742988 - hide www in url

Status: RESOLVED WONTFIX

(Firefox :: Address Bar, defect, P3)

Description

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User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.2; Win64; x64; rv:14.0) Gecko/20120405 Firefox/14.0a1
Build ID: 20120405031419

Steps to reproduce:

want to hide www prefix from URL


Actual results:

Nothing


Expected results:

It would be nice to implement a feature like "browser.urlbar.hideProtocols" in about:config to hide "www" prefix from URL as well to make URL bar even more compact.

Comment 1

[:Gavin Sharp [email: [e-mail]]]

Unfortunately "www.foo.com" and "foo.com" are not guaranteed to be the same (even though they commonly are), so stripping the "www." away could have unintended side effects. That means that we can't really do this by default, and I don't think we're going to implement options for doing so in Firefox itself. Can certainly be done by an add-on if you're interested!

Comment 2

[vjqjyuyy9dmmrnvv7nzrtgdu2g7iq7qqn9343fwv]

I don't want what "browser.fixup.alternate.prefix" disabled would do - to remove completely the "www" from URL when typing foo.com.

I just want it to be hidden for the aesthetics as "browser.urlbar.hideProtocols" does, so when i copy the url i can get "www" as well.

An addon would be great too. Any ideas?

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Sorry for my english :) hope u understand

Comment 3

[Jo Hermans]

You can only do this if www.foo.com is a CNAME-record in DNS pointing to foo.com, or (more generally) foo.com and www.foo.com map to the same ipaddress. Note that there will be cases where this won't be detected, if the lookup for foo.com returns a different ipaddress than www.foo.com (due to round robin ordering if they use load balancing).