Closed Bug 315329 Opened 19 years ago Closed 19 years ago

Use colors to indicate parts of the URL in the address bar (especially the hostname)

Categories

(Firefox :: Address Bar, enhancement)

Product:
Firefox
Component:
Address Bar
Type:
enhancement
Priority:
Not set
Severity:
normal

Tracking

()

Status:
RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 184074

People

(Reporter: andrejohn.mas, Unassigned)

Details

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; PPC Mac OS X Mach-O; en-US; rv:1.8) Gecko/20051025 Firefox/1.5
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; PPC Mac OS X Mach-O; en-US; rv:1.8) Gecko/20051025 Firefox/1.5

With the issue of phishing, I feel that we may an address bar with coloured URLS might be useful, or some other solution to allow non-techie users to easily identify legitimate web site. The idea is to spot urls of the following form easily:

  http://www.ebay.com:312312312321@phisherco.com/abc/?122345

Also, maybe allowing an option to have the status bar to always show the web site in the status bar, even when the address bar is missing.

Reproducible: Always
Note that HTTPS mode displays the name of the web site, but unsecured mode does not, so this should be extended to HTTP and FTP protocols.
Severity: normal → enhancement
Firefox already keeps usernames and passwords out of the address bar, but this idea could still be useful.  I've seen this idea mentioned elsewhere but I don't know where there's a bug on it.
Status: UNCONFIRMED → NEW
Ever confirmed: true
OS: MacOS X → All
Hardware: Macintosh → All
Summary: Colour address field URL → Use colors to indicate parts of the URL in the address bar (especially the hostname)

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 184074 ***
Status: NEW → RESOLVED
Closed: 19 years ago
Resolution: --- → DUPLICATE
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