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unfortunately, that's not the regular clueless legislator.

That's an example of the shift of power happening in the web.

Remember when you started using firefox because of all the options and "about:config"?

Now, remember how you ditched it for Chrome, but have to start firefox to be able to use crazedlist.org because to disable cross-site referrer on chrome you have to recompile it? (they even removed the command line option!)

In a few chrome versions (what happens every 15min), I doubt you will be able to disable cookies.



Never heard of crazedlist.org but you can use extensions for cross site referring http://code.google.com/chrome/extensions/xhr.html


Don't think we are talking about the same thing.

I'm talking about the referrer headers.

It used to have an option. Then they moved it to a command line[1]. now they removed it completely!

Disabling referrer header kills some google features in adwords and analytics. So they have more than enough reason to kill it first.

[1] http://darklaunch.com/2011/05/07/chrome-disable-referer-head...


Ok, thanks for the info.


If anyone else is bugged by the lack of control on your referrer headers, star this http://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=84177

For the address bar, i had no luck finding a bug. anyone?


FWIW, on Firefox I use the refcontrol addon, and I've not experienced any problems yet. If the referer domain is different to the domain of the request, it modifies the referer to be the root of the site being requested.


that's even better than the about:config option of allowing it just for clicks, not for scripts/iframes/etc. thanks


Also, remember the old firefox moto? "Take back the web"?

it's just changed to "Made to make the Web a better place."... can it get more Orwelian? :D

Give me back my browser control. and stop hiding my url bar, dammit! ...they start removing the protocol, nobody bothers. ha http, who cares? Then move a little to the side, 'to align with the tab'. Then will make it autohide. And before you notice the only way to go to a page is to use AOL^H^H^H GOOGLE KEYWORDS.


There's no reason to have a URL bar on the top of the screen all the time, just to enter a url manually.

A "Enter URL" menu item would Work just fine.


I think the pentadactyl[1]/vimperator[2] ui is nice; I can see the URL of the page I'm currently browsing, but it claims minimal screen real-estate.

[1]: http://dactyl.sourceforge.net/pentadactyl/ [2]: http://vimperator.org/vimperator


having the url bar always visible had the added benefit of not promoting dumb thins like vignete cms url schema.

plus I more copy from urls than type then in in




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