Bringing back the favicon and the colored lock in the address bar in Firefox
If you are like me and really dislike the removal of the favicon and the blue/green background for SSL connections from the address bar in Firefox 14 and newer, I recommend you install these two Firefox addons: Favicon Restorer and Site Identity Button Colors.
And you probably remember that Firefox 6 and Firefox 7 removed the http:// protocol from the URL and highlighted the domain name of the URL? If you don’t like them, you can revert these changes by setting browser.urlbar.formatting.enabled = false and browser.urlbar.trimURLs = false.
Maybe I’m the only one to think this way, but I really think improvements made to the address bar are going the wrong way.
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‘I really think improvements made to the address bar are going the wrong way.’
Yup
You’re not the only one. These are the exact changes and almost the same extensions I already have. The difference was I have the "Site Favicon in URLbar" extension instead (my link)
I agree. In fact, there’s one change you didn’t mention which I also think was wrong: Removing the left border on the stop/reload/go button.
I actually wrote a Userscript to bring it back along with a detailed analysis of why it was wrong to remove it:
http://userstyles.org/styles/56465/firefox-9-restore-left-border-on-reload-button
I couldn’t live with the protocol so I made sure I didn’t remove it. I had not noticed the favicon nor the color change so I guess I’m good with it.
Personally, I really like the change to remove the favicon, because it removes a major spoofing possibility, and puts the favicon in exactly one place rather than two.
Strong agreement with OP.