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Chrome hides www and https:// in the address bar again

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Re: Chrome hides www and https:// in the address bar again

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This is extremely annoying for a project I'm working on that involves subdomains. If I set nginx to redirect `example.com` to `www.example.com` I want to verify it in the browser.

my chrome hasn't updated yet, but my understanding of this change was that you could display the full unmolested URL by simply clicking in the address bar. is that not the case?

double clicking. but still.

Re: Chrome hides www and https:// in the address bar again

#12
If I have one webpage with different languages and want my visitors recognize it from url, what are the options? Previously I could have www.example.com/en/ and www.example.com/fr/ etc If subdomains are not possible there's no hope that visitors using Chrome would see it?

Re: Chrome hides www and https:// in the address bar again

#13

I'm certainly not a fan of the new URI scheme, but it is worth pointing out that Safari has already made the same change. Furthermore I'm not convinced said change is a net-negative for the average consumer. Safari added the setting "Show full website address", which does just that. I wouldn't have a problem if Chrome followed suit and defaulted to the new scheme, but gave us the option to show the full URI.

I was reading your comment thinking, "What? No!" and then kept reading. I apparently checked "Show full website address" when the change was first made.

Re: Chrome hides www and https:// in the address bar again

#14
This is great and all until you (like me) need to be able to differentiate www.example.com from example.com and https:// example.com versus http:// example.com. My website doesn't forward example.com to www.example.com (due to errors on my part that I don't know how to fix, my email is in my profile and if you can help I'd greatly appreciate it).

I don't know if there are any scenarios in which a properly-configured website (mine isn't) needs to differentiate example.com from www.example.com. But I liked the ability to do so easily.

Re: Chrome hides www and https:// in the address bar again

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I absolutely do not want it to hide any URI schemes or subdomains at all. (I am able to change these settings in Firefox, at least. I could also disable Unicode rendering for the domain name, but to disable Unicode rendering for the filename I had to write an extension.)

By default, Firefox's address bar hides the http:// scheme but shows the https:// scheme (to emphasize that the connection is secure). Firefox users that want to see the http:// scheme can set the "browser.urlbar.trimURLs" about:config pref to false.

Re: Chrome hides www and https:// in the address bar again

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I'm certainly not a fan of the new URI scheme, but it is worth pointing out that Safari has already made the same change. Furthermore I'm not convinced said change is a net-negative for the average consumer. Safari added the setting "Show full website address", which does just that. I wouldn't have a problem if Chrome followed suit and defaulted to the new scheme, but gave us the option to show the full URI.

Safari only shows the domain name. Chrome still shows both the domain name (minus "www.") and URL path.

Re: Chrome hides www and https:// in the address bar again

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post #6

URLs represent and identify content,controling them means you control content. In the short term these changes mean little but in the long term this will benefit google immensely. Google just loves slippery slopes. Identity and payment are extremely important to any ordered system of social interaction. More than content itself,controlling them helps one control everything else. I am trying hard to avoid believing co…

The focus of this change is to improve the identification of content. This coupled with payment has been subject lots of fraud where users misled about the owner of a website.

google-payments-secure.via.net is not a google payment website despite the google in the domain name. The key part that signifies the ownership / identify of the person hosting the site is the END of the domain, the google.com part. That is the owner of the web property, not whatever appears before that.

Re: Chrome hides www and https:// in the address bar again

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post #12

If I have one webpage with different languages and want my visitors recognize it from url, what are the options? Previously I could have www.example.com/en/ and www.example.com/fr/ etc If subdomains are not possible there's no hope that visitors using Chrome would see it?

Subdomains in general still show, just not www. Also, in the case you mentioned, the subdomains are the same. The path still shows.
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