Quote from: PowerGlove on Today at 04:34:28 AM

Quote from: NotATether on Today at 03:57:26 AM

Why have Chrome and Firefox stopped showing the links in big fat text at the bottom of the screen? (instead of the small tiny url cramped into one corner only when loading the page, which is for all practical purposes invisible to most users)??

That still works for me in both Firefox and Chrome (Windows and Linux). It is pretty small though. Maybe you have some unusual extension installed?

That box is exactly what I'm talking about, but let me clarify it with some ASCII drawings.

Right now, when you are loading a page on Chrome and Firefox, they look like this, with the url in the lower-left status trimmed (unless you move your mouse there, then it moves to the lower-right, and vice versa):

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# <- -> % |bitcointalk.org.hackers.inc/login.php | : #
#-----------------------------------------------------------#
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# CONTENT #
# #
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#------------------------ #
#Loading https://hack...| #
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It's not proportional, the real browser window makes the status bar about half of this size, and slightly more text, but you get the idea.

What I believe they should be showing is this:

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# <- -> % | **hackers.inc** | : #
#-----------------------------------------------------------#
# #
# #
# #
# #
# #
# CONTENT #
# #
# #
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# #
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#------------------------ #
#Loading https://hack...| #
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There is only the root domain name in bold inside the URL bar (if you click inside the URL bar, then you will be able to see the full URL). The subdomains are hidden, so that less people get fooled. Most people will only look at the left-most part of the URL to see what website they are on, and hackers take advantage of that.

They already design it like that on mobile, but IMO this should be on desktop too, ideally with a setting to revert to the old behavior.