The sad part is that Mozilla is probably going to follow suit just like they did with the previous attacks on the bar.
Google adds experimental setting to hide full URLs in Chrome 85 address bar
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Re: Google adds experimental setting to hide full URLs in Chrome 85 address bar
#42At 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.
I can't find this option on Chrome on Linux. I had to get an extension to show the full URL, but it only works for 'https://' URLs, not for 'http://'.
This drives me crazy when debugging. Whenever I copy-paste IP addresses from the browser address bar into my console, I have to manually delete the `http://` at the front. I work on a P2P project so this is an extremely common situation for me.
Re: Google adds experimental setting to hide full URLs in Chrome 85 address bar
#43This, along with the inability of disabling the async dns feature in the latest Chrome for desktop versions (thus making pihole/adguard irrelevant), makes me accelerate the change to another browser.
I'm curious - why do you want to disable it?
Re: Google adds experimental setting to hide full URLs in Chrome 85 address bar
#44Wonder how long it’ll be before it shows the proxied URL on amp pages...
I think they're already trying to force that at the network level instead of the browser level using signed exchanges.
https://developers.google.com/web/updates/2018/11/signed-exc...
Re: Google adds experimental setting to hide full URLs in Chrome 85 address bar
#45This 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.
The question is, why haven't you quit already? The only things it offers others don't, are anti consumer vendor lock in nonsense like hangouts and google earth. (Not sure about hangouts and meet these days, mozilla likely made it work, but not for lack of scumbag google trying otherwise).
Re: Google adds experimental setting to hide full URLs in Chrome 85 address bar
#46Wonder how long it’ll be before it shows the proxied URL on amp pages...
Yes, walling the garden has been the goal all along.
Re: Google adds experimental setting to hide full URLs in Chrome 85 address bar
#47Earlier quoted context omitted.
www is dropped from the url, so I don't believe that's the case
It is, there’s a long special list for domains that host arbitrary subdomains, GitHub pages is one of them. It’s explained well in https://youtu.be/0-wB1VY3Nrc
Wait, seriously? Their default behaviour is so broken that they have to whitelist a ton of sites, and screw anybody who slips through the net (or is trying to start a new service)?
Re: Google adds experimental setting to hide full URLs in Chrome 85 address bar
#48Wonder how long it’ll be before it shows the proxied URL on amp pages...
I think they're already trying to force that at the network level instead of the browser level using signed exchanges. https://developers.google.com/web/updates/2018/11/signed-exc...
Ffs. I’m going back to gopher at some point.
Re: Google adds experimental setting to hide full URLs in Chrome 85 address bar
#49At 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.
Yes they always remove such flags later, does not matter if it's there right now.
Re: Google adds experimental setting to hide full URLs in Chrome 85 address bar
#50Isn'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.
It makes their serving of AMP less transparent, which is a good thing for them. I guess.
I'm starting to wonder when the EU will raise the anti-trust flag. It seems obvious to me that Google tries to use it's start page market dominance to become the only webpage served on the Internet.