Re: Mozilla Firefox 2.0 Chrome Changes



On Mar 3, 2006, at 4:57 AM, Kristoffer Lundén wrote:

On 3/2/06, Luis Villa <luis villa gmail com> wrote:

[The status bar] is a terrible place to show extra information, because one of the things that usability testing has shown over and over again is that very few people ever see information put down there. So if you'd said 'an excellent place to hide information in plain sight', I'd agree...

I'm sure that testing has shown that, but it's still making it even
worse to just remove it.

It's only making it worse if the people who don't know/bother to toggle the status bar's visibility get more benefit from having the URLs there than they would get from the extra space. For that to be true, there would need to be a decent chunk of people who are savvy enough to study URLs while hovering over links, but *aren't* savvy enough to turn on "View" > "Status Bar" the first time they ever use the browser. That's hard to believe.

If you're trying to protect people in general against phishing, you'll need a much more visible and understandable mechanism.

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Matthew Paul Thomas
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