Open Bug 1736955 Opened 3 years ago Updated 2 years ago

Trim www, https:// scheme, and slashes from URLs

Categories

(Firefox :: Address Bar, enhancement, P5)

Product:
Firefox
Component:
Address Bar
Version:
Firefox 93
Type:
enhancement

Tracking

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Tracking Flags:
Tracking Status
firefox93 --- affected
firefox94 --- affected
firefox95 --- affected

People

(Reporter: patricek, Unassigned)

References

Details

User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64; rv:93.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/93.0

Steps to reproduce:

  1. Open URLs like https://www.google.com/
  2. Long URL appear

Actual results:

URL don't have option to shorten from: "https://www.google.com/" to "google.com" (without slashes, without www, without https://)

Note: This option is available in Opera

Expected results:

This option should appear in Settings, the General panel Browsing section

The Bugbug bot thinks this bug should belong to the 'Firefox::Address Bar' component, and is moving the bug to that component. Please revert this change in case you think the bot is wrong.

Component: Untriaged → Address Bar

Marking this enhancement as new in order to get an official response regarding this.

Severity: -- → S4
Status: UNCONFIRMED → NEW
status-firefox93: --- → affected
status-firefox94: --- → affected
status-firefox95: --- → affected
Ever confirmed: true
OS: Unspecified → All
Hardware: Unspecified → All

Hiding https:// is bug 1067293. I didn't find a bug for hiding www or trailing slashes, so I guess this can be that.

Severity: S4 → N/A
Priority: -- → P5
See Also: → https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1067293
Summary: Add accessibility option to shorten urls in adress bar → Trim www, https:// scheme, and slashes from URLs
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