Chrome abandons 'simplified domain experiment' in omnibar

Re:Chrome abandons 'simplified domain experiment' in omnibar by kibwen on Thursday June 10, 2021 @08:59PM (#27468072)

I don't understand what this is referring to WRT Firefox. In Firefox I'm seeing the full URL right now, and have never not seen a full URL, and have never needed to configure anything. By "insanity" is this just referring to the way that Firefox renders the TLD and 2LD in black and the rest in gray? What about:config setting is this obliquely referencing?

EDIT: anyone care to explain the downvotes?

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Re:Chrome abandons 'simplified domain experiment' in omnibar by v3v3 on Thursday June 10, 2021 @09:07PM (#27468137)

Firefox hides the "http://" and only shows a crossed out padlock icon.

On secure sites, the full URL is displayed (including "https://").

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Re:Chrome abandons 'simplified domain experiment' in omnibar by kibwen on Thursday June 10, 2021 @09:14PM (#27468192)

I haven't noticed (I guess I don't visit http sites?), but that's quite different from the behavior the article is describing, where every component except the TLD and 2LD are completely absent.

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Re:Chrome abandons 'simplified domain experiment' in omnibar by rovr138 on Thursday June 10, 2021 @11:52PM (#27469100)

http://neverssl.com to try it

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Re:Chrome abandons 'simplified domain experiment' in omnibar by amanzi on Sunday June 13, 2021 @09:01AM (#27492220)

The Firefox changes came shortly after Chrome started mess with URLs and so it looked like Firefox was going to follow Chrome's lead on this. However, Firefox never really got further than hiding the "http://" protocol, and this can be changed by setting "browser.urlbar.trimURLs" to false.

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