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 wizzwizz4 on Sunday June 14, 2020 @07:26AM (#23516867)

Before Edge came out, I always preferred IE11 over Chrome (on machines that only had those two installed), because IE11 kept the legacy "must compete with Netscape" features like decent contentEditable context menus. And websites that didn't work in IE11 generally weren't worth using anyway.

Now… well, IE11 doesn't even support ES6 properly, and good sites have started relying on that, and Edge is just evil Chrome – unless it's got Firefox installed, Chrome's your only option. But sites that use Chrome-only APIs aren't worth using anyway.

(Oh, wait, Zoom needs either Chrome or a malwarey desktop program.)

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Re:Google adds experimental setting to hide full URLs in Chr... by grey_earthling on Sunday June 14, 2020 @09:25AM (#23517485)

Zoom works in Firefox.

And there are alternatives to Zoom, e.g. Jitsi.

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Re:Google adds experimental setting to hide full URLs in Chr... by ekimekim on Sunday June 14, 2020 @10:25AM (#23517826)

> Zoom needs either Chrome or a malwarey desktop program

...and the malwarey desktop program is also Chrome.

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Re:Google adds experimental setting to hide full URLs in Chr... by wizzwizz4 on Tuesday June 16, 2020 @07:27PM (#23545604)

The backdoor part isn't Chrome, though, is it? (If it's a Node.js script bundled with yet another copy of V8, I'll scream.)

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