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Since Firefox 7 (or 6?) they silently removed "http" from the address bar. Previously, when you clicked it, "http" showed up again, allowing to easily just change http into https.

So far, I found two ways to get it back, but isn't there a setting I can use to have it permanently in vision again, or at least when I click it?

  • Way 1: copy selection and paste it again
  • Way 2: type the whole scheme again in front of the address
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From the mozillazine forum:

Type about:config in Location (address) bar filter for browser.urlbar.trimURLs right-click or double-left-click and Toggle this to false

The http:// should then show up again.

oh and setting the browser.urlbar.formatting.enabled preference as false may be of interest also.

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Those settings don't both hide-during-view and show-when-edit (Opera behavior), but I don't see other settings that can do this, so I guess it's either all or nothing here. – Abel Oct 31 '11 at 10:56
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