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

Re:Chrome hides www and https:// in the address bar again by gvx on Tuesday August 06, 2019 @02:51PM (#20628252)

I would have no trouble with hiding "https://" in the address bar, as long they show it for other protocols (including http). It might help move us to a world with https everywhere even faster.

I still prefer Firefox: protocol, subdomains and path are greyed out but still clearly legible. This way I can eyeball "on which site am I?" quickly (and read google-secure-payments.google.via.net as via.net for example) and still have access to the full URL in 0 clicks.

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Re:Chrome hides www and https:// in the address bar again by acqq on Tuesday August 06, 2019 @03:30PM (#20628629)

It seems that Firefox stopped copying http:// (when I want to copy URL) which is very annoying to me.

I need the whole address when copying.

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Re:Chrome hides www and https:// in the address bar again by csours on Tuesday August 06, 2019 @04:03PM (#20628963)

I have the opposite complaint: when I highlight a portion of the url in chrome, it prepends the http:// anyway. If I have the whole thing selected it would make sense to prepend the http://

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Re:Chrome hides www and https:// in the address bar again by dwild on Tuesday August 06, 2019 @05:07PM (#20629642)

I can't reproduce what you say, it doesn't prepends http:// in my case. Are you on Windows?

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Re:Chrome hides www and https:// in the address bar again by csours on Tuesday August 06, 2019 @08:05PM (#20630876)

Yes, on Windows. You do have to select the first part of the url, but I often just want the host and port, ie localhost:8080 instead of http://localhost:8080

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Re:Chrome hides www and https:// in the address bar again by snlnspc on Wednesday August 07, 2019 @07:38AM (#20633744)

This is so minor but it slows me down working every day. If I didn't select it, don't copy it. If I clicked in the center on a specific spot, drop the cursor right there instead of selecting a section.

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Re:Chrome hides www and https:// in the address bar again by tazard on Tuesday August 06, 2019 @08:42PM (#20631042)

This happens to me all the time in MacOS also. Drives me crazy.

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Re:Chrome hides www and https:// in the address bar again by Aeolun on Tuesday August 06, 2019 @08:40PM (#20631037)

It doesn’t make sense either way. If I select what is visible only as the domain name, why is some magic text automatically added in front?

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Re:Chrome hides www and https:// in the address bar again by cpeterso on Tuesday August 06, 2019 @04:01PM (#20628936)

Firefox hides the http:// scheme in the address bar, but will include it if you copy the URL. You can test with http://example.com/ and https://example.com/.

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Re:Chrome hides www and https:// in the address bar again by munk-a on Tuesday August 06, 2019 @06:13PM (#20630202)

Nice! Though it'd be good if they swapped the scenario where they hide the protocol to be `https` and make `http` the one that sticks out awkwardly.

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Re:Chrome hides www and https:// in the address bar again by acqq on Tuesday August 06, 2019 @06:18PM (#20630242)

At least for copying nothing should be hidden.

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Re:Chrome hides www and https:// in the address bar again by anthony_doan on Wednesday August 07, 2019 @04:04AM (#20632785)

I mean they have the lock icon for https.

If you want it to stick out awkwardly I feel like they just need a opened lock in red icon.

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Re:Chrome hides www and https:// in the address bar again by raptorfactor on Tuesday August 06, 2019 @09:56PM (#20631386)

Interesting. What OS and Firefox build are you on? Firefox always copies the full URI for me. (Windows, Firefox 69 - and I'm pretty sure I get the same behavior on my Linux machine at home, but I'm at work right now so can't confirm.)

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