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Isn't this a good example of "feature creep"? I dont see any reason why it makes a browser more useful when the URL is partially hidden. It reminds me of a company which developed a product which was more or less done. So the SWE manager and the product manager made up new (pretty useless) features just to tell their bosses the devs are busy and the team must stay intact.
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Subdomains are part of the URI authority component so they should be shown. It will look like `something.github.io` or whatever.
www is dropped from the url, so I don't believe that's the case
Isn't this a good example of "feature creep"? I dont see any reason why it makes a browser more useful when the URL is partially hidden. It reminds me of a company which developed a product which was more or less done. So the SWE manager and the product manager made up new (pretty useless) features just to tell their bosses the devs are busy and the team must stay intact.
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Safari has an option to include the full URL. As a developer, I need the full URL so I turn on the option. If Chrome by some miracle actually goes through with this, I'll try to see if I can get around it (because at the end of the day, everyone uses chrome and chrome dev tools are by far the best).
> chrome dev tools are by far the best How are they better than those in Firefox? It looks like you did a thorough analysis.
At chrome://flags there is one called #omnibox-context-menu-show-full-urls, which I have turned on. This enables you to right click on the address bar, and turn on the option "Always show full URLs". It will always shows the full URL including the protocol, but I suspect they will remove this flag at some point.
Isn't this a good example of "feature creep"? I dont see any reason why it makes a browser more useful when the URL is partially hidden. It reminds me of a company which developed a product which was more or less done. So the SWE manager and the product manager made up new (pretty useless) features just to tell their bosses the devs are busy and the team must stay intact.
Just to play the devil advocate, removing the url bar gives slightly more room to display the website.
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Subdomains are part of the URI authority component so they should be shown. It will look like `something.github.io` or whatever.
www is dropped from the url, so I don't believe that's the case
This might be harmful to github pages where it would hide the repository name. If they include this without offering an option to turn it off, I will quit using Chrome.
I can see the arguments for why this might be advantageous security-wise. I just hope they make it easy to disable (and it remains possible to disable in future) for those of us who are technically minded and are able to read URLs.
Two recent examples off the top of my head are the recommended stories on the new tab page and the ability to disable images appearing in the omnibox.
Can see this being exploited in some fashion for phishing attacks..
If domain-owning organization fails to prevent a third party from hosting a phishing site under a path or a subdomain, that third party is likely well-positioned to deface the existing pages. With a subtle alteration (scripts that capture credentials and transmit them out), the existing pages grant an attacker all of the users with no extra effort—as opposed distributing a link to a fake page, convincing the user that the page is legit, and in the end getting a fraction of the user base.