“We plan to hide ‘https’ scheme and subdomain ‘www’ in Chrome omnibox in M76”

Re:“We plan to hide ‘https’ scheme and subdomain ‘www’ in Ch... by Avamander on Wednesday July 31, 2019 @07:19AM (#20573369)

So the problem is theirs.

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Re:“We plan to hide ‘https’ scheme and subdomain ‘www’ in Ch... by idbehold on Wednesday July 31, 2019 @08:36AM (#20573891)

Yes, as in Google's.

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Re:“We plan to hide ‘https’ scheme and subdomain ‘www’ in Ch... by Avamander on Wednesday July 31, 2019 @08:54AM (#20574004)

Webserver misconfigurations are hosts' problems.

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Re:“We plan to hide ‘https’ scheme and subdomain ‘www’ in Ch... by darkarmani on Wednesday July 31, 2019 @10:17AM (#20574597)

But now you cannot distinguish between the 2 URLs. They look the same in the URL field but one is broken.

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Re:“We plan to hide ‘https’ scheme and subdomain ‘www’ in Ch... by Avamander on Wednesday July 31, 2019 @11:38AM (#20575280)

The website host can absolutely distinguish between the two (two clicks on title bar). I guess this change has another upside of forcing website hosts to have working web server configurations

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