Firefox Plugin to add Address Field to Stripped Pop-Up Windows

November 21, 2006 6:45 AM

Firefox plugin: I'm after the name/link of the extension that will add the URL of a pop-up window as an additional header field, when the rest of the 'normal' window architecture/controls have been stripped out.
posted by peacay to computers & internet (7 comments total)

Are you looking for the abilities located when you press the "Advanced" button next to the "Enable Javascript" checkbox in Tools > Options > Content?

Also, you may be able to modify your user.js file to get the functionality you seek, as detailed here.
posted by WCityMike at 8:07 AM on November 21, 2006

Thanks very much WCityMike - your first suggestion did work for the specific site that has been bamboozling me. I don't think I've ever seen that option before (reformatted the hdd yesterday and upgraded FF at the same time is my excuse anyway).

But there is an extension which is handy in a general sense that I used to have (and spent about 2 hours searching vainly for over the last day or so) that displays the address for the pop-ups that I would still like to find.
posted by peacay at 8:25 AM on November 21, 2006

Just to clarify, then, what you're speaking of is an extension that will make sure that the Address Bar is always displayed? I'm not quite clear what you mean by "an additional header field."
posted by WCityMike at 9:35 AM on November 21, 2006

Yeah. I might have the language wrong but in those windows (only pop-ups I think) where all the back/refresh/file/edit etc controls are gone and there is nothing more than the top edge of a window with the firefox symbol ---- this particular extension or plugin or addon inserts a strip below that top edge in which the full URL of the page is displayed.

Come to think of it (although my memory is now fading) it might also add that strip to every window, pop-up or otherwise - I could be wrong about that. I just found it very handy at times and can't recall how or why I ditched it in the past. But even with my lateral thinking hat on in relation to search terms, I cannot find hide nor hair of it.
posted by peacay at 10:07 AM on November 21, 2006

..inserts a strip below.. So it's not an address bar per se in which you can modify the URL, it's just a narrow bit of, you know, background beige or whatever, with the http://blah.com viewable and copyable.
posted by peacay at 10:12 AM on November 21, 2006

This is almost certainly not what you're looking for, but there's this. It seems to do somewhat of the same job, although not as elegantly as you describe it.
posted by WCityMike at 1:01 PM on November 21, 2006

Thanks for the thought. Damn! I'll comfort myself with the illusion that the elegant script whose name escapes me doesn't work in FF2.0.
posted by peacay at 3:37 AM on November 22, 2006