Comments on: Title Bar with the URL in a Firefox Pop-up

By: intranet developer

intranet developer — Sun, 08 Jul 2007 11:14:39 +0000

This bug(!) in FF will most likely remove Firefox completely from the list of accepted browsers in the company I am currently working for. It is a bug because, as stated above, it changes a variable the developer has set.
I am developing intranet applications. We can NOT make the users install any plugins (which is rediculous as a fix for a bug in the main application anyway). Users can NOT browse the internet, so this so called “security feature” falls back to a pure pain in the ass.

IE 7 does not show this behaviour, so I guess it’s IE 7 instead of Firefox for about 800 users from now on, if I do not find a reliable way to stop Firefox from invalidating data.

By: John Caradimas

John Caradimas — Thu, 28 Jun 2007 11:34:02 +0000

I have been trying to figure this out for quite some time and I just did a google search and came here. It might be a feature, but I hate it. The URL could be placed after the title, after all, if you define a title you want that title to show not the URL. I understand the security issues, but showing the URL is NOT a solution, in a tiny window (and that’s what the … bad sites will open), the URL will not show anyway. Maybe http:// will show if even that.

By: Andy

Andy — Sat, 14 Apr 2007 00:22:32 +0000

I was also looking for a way to get around the title prefix in popups.

Thanks for providing the solution, although the location bar is annoying, I believe it is actually forced in IE7 anyway, which doesn’t provide a prefix.

Clearly an attempt at a security feature but also very annoying. I think i’ll live with the location bar though.

By: Web Things Considered » Firefox 2 takes new measures against popups

Web Things Considered » Firefox 2 takes new measures against popups — Sat, 18 Nov 2006 00:51:00 +0000

[…] Anyway, couple the focus issues with the title bar issue discovered by a co-worker, and it really seems that FF is pushing hard against pop-ups. […]

By: Ole Olafson

Ole Olafson — Tue, 22 Aug 2006 09:13:01 +0000

I found a way to disable the URL in the titlebar. Thus it is important to know that this means to open a security hole, as it enables malicious sites to hide their address when opening a popup-window!

IMHO this is not a bug but a feature, but it should be able for the experienced user to change this behaviour.

There is an extension called “Titlebar Tweaks” which can be found here:
http://www.cosmicat.com/extensions/titletweak/

The version provided there is only compatible with Mozilla Firefox 0.9, 1.0, and Deer Park Alpha 1, but there is a patched version at http://btcorp.dyndns.org/Tools/FireFoxExtensions/ that will (and does) work with 1.5

What is does ist to allow the user to customize the titlebar, thus as modifying the displayed browser name and the order in which page title and browser name are displayed. BUT it also removes the URL in popup windows with the feature location=no set!

So, if you’re really sure you want to hide the URL and need a tiny window without location bar, just install this extension and chose to display the title only - this will bring you the most tiny browser window with only the information showed that you want to show - as is very useful if you work with or code browser based applications, e.g. when displaying any information on the titlebar wich should be readable when the window is minimized (like counters, notifications etc.)

Hope it helps! i’ve been searching two days to find this
Have fun-

By: Oink!

Oink! — Wed, 21 Jun 2006 20:52:07 +0000

I also found this page looking for a way to get rid of the URL on the title. IMHO it’s a bug.

By: CK

CK — Sun, 23 Apr 2006 14:57:00 +0000

I also ran into the same problem. In IE we can turnoff this feature, by adding the site as trusted.

I did not find a way to do this in FF.

By: Jared

Jared — Fri, 21 Apr 2006 17:41:58 +0000

It’s a feature to prevent website from spoofing windows dialog prompts and such.

By: Jonathan

Jonathan — Thu, 20 Apr 2006 19:50:47 +0000

I think it’s a bug, too. We should be able to disable the URL in the title bar when we don’t want it.

As for the trick explained above, it sure remove the URL from the title bar, but it also put back the location bar… I’d very much like to find a way to remove *both* !

By: Luc

Luc — Sat, 10 Dec 2005 01:22:26 +0000

I search around and I have found how to turn on the feature.
Go to the about:config page and turn off dom.disable_window_open_feature.location

Restart firefox, that should do the trick!