Many mobile browsers do not give users the option to view full URLs, including protocol and (when applicable) www.
Iceraven is a close fork of Firefox that offers that option, so I know it's technically feasible and I think it just required a very small patch to implement four years ago.
The way Iceraven implemented it was to have a "Strip HTTP/HTTPS/WWW from URLs" option. It's on by default, but can be switched off by the user and stay off for years to come. :)
Waterfox could do it that way, and could even choose to leave if off by default (Thus showing full URLs to anyone who doesn't change the setting), if the developers so choose.
I won't do a song and dance about why this would be a good feature for Waterfox to add unless a dev really wants the song and dance. :)
It worries me that if Iceraven stopped putting out updates, that there would be no browsers (At least no Gecko browsers, at minimum) left that would let me see full URLs on mobile whenever the URL bar is visible on mobile, though. From a user perspective, having a second browser support this would almost be like like insurance.
From a Waterfox perspective, it's adding a customization offering that only one other other small Firefox fork has. That means for any user who this is important to, there would only be two places to go- and Waterfox could be one of them.
As mentioned, I'd love to see a browser implement full URLs by default. However, I recognize that this may or may not be the right strategic play for any given browser at any given time. Regardless of whether it's the default or not, simply having the option there can't hurt anything (Currently there is no option in WF)!
A nice second information related feature, and this one I think would be a first for currently maintained mobile browsers if Warerfoxed implemented it, would be to let people double-click (Double-touch?) a URL and have it show the IP address that the domain they're on resolves to. People who are curious can see how the IP address numbering system works in practice on all their favorite websites.
Many mobile browsers do not give users the option to view full URLs, including protocol and (when applicable) www.
Iceraven is a close fork of Firefox that offers that option, so I know it's technically feasible and I think it just required a very small patch to implement four years ago.
The way Iceraven implemented it was to have a "Strip HTTP/HTTPS/WWW from URLs" option. It's on by default, but can be switched off by the user and stay off for years to come. :)
Waterfox could do it that way, and could even choose to leave if off by default (Thus showing full URLs to anyone who doesn't change the setting), if the developers so choose.
I won't do a song and dance about why this would be a good feature for Waterfox to add unless a dev really wants the song and dance. :)
It worries me that if Iceraven stopped putting out updates, that there would be no browsers (At least no Gecko browsers, at minimum) left that would let me see full URLs on mobile whenever the URL bar is visible on mobile, though. From a user perspective, having a second browser support this would almost be like like insurance.
From a Waterfox perspective, it's adding a customization offering that only one other other small Firefox fork has. That means for any user who this is important to, there would only be two places to go- and Waterfox could be one of them.
As mentioned, I'd love to see a browser implement full URLs by default. However, I recognize that this may or may not be the right strategic play for any given browser at any given time. Regardless of whether it's the default or not, simply having the option there can't hurt anything (Currently there is no option in WF)!
A nice second information related feature, and this one I think would be a first for currently maintained mobile browsers if Warerfoxed implemented it, would be to let people double-click (Double-touch?) a URL and have it show the IP address that the domain they're on resolves to. People who are curious can see how the IP address numbering system works in practice on all their favorite websites.