Yes, because the internet is not restricted to English letters.
Just imagine you had to visit アップル instead of apple.com! And most importantly, would you trust yourself to see the difference that and say プッアル consistently without seeing the real reference?
Just to be clear, I hate it when the browsers hides part of the url too. Show me the https god damn! But internationalization is a good thing, as it makes the internet accessible to more people.
disable unicode representation of these types of domains in firefox by flipping this setting (in about:config) from the default ‘false’ to TRUE:
network.IDN_show_punycode
so you see аррӏе.com instead of аррӏе.com
compare to (the real deal): apple.com
Looks like it’s already flipped to true in Librewolf, glad they seem to have some common sense compared to mozilla.
Is there any good reason for a browser to mask the real URLs like that? There seems to be a trend of hiding parts of the URL people see lately.
You may have gotten me to switch browsers
To have other languages able to be displayed in the title… e.g. https://wiki.ポケモン.com/wiki/メインページ
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This is the big thing that should be happening, even just a little icon in the bar when it’s happening to switch between the two representations.
Yes, because the internet is not restricted to English letters.
Just imagine you had to visit アップル instead of apple.com! And most importantly, would you trust yourself to see the difference that and say プッアル consistently without seeing the real reference?
Just to be clear, I hate it when the browsers hides part of the url too. Show me the https god damn! But internationalization is a good thing, as it makes the internet accessible to more people.
Stop it! The only words that matter are those that can be written in ASCII! The rest of the world just wants to scare you with gibberish letters!
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Wouldn’t you also be able to hover the link and check the URL in the bottom left?
Any way to fix this on mobile? about:config isn’t a thing.
In Firefox Nightly you can iirc
Does anyone using Mullvad Browser know why this setting is not enabled by default? I just checked. If it is important for security it should be.
Oh so that’s what punycode means, I always wondered what it meant