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> 1. Reform the browser address bar. Safari does this right. Chrome, IMHO shamefully, does not. ... The address bar should show the domain name only, or the EV
by thomasahle 10y ago
> 1. Reform the browser address bar. Safari does this right. Chrome, IMHO shamefully, does not. ... The address bar should show the domain name only, or the EV identity when that's present,
Chrome on Android does this. And it's extremely annoying. Since mobile browsers (and desktop browsers with tabs) usually don't show the title of pages, the address bar is the only place to tell e.g. what Wikipedia page you're currently reading.
You are probably correct, that it's a win for security, but I wish it could be turned off.
- gcp 10y agoWe tried this in Firefox for Android and user outcry was so bad it had to be turned off almost immediately. There's some tricks now to make sure the domain is visible and highlighted, but IMHO not enough to be safe, especially with the address bar scrolling of screen on phones.
- mike_hearn 10y agoWikipedia pages have the title at the top of the page. In practice, the sort of users who complain about such things are in my experience the sort who also have dozens of tabs open, which smushes the title down to just a few characters. Heck even when there's space in the tab bar Chrome won't allocate more than a few cm of space on screen to showing the title. HTML titles are pretty much a dying thing anyway, so given the ongoing pain caused by phishing I wouldn't hesitate to pull the plug on them.
- thomasahle 10y agoOn mobile, scrolling to the top of a Wikipedia page can be 20 screens or more. After that it's a lot of working going back to where you were. Many news sites are similar.
- eridius 10y agoYou could just pop open the tab view, so you can see the page title.