Re: status=no compatibility problems

Gérard Talbot said the following on 1/30/2006 5:53 PM:
> Randy Webb wrote :
>
>> Your client is out of luck. The reason you can't remove it is because
>> too many people abused it and users complained to the browser people
>> and now you can't remove it.
>
> Exactly. And IE7 (starting with beta 2) will force the address bar at
> all time. Because of hacks, phishing attacks, etc.. Everything clearly
> worded like this:
>
> "We think the address bar is also important for users to see in pop-up
> windows. A missing address bar creates a chance for a fraudster to forge
> an address of their own. To help thwart that, IE7 will show the address
> bar on all internet windows to help users see where they are."
> coming from Microsoft Internet Explorer Blog, Better Website Identification
> http://blogs.msdn.com/ie/archive/2005/11/21.aspx

About time MS caught up with everybody else. Now, if Mozilla and the
rest will enforce that without me having to edit a file to force an
address bar :)

How does one request that features like that be added in Mozilla though?

I know I can edit the user_prefs file but it would be nice if you didn't
have to.

-- 
Randy
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