Locationbar² - added features for the Firefox location bar

The location bar in browsers hasn't changed in, well, a darn long time. The last big advance was probably the introduction of Favicons. Firefox Add-In Locationbar² attempts to upgrade the location bar and make it both more readable, and more useful. It breaks apart the sections of the URL, optionally hiding the protocol, and if you hold a modifier key (Shift, Alt or Ctrl) it allows you to click on any level of the URL to jump there.

While it certainly seems more useful, it's also a bit disconcerting. URLs have looked the same for a long, long time. It's unclear whether this new way of displaying them is truthfully easier on the eyes, or if it just creates more confusion that must be deciphered before processing what you're looking at. The ability to jump anywhere in the URL's folder structure is definitely useful though.

Tags: browsertips, Favicon, Firefox location bar, FirefoxLocationBar, freeware, Locationbar2, Mozilla