Chrome 69: “www.” subdomain missing from URL

Re:Chrome 69: “www.” subdomain missing from URL by CGamesPlay on Thursday September 06, 2018 @02:49PM (#17928543)

Lest anyone think that Chrome is being innovative here, this is Safari's default behavior for when the URL bar isn't focused. When you click on the URL bar, the subdomain, protocol, and path all appear.

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Re:Chrome 69: “www.” subdomain missing from URL by stronglikedan on Thursday September 06, 2018 @03:30PM (#17928905)

Which drives me crazy, because my users send me screenshots in support requests. Now I have to spend even more time explaining to them how to click/copy/paste the URL. It was a terrible UX choice when Safari did it, and it's a terrible UX choice now that Chrome has done it.

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Re:Chrome 69: “www.” subdomain missing from URL by qubitcoder on Thursday September 06, 2018 @06:55PM (#17930335)

Fortunately, it's trivial to toggle this setting in the Safari preferences--and then the full URL will appear by default.

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Re:Chrome 69: “www.” subdomain missing from URL by nimrod0 on Thursday September 06, 2018 @02:51PM (#17928568)

A much saner behavior is to hide the URL entirely until focused, not to show a secretly mangled version.

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Re:Chrome 69: “www.” subdomain missing from URL by cpeterso on Thursday September 06, 2018 @03:42PM (#17929001)

Safari shows only the domain name (minus "www."), so Google News is shown as "news.google.com" until you click to see the full URL "https://news.google.com/?hl=en-US&gl=US&ceid=US:en".

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