"http://" to be dropped from Firefox 7 address bar
Firefox 7's modified URL view
The Firefox developers have followed the Chrome and Opera decision to not display "http://" when showing URLs in the address bar. The modifications have just been made to the "nightly" development version of the browser which will become Firefox 7 later this year. The change is aimed at making URLs more readable. The changes to the address bar will also see elements of a URL such as "www." displayed in a lighter font colour. Only http:// URLs will be affected; like Chrome, Firefox will display https:// URLs in full.
