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Re:Google adds experimental setting to hide full URLs in Chr... by ck2 on Sunday June 14, 2020 @05:47AM (#23516356)
there is a trick for at least chrome before 85, where if you install the google-made extension "suspicious site reporter" it will show the full url including protocol (which you can't even do with flags so it tampers with something internally which means they don't have to do this at all)
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Re:Google adds experimental setting to hide full URLs in Chr... by onion2k on Sunday June 14, 2020 @06:19AM (#23516510)
Asking a user to install "suspicious site reporter" in order to send a bug report is going to throw up a few problems.
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Re:Google adds experimental setting to hide full URLs in Chr... by londons_explore on Sunday June 14, 2020 @06:06AM (#23516438)
I highly doubt a non-default extension has extra permissions that aren't available to regular extensions...

Can anyone reproduce this?

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Re:Google adds experimental setting to hide full URLs in Chr... by marksomnian on Sunday June 14, 2020 @09:43AM (#23517583)
The extension ID is literally hard coded in the code of the scheme hiding code. https://source.chromium.org/chromium/chromium/src/+/master:c...
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Re:Google adds experimental setting to hide full URLs in Chr... by andrewprock on Sunday June 14, 2020 @10:31AM (#23517880)
How a proprietary extension can get preferential features illustrates that chromium is open source in name only.
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Re:Google adds experimental setting to hide full URLs in Chr... by shadowgovt on Sunday June 14, 2020 @11:38AM (#23518464)
Hardly. If you look at firefox's source, you will find several extensions that are hard-coded for special handling. This is not new.
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Re:Google adds experimental setting to hide full URLs in Chr... by andrewprock on Monday June 15, 2020 @11:49AM (#23528687)
True, but the distance between Firefox source and Firefox is config+compile.

You cannot compile Chrome. I've heard that Chromium can be compiled and run, but I've never actually seen it, or hear of anyone using that professionally.

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Re:Google adds experimental setting to hide full URLs in Chr... by shadowgovt on Monday June 15, 2020 @12:03PM (#23528858)
I'm not sure what your point is... You thought it was weird that an extension would get preferential treatment, and I pointed out that this is true for Firefox also.
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Re:Google adds experimental setting to hide full URLs in Chr... by andrewprock on Monday June 15, 2020 @12:10PM (#23528949)
My point is that you are correct.

There are other factors at play which mitigate the preferential treatment, but it's definitely there in Firefox as well.

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Re:Google adds experimental setting to hide full URLs in Chr... by gruez on Sunday June 14, 2020 @08:44AM (#23517271)
I looked into it several months ago and it looks like that extension is whitelisted to do it. If you try to repack the crx file and install it, the address bar doesn't get changed.
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