Mozilla Labs: the URL Bar Has To Go 591
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from the command-line-strikes-back dept.
from the command-line-strikes-back dept.
An anonymous reader writes with an editorial from ConceivableTech "Since Google's move to enable users to hide the URL bar, we have seen what could be the beginning of the end of one of the key features of the web browser. Mozilla has its own thoughts, but there is little doubt that Mozilla is reconsidering the purpose of the URL bar in future versions of its browsers. In a Mozilla Labs post today, David Regev suggests that the location bar should be replaced with a tool to support more than just one command."
Great idea! (Score:2, Interesting)
You know who else didn't have a URL bar?
AOL.
Re:Following Google to Stupidity (Score:5, Interesting)
Re:Following Google to Stupidity (Score:4, Interesting)
You're confusing "Mozilla" (like the people who are shipping the Firefox browser) and "Mozilla Labs" (the people whose job it is to brainstorm and come up with ideas, prototype them, and see if they work).
Some Labs ideas end up in the browser after they've been prototyped and the like. Most don't.
The only difference between that and what Apple and Google do is that they keep their prototyping work hidden for the most part, so you don't get articles about all the things they're thinking of trying that then don't pan out.
Re:Following Google to Stupidity (Score:2, Interesting)
He did say after a cold start. Perhaps he's one of those idiots who turn their computers off when not using them to save on energy and GHG emissions and the planet and so on.
Then again, he could be a troll just complaining just to complain as it would appear if we ignored the cold boot part of the complaint.