Google adds experimental setting to hide full URLs in Chrome 85 address bar

Re:Google adds experimental setting to hide full URLs in Chr... by toyg on Sunday June 14, 2020 @06:47AM (#23516655)

That’s too close for comfort to the Windows/Linux comparison.

This said, I honestly don’t understand what people mean when they say the experience is “superior” in Chrome. It’s a web browser. It browses. You get passwords saved and synchronised. Everything else is an extension. What’s so bad about FF...?

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Re:Google adds experimental setting to hide full URLs in Chr... by NateEag on Sunday June 14, 2020 @08:02AM (#23517062)

The last time I tried to use Firefox for a daily desktop driver, I found its dev tools far less discoverable and powerful. It may be that they're as good or better and just harder to learn. Related, if you're debugging hybrid mobile apps, Chrome is pretty much the only game in town on Android, IIRC.

It also felt noticeably slower at the time.

Finally, with Chrome's market share, good extensions that Just Work are more common there, in my experience. I use a whole host of plugins on desktop, and when I looked at switching back to FF last year, I did not find equivalents for everything.

I did go back to FF on mobile, because I do remember the nightmare of IE 6 and want to protect the web from total Google control. On mobile, I miss the dev tools and array of extensions less.

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Re:Google adds experimental setting to hide full URLs in Chr... by CyanBird on Sunday June 14, 2020 @07:02AM (#23516743)

I would love to get comments from Chrome users

I just could not live without firefox and being unable to share tabs/links from anywhere in my phone to my desktop and or laptop

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Re:Google adds experimental setting to hide full URLs in Chr... by kjakm on Sunday June 14, 2020 @08:13AM (#23517109)

As a Safari user it boggles my mind that Firefox's send to device feature is considered good at all. All my Safari tabs are automatically synced to my phone at all times with no intervention needed from me. It's one of the few things keeping me from switching to Firefox actually.

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Re:Google adds experimental setting to hide full URLs in Chr... by toyg on Sunday June 14, 2020 @11:49AM (#23518576)

> All my Safari tabs are automatically synced to my phone at all times

I hate the hell out of that. My phone is my phone, my laptop is my laptop, just leave them alone.

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Re:Google adds experimental setting to hide full URLs in Chr... by kjakm on Sunday June 14, 2020 @03:57PM (#23520813)

I guess I'm forgetting there are people with dozens of tabs open at a time that probably wouldn't like this. The Safari thing does keep them separate though from your mobile tabs until you open one.

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Re:Google adds experimental setting to hide full URLs in Chr... by fastball on Sunday June 14, 2020 @07:15AM (#23516809)

You can do that with Chrome if you are signed in.

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