This is a change that’s already been tried and reverted, and it was less than 10 years ago. What’s the point in doing it again? Changing the semantic representation of a URL does not help anyone, and only encourages misunderstandings that lead to security issues.

Who requested these changes? Was it the brainchild of someone who thinks they know what people want? Or is this more a case of telling people what’s good for them? If it’s the latter, I have several unprintable suggestions that would be just as good for the person doing the telling.

Can those of us who didn’t request this feature and don’t want it have an easily accessible option to turn it off? Or at least an option to show the old-school URL*? Bury it in about:config if you absolutely must, but please leave it available.

*Edit: By which I mean visible like it is in older versions of Firefox, not hidden behind something that has to be clicked every time the page changes.

Eh well, one more widget to remove in userChrome.css maybe. Doesn’t look like it should break anything.

If anyone from Mozilla happens to read this, the link to “Firefox version 138” on the version of the page I’m looking at goes to the v137 release notes.

yes, more fucking white space between text! i like new UIs but this spacewasting is stupid. we have monitors, not phones.

Don’t kill my search bar.

No. Good grief, no. I hope that Firefox dies from a lack of Google money before they release this garbage.