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Re:Chrome 69: “www.” subdomain missing from URL by keeganjw on Thursday September 06, 2018 @02:20PM (#17928246)
Thanks! This worked great for me and it brought back the https:// part as well.
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Re:Chrome 69: “www.” subdomain missing from URL by pishpash on Thursday September 06, 2018 @02:31PM (#17928352)
Until a few releases down the line and it is decided for you that the flag should be removed.
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Re:Chrome 69: “www.” subdomain missing from URL by rocky1138 on Thursday September 06, 2018 @03:03PM (#17928689)
This is the problem. Better to just switch to Firefox now and be done with it. Hopefully it'll send a message.
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Re:Chrome 69: “www.” subdomain missing from URL by mindcrime on Thursday September 06, 2018 @04:47PM (#17929423)
Until Firefox leadership decide to make the same change "because that's what Chrome does". Sadly, over the history of Firefox (and before that, Mozilla/Seamonkey) the leadership there has always been WAY too obsessed with following IE and/or Chrome rather than just building the best browser and taking some chances.

Seriously, trawl through Bugzilla sometime and look how many bugs are closed with the the justification being some variation of "That's how IE does it" or "IE doesn't support that", etc. And then substitute "Chrome" for "IE" later in history once Chrome took over the universe.

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Re:Chrome 69: “www.” subdomain missing from URL by int_19h on Thursday September 06, 2018 @05:29PM (#17929720)
Luckily we still have Vivaldi, Otter, Falkon etc.
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