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Firefox 3: URL highlighting 12 Jul 2007
ars technica reports on the new anti-phishing measures introduced in Firefox 3. The most interesting, from a user experience perspective, is also the most "lo-tech". As you can see in the image above, Firefox 3 incorporates the Locationbar2 add-on which enables it to prominently display the domain and subdomain information of any given web address while fading other address information to a lighter shade of grey.
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2 comments so far
Lar 12 Jul 2007 10:32 AM
We've done quite a lot of user testing over the last couple of years and have found that quite a large portion of participants use the Google search bar as their address bar and have absolute trust in what Google brings back. Have you noticed a similar phenomenon?
Simon 12 Jul 2007 10:38 AM
Lar: Do you mean that they enter search queries into the address bar and rely on FF's default integration with Google's "I'm Feeling Lucky" feature to send them to the correct site?
Or do you mean that they enter URLs into the Google search toolbar?