How do I force firefox 15.0a2+ to display the URL protocol..

[wakanasakai]

Ever since I started using firefox 14 & later versions, I have been annoyed as I can get at a baffling design choice by mozilla. That decision is mozilla's refusal to allow the address bar to display the URL protocol (http/https/other). A list of most or all of them (both official & un-official) can be found here.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/URI_scheme

Mozilla's design choice doesn't even begin to make sense. Ask any browser itself (instead of mozilla) if any internet address does not start with a URL protocol. Even firefox 16 has to live & breathe by this un-avoidable fact. Just access a page's "Page info" to see that every firefox knows the truth that mozilla has decided to hide.

By this point, it's obvious how I feel about mozilla's design choice. If anybody knows how to force firefox 15.0a2 en-US 32-bit to always display a page's complete URL (except in full-screen, of course), starting with the URL protocol, post it here. An addon, a setting, a config hack, whatever, please post it so that I can undo mozilla's baffling decision, at least for my own firefox.

P.S.
If this topic ends up somehow duplicated on the message board, firefox gave me some weird error when I first tried to post this topic, & I didn't see it when I went back, so that's why I tried to re-post it.

[Briscoe]

http://www.longurlplease.com/

The above extension will do it, but it is kind of flaky. May want to try something else.

[JayhawksRock]

To get back the http format you want and eliminate url shading, change these prefs to false in about:config
browser.urlbar.formatting.enabled
browser.urlbar.trimURLs

[KWierso]

It only doesn't show http, last I knew. HTTPS, FTP, etc should all still show by default.

[Joga5000]

Yeah browser.urlbar.trimURLs is the magic about:config setting. I really don't understand why they trim it by default. I guess the same reason why Windows doesn't show filename extensions by default either. (Simpler? Less cluttered? Regardless, it's bad default behavior)

[pal-moz]

It only doesn't show http, last I knew. HTTPS, FTP, etc should all still show by default.

I really don't understand why they trim it by default.

Bug 665580 - Hide http:// and single trailing slashes in the location bar

This makes the location bar more user-friendly, Chrome and Opera are already doing it.

[KWierso]

HTTP just says you're on a webpage. It doesn't really give you much information beyond that. You should be able to know you're on a webpage without those four letters and three extra characters.

[JayhawksRock]

HTTP just says you're on a webpage. It doesn't really give you much information beyond that. You should be able to know you're on a webpage without those four letters and three extra characters.

I'm stuck there with the OP... Maybe he is Old School. I'm Just Old

[Briscoe]

HTTP just says you're on a webpage. It doesn't really give you much information beyond that. You should be able to know you're on a webpage without those four letters and three extra characters.

I'm stuck there with the OP... Maybe he is Old School. I'm Just Old

I tried what you posted and I could not get on one site. I kept getting an error saying Firefox was not redirecting properly.

[JayhawksRock]

HTTP just says you're on a webpage. It doesn't really give you much information beyond that. You should be able to know you're on a webpage without those four letters and three extra characters.

I'm stuck there with the OP... Maybe he is Old School. I'm Just Old

I tried what you posted and I could not get on one site. I kept getting an error saying Firefox was not redirecting properly.

Not related. Whether you see the full URL or not Firefox always uses the full full URL version. To prove it to yourself, reverse what you changed, then copy the shortened URL and paste into a text editor. This is the copy and pasted shortened URL of this post
>http://forums.mozillazine.org/posting.php?mode=quote&f=23&p=12078611<

I dont knw the answer to your REAL redirect problem, but it is most likely a website problem