Daniel]

I'm sorry, I'm still learning how to use Bugzilla. 

I see the needinfo, but am unsure what you need.

Comment 7

[Marco Bonardo [:mak]]

sorry, it was in the wrong product and I didn't notice the user agent, my fault.