Closed Bug 1402632 Opened 7 years ago Closed 7 years ago

Obtrusive “Extension (Extension Name)” in URL bar before URL when new-tab page is overridden

Categories

(WebExtensions :: Frontend, defect)

57 Branch
defect
Not set
normal

Tracking

(Not tracked)

RESOLVED INVALID

People

(Reporter: mtanalin, Unassigned)

Details

User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; Win64; x64; rv:57.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/57.0
Build ID: 20170921191414

Steps to reproduce:

When the new-tab page is overridden by a WebExtensions-powered extension (via "chrome_url_overrides" -> "newtab" in manifest), the “Extension (Extension Name)” string is displayed in the Firefox URL bar before the URL itself. It unreasonably makes the URL bar effectively shorter and less usable.

It should be enough just to display the puzzle icon, without the obtrusive text part next to it.
This is intentional.
Status: UNCONFIRMED → RESOLVED
Closed: 7 years ago
Resolution: --- → INVALID
The same goal could probably be achieved in a less obtrusive and more usable way. For example, the extension’s name could be hidden (“Extension (Extension Name)” → “Extension”) and only displayed on click, and the rest “Extension” string could have a smaller font size, so that location bar’s space wasn’t occupied so dramatically much.

Currently, with a few of buttons on the toolbar and with OS-level zoom of 200% at Full-HD resolution, the location bar has almost _zero_ width, so it’s hard even to focus the location bar via mouse to start typing.
Product: Toolkit → WebExtensions

Looks like there is finally some progress with this:
in Firefox 71.0b2 (Dev. Edition), the string is shortened by replacing a part in the middle of the string with an ellipsis.

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