I guess Linux distros should start supplying patched Chromium then.
I doubt that Ubuntu moving to having Chrome being a snap is a good sign for them doing the right thing with a custom Chromium.
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
#72Earlier quoted context omitted.
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)?
Most browsers use the Mozilla public suffix list [1] that is frequently updated, and a new service can easily submit a new entry. This list is used for many different features.
This list is necessary anyway, because you have top level domains that look like .co.uk, so you can't just split the domain name by dots and take the last component to determine the top level domain.
So, not saying I unconditionally like the fact they are hiding important information in the URL bar, but I would not say their default behavior is that broken.
[1] https://publicsuffix.org - probably the list being mentioned in the video linked by the parent commenter, I guess
Re: Google adds experimental setting to hide full URLs in Chrome 85 address bar
#73This 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).
Because it has bugs that make it unusable for some people (e.g developers) - https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1628162
Re: Google adds experimental setting to hide full URLs in Chrome 85 address bar
#74At 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.
Are you running version 83 or later? I think they introduced the flag in that one.
Another solution for Windows and macOS users (no Linux sadly) is to use Edge Chromium, which does it by default, and you prefer to donate your data to Microsoft rather than Google like me :)
Re: Google adds experimental setting to hide full URLs in Chrome 85 address bar
#75This 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 switched to Firefox years ago and never looked back.
Firefox donating to what is literally a encrypted message service for open societies foundation agitprop groups is what made me purge firefox from all my systems. I'd rather be tracked up the A by google for commercial purposes than supporting anti-democratic agitprop bullshit.
Re: Google adds experimental setting to hide full URLs in Chrome 85 address bar
#76Earlier quoted context omitted.
It is weird not more people just respond this way rather than getting all worked up about it...
Passwords and bookmarks are in Chrome. That's the main point of friction. But I do re-evaluate Firefox from time to time. So far there has often been small things which made me reluctant. I think this feature is important enough for me to consider switching this time.
You can easily transfer those to Firefox.
That being said, I admit that staright out of the box Firefox doesn't have the same experience but you can customize every little thing about it to make it suit your needs.
Re: Google adds experimental setting to hide full URLs in Chrome 85 address bar
#77Earlier quoted context omitted.
It is weird not more people just respond this way rather than getting all worked up about it...
It's weird that people like a particular browswer for a number of its feature, but are upset about a change that makes it worse?
Chrome is the new IE. Some sites don’t work (well) with others browsers, so people are annoyed when the browser they are forced to use does stupid things.
Re: Google adds experimental setting to hide full URLs in Chrome 85 address bar
#78Re: Google adds experimental setting to hide full URLs in Chrome 85 address bar
#79While this might be useful for a casual user, hidden URLs are a huge problem for web developers. Asking for a screenshot from client is not enough, now I'll have to provide additional instructions how to copy/paste full URL when reporting issues. Not to mention all possible problems with misconfigured servers when www and www-less domains lead to same website, but some script refuses to work on one of those. While it…
there is a trick for at least chrome before 85, where if you install the google-made extension "suspicious site reporter" it will show the full url including protocol (which you can't even do with flags so it tampers with something internally which means they don't have to do this at all)
Re: Google adds experimental setting to hide full URLs in Chrome 85 address bar
#80Isn'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.
They don't do this for the benefit of the user, but to benefit themselves. Its all about making the web into google lah lah land where they control everything.
I increasingly find myself using other search engines when looking up political contents. Google's seems to be censored, or wheigthed in a way that gives it heavy political bias. I wish they would just give good search results, like they used to. Would be a lot less hassle.