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Show protocol portion of URL in Firefox 7+

Firefox 7 is out now. One of the "fixes" is that Firefox now follows Opera and Chrome is hidding the http:// protocol portion of URLs in the address bar. As a security professional I enjoy being able to easily see what protocol my browser is talking (http/https/ftp) in any given tab/window. You can restore the previous functionality by navigating to about:config and setting: browser.urlbar.trimURLs = false

VOTE for Firefox TLS 1.2 Support

As some of you may have heard TLS1.0 got some bad news/press recently. Various details: One , Two , and Three or check this Technical Paper (pdf) . So please go over here -> Firefox : Bug 480514 - Implement TLS 1.2 (RFC 5246) and VOTE! If you're really ambitious you could also go vote for TLS 1.1 implementation (for the sake of maximizing compatability with web servers): Firefox : Bug 565047 - Implement TLS 1.1 (RFC 4346)