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Indirectly emphasize the full or base domain in the location bar by de-emphasizing/graying out the rest.
Indirectly emphasize the full or base domain in the location bar by de-emphasizing/graying out the rest.


Reason for change:
We're making this change because:
* The advantage is to be able to quickly identify what site you're on, and avoid getting tricked into thinking it's a different site.
* The advantage is to be able to quickly identify what site you're on, and avoid getting tricked into thinking it's a different site.



Revision as of 19:39, 30 June 2011

Feature Status ETA Owner
Highlight the domain name in the location bar Landed 2011-05-05 Dao Gottwald

Summary

Indirectly emphasize the full or base domain in the location bar by de-emphasizing/graying out the rest.

We're making this change because:

  • The advantage is to be able to quickly identify what site you're on, and avoid getting tricked into thinking it's a different site.

Team

  • Feature Manager: Dao Gottwald
  • Lead Developer: Dao Gottwald
  • Security: Curtis Koenig
  • QA: Simona Badau (irc: simonab)

Release Requirements

Next Steps & Open Issues

Highlight the full domain (like Chrome) or only the base domain (like IE, Opera)? We're currently doing the latter. Do we want a pref for this?

Related Bugs & Dependencies

bug 451833 bug 654411

Risks

Goals

Non-Goals

Chrome and Opera go further and hide "http://", for instance. That's not part of this feature.