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 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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