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Re:Google adds experimental setting to hide full URLs in Chr... by saurik on Sunday June 14, 2020 @06:12AM (#23516475)
Given that Firefox slowly adds all the things we hate about Chrome due to the argument "we need to compete for normal users", how much do you want to bet Firefox will hide the URL in a few months (and even remove the setting that lets you change it)? :(
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Re:Google adds experimental setting to hide full URLs in Chr... by amanzi on Sunday June 14, 2020 @06:56AM (#23516708)
Firefox is already doing this! I recently had to dive into the about:config to find a setting that was hiding part of the URL. Although I can no longer find the setting that I configured so perhaps this has been changed in a recent update?

Edit - found it: the setting "browser.urlbar.trimURLs" hides the "http://" protocol if it's used. I do a lot of local development and found it annoying that Firefox was hiding it.

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Re:Google adds experimental setting to hide full URLs in Chr... by JBiserkov on Sunday June 14, 2020 @07:35AM (#23516909)
Thanks for this! Turned it off. I guess I haven't noticed because my focus was always attracted to the padlock with a red line through it in front of the URL.
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Re:Google adds experimental setting to hide full URLs in Chr... by AsyncAwait on Sunday June 14, 2020 @09:15AM (#23517435)
Except in Chrome, you don't even get a flag.
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