Always Awesome Bar

I personally hate the fact that when you bring up the Add-on Manager, the URL bar goes away. If you're annoyed by that as well, I've created an add-on to solve that - Always Awesome Bar.

alwaysawesomebar

With this add-on installed, URLs that typically make the URL bar go away behave like normal URLs.

6 Responses to “Always Awesome Bar”

  1. Caspy7 March 7, 2013 at 3:47 pm #

    I get a bit annoyed too, but I content myself with the knowledge that this was done to protect users from being spoofed by websites.

    • Mike Kaply March 7, 2013 at 3:55 pm #

      You're mistaken as to what this add-on does. It puts the URL bar back in certain cases. Firefox UI folks made a conscious decision to remove the URL bar in some cases when internal pages are shown. This removes that feature.

      • Benedikt P. [:Mic] March 7, 2013 at 5:36 pm #

        Judging by the screenshot, the add-on manager could be spoofed by webpages now.

        • Mike Kaply March 7, 2013 at 6:26 pm #

          Chrome doesn't seem to have that problem...

          If you can't figure out that it's not the real add-ons page by looking at the URL bar, you probably shouldn't be installing this extension (or any extension for that matter ).

  2. Andreas Kohl March 13, 2013 at 4:19 am #

    But unfortunately it's not installable here for Seamonkey from Addon wep page. It would be nice to have a link to the xpi file.

    • Mike Kaply March 13, 2013 at 11:29 am #

      Seamonkey doesn't have this problem (at least not from what I see). If you go to about:addons, it still shows the URL bar...

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