The motivation is supposedly a "regulatory requirement". There is at
least speculation that the EU wanted the Address Bar removed as part
of it's antitrust case against Microsoft though I haven't seen an
argument that makes sense.
Do a Google search for:
xp sp3 address bar
to find some relevant information.
>Date: Sun, 18 May 2008 09:29:10 +0200
>From: " Kim Gr?sman " <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>Subject: Re: [DQSD-Users] Good solution for missing address bar in XP
> SP3
>To: "DQSD users mailing list" <dqsd-users@lists.sourceforge.net>
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>Hi Bob,
>
>Oops, looks like we have a target market again ;-)
>
>This is good info, I had no idea the address bar was sentenced for
>removal. Have you seen any motivation? I thought SP3 was just a rollup
>of fixes...
>
>- Kim
>
>On Sun, May 18, 2008 at 3:39 AM, Bob Coleman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > People who will initially read this don't really need to read
> > it. I'm posting for the benefit of anyone who may do web search on
> > the issue of the removal of the Address toolbar in Windows XP SP3.
> >
> > One solution for people distressed at the loss of the Address Bar is
> > to install DQSD.
> >
> > I had used DQSD some time ago, but abandoned it due to problems I
> > don't completely recall when XP SP2 came out. Upon discovering the
> > loss of the Address Bar in SP3, I came back to look at DQSD
> > again. Version 4.0 Release Candidate 3 seems, for me, at least, to
> > be a good solution to the loss of the Windows Address Bar.
>
>
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