How to Display Full URL in Address Bar?
I'm using Firefox 14.0.1 on a new computer running Windows 7 Home Edition. I cannot for the life of me figure out why my URLs are getting truncated. For instance, right now, all I can see in my address bar for this website is "https://support.mozil;" if I type in yahoo.com I end up with "http://www.yahoo.co." I can scroll through in the address bar to see the rest of the URL, but I'd like to see the whole thing at once!
I know you can type about:config into the address bar and change the value of browser.urlbar.trimURLs to false, but I tried that and it doesn't do a thing. I have Firefox on my old computer, and it's not giving me the issue there. So perhaps I have an interfering plugin? The only new thing I have on this system is HP SimplePass (I can't stand HP software). Anyone know what might be causing the issue?
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If your Navigation Toolbar is sharing space with another toolbar or the tab bar, or a huge number of buttons, the length of the address box may be severely shortened. Is that the issue or is there empty white space where the address should appear and just doesn't?
Hmm... I moved the reload button to the left-hand side of the screen... But I can't think of anything else that may have caused it. I actually just fixed the problem by going into Help > Troubleshooting Information > Reset Firefox. It doesn't tell me the problem, but it did fix it.
The new Reset feature duplicates certain key data from your active settings folder into a new one, bypassing some add-ons and custom settings. So it could have been your toolbar settings file, or one of your add-ons. Hard to say at this point...
If you want to experiment with fixing your old settings folder (AKA Firefox profile), you can switch back and forth using Firefox's Profile Manager. More info if desired: Profile Manager - Create, remove or switch Firefox profiles (I recommend against deleting anything for a few weeks until you're 110% certain you don't need anything in the other profile folder).
That's good to know. Thanks for the info!
Start Firefox in Safe Mode to check if one of the extensions or if hardware acceleration is causing the problem (switch to the DEFAULT theme: Firefox/Tools > Add-ons > Appearance/Themes).
- Don't make any changes on the Safe mode start window.
- https://support.mozilla.org/kb/Safe+Mode
I, too, had the truncated URL in the address bar. (Firefox 16.0.2 on Windows 7 Home Premium)
These measures did not help:
- about:config and change browser.urlbar.trimURLs to false
- Help > Troubleshooting Information > Reset Firefox
This measure did help:
- uninstall HP SimplePass
I had had the full URL in the address bar while running HP SimplePass, so I do not believe that they are inherently incompatible. I'm just saying these measures, in this order, gave me back the full URL.
When I disabled HP Simple Pass, the URLs were not shown anymore in the navigation bar. After enabling back HP Simple Pass the URLs were shown again.
Yeah, this is the problem, when you disable the Simple Pass plugin, the addresses get truncated, but if you enable it, that annoying app will appear every time you input a password, the question here is how can we deleted Simple Pass from Firefox (no all the computer)?
The Extensions page has no Remove button, that usually means you need to remove it through the Windows Control Panel (Add/Remove Programs or Programs and Features, depending on your version of Windows). Does it show up there?