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How to prevent Firefox from hiding the 'http://' URL prefix?

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Mar 15, 20262585 views
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I upgraded to Firefox 7.0.1 and the 'Google Shortener' stops working. I think this happens because in Firefox 7.0.1 the URL prefix is now hidden by default. How do I get the back in the location bar? I checked in the and could not find a entry for this.

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Fix for: How to prevent Firefox from hiding the 'http://' URL prefix?

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According to this post, you can revert it to the old behavior by setting browser.urlbar.trimURLs to false in about:config.

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