At least Chrome let you right click the URL field and choose to view full URLs. Firefox has also started messing with the way URLs are displayed and you have to trawl through the about:config settings to stop the insanity.
EDIT: anyone care to explain the downvotes?
On secure sites, the full URL is displayed (including "https://").
Mind blown! Never noticed that there.
Amazing! Thanks for the tip.
I would have guessed the situation would be the opposite, easy to set in FireFox, obscured/hidden in Chrome. But apparently not! :)
I'm quite sure this option wasn't there when this "experiment" was added.
Every single goddamn time Firefox tries to bring themselves to being the bottom of the barrel, where "naive users need apply", they alienate their user base and all the other people associated to those users. I know that trying to grab market share seems like an "appease more people in the population", but Mozilla repeatedly seems to forget how much we are evangelical for those who don't even know that Firefox exists. The more they try to dumb down their browser, the more market share they lose. They still haven't learned this, and it completely boggles the mind.
Over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over again… Mozilla makes the wrong choice in trying to dumb down their browser. I could repeat "over and over" another few dozen times. They need a change in management at some level, because we're back to this dumb crap… again, "over and over again".