Always show the location bar in Firefox
Not showing the location bar hides a very valuable piece of information from the user. There have been recent discussions on making the information it conveys even more visible to the user. Why is it then that Firefox allows websites to hide it? IMHO, the valuable nature of this information from a security perspective vastly outweighs the slight visual improvement this provides for small popup windows.
To disable this:
- Go to about:config
- Find dom.disable_window_open_feature.location
- Double click to toggle it to
true
Hat tip to Mozilla Links 
PS. See Bug 337344
Idetrorce scrawled,
very interesting, but I don’t agree with you
Idetrorce
Link | December 15th, 2007 at 11:47 pm
Benjamin scrawled,
Thanks for the pointer. Hiding the URL is, IMO, pretty irresponsible if the browser isn’t running in kiosk mode.
Link | December 16th, 2007 at 4:58 am
sandra scrawled,
The trouble here is that I can’t see the location/URL on the page in Firefox – to see it, the advice is to change preferences by going to the location bar and then ‘about config’ – but as I can’t see the location…………can’t be done.
Any advice??
Link | March 9th, 2008 at 3:57 am
bruce scrawled,
THX! This worked GREAT. Now when I click one of those ‘tell me more’ type of windows, I can see where the heck it is originating from .
Wonderful.
P.S. for those who do not know how to apply this kind of hidden parameter setting: Type the phrase “about:config” right into the FireFox url address bar, as if going to a website.
press return and you will be presented with a huge long list of parameters. then scroll down to find the dom.disable_window_open_feature.location one and double click it.
Link | October 14th, 2008 at 11:00 am