How do you type in a new web address in the Firefox web browser? Do you click with your mouse in the urlbar and start typing? Do you use the keyboard shortcut Ctrl-L instead to activate the urlbar? Whatever you do, you first need to activate the urlbar before you can start typing in the [...]
- Author: Martin Brinkmann
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Improve Firefox’s Urlbar With Locationbar2
The website address is an essential element of any web browser, or at least of the browser’s of this generation as some browser developers experiment with designs that remove the addresses fully or partially from the browser (see Mozilla Also Experimenting With Url Bar-less Designs and Will Google Kill the URL Bar in Chrome?). Why [...]
- Author: Martin Brinkmann
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Mozilla Also Experimenting With Url Bar-less Designs
Mike recently wrote a piece on Google’s idea to kill the Google Chrome url bar in order to save up more space for websites and web applications (see Will Google Kill the URL Bar in Chrome?). It appears that Google is not the only company that experiments in that direction. Mozilla’s Paul Rouget published a [...]
- Author: Martin Brinkmann
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Popup Url and Search Bar, Hides Urlbar In Firefox, Replaces It With OnDemand Popup
Removing toolbars from a web browser is an efficient option to increase the available screen estate for websites in the Internet browser. This is usually more interesting to users who work on low resolution screens, but users who like a minimalistic browser interface benefit from it as well. Popup Url and Search Bar is a [...]
- Author: Martin Brinkmann
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Firefox URLBar Extension
UrlbarExt is an experimental Firefox add-on that adds a few interesting functions to the Firefox location bar. Experimental meaning that users have to log into an account at the Mozilla website to download and install the add-on. It is usually not an indicator of a “not yet ready” add-on. Users who do not have an [...]