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So Chrome is only showing the domain part now? Just like Safari has been for a long time? Personally I quite like it. From what I understand the main goal is t

by Tehnix 6y ago

So Chrome is only showing the domain part now? Just like Safari has been for a long time? Personally I quite like it. From what I understand the main goal is to make phishing attacks more clear to the user, since this is ultimately only a thing the end-user can protect against. Removing the noise definitely helps for that. Having had it like this in Safari for a long time, I must say I greatly prefer this over the older behavior---the only time I care about a full URL is when I select it to copy it.

sdan 6y ago
Safari has an option to include the full URL. As a developer, I need the full URL so I turn on the option. If Chrome by some miracle actually goes through with this, I'll try to see if I can get around it (because at the end of the day, everyone uses chrome and chrome dev tools are by far the best).
- masklinn 6y ago
  Other comments are saying there's a flag (chrome://flags) to show the full URL, at least for now.
- mosselman 6y ago
  > chrome dev tools are by far the best How are they better than those in Firefox? It looks like you did a thorough analysis.
  - hirako2000 6y ago
    Chrome dev tool used to be far better than any native alternative. Including Firefox, but Firefox has caught up. A tad too late as Firefox had, prior to chrome, the best native dev tool.
  - wetpaws 6y ago
    You must be a non-web developer, otherwise you would not have this question.
- chrisco255 6y ago
  Just use Brave. You can install Chrome dev tools on it.
chrisco255 6y ago
It's awful for navigation context. They could easily solve for the phishing problem by highlighting or underlining the domain name.
surfpel 6y ago
I agree. I spent a few minutes confused as to what everyone was so mad about. Surprised this is an issue for anyone. Unless you need to modify the URL often, but it has the hover behavior and if even safari has an option for it, I can't see google removing that option.

by Tehnix 6y ago

sdan 6y ago

Safari has an option to include the full URL. As a developer, I need the full URL so I turn on the option. If Chrome by some miracle actually goes through with this, I'll try to see if I can get around it (because at the end of the day, everyone uses chrome and chrome dev tools are by far the best).

masklinn 6y ago
Other comments are saying there's a flag (chrome://flags) to show the full URL, at least for now.
mosselman 6y ago
> chrome dev tools are by far the best How are they better than those in Firefox? It looks like you did a thorough analysis.
- hirako2000 6y ago
  Chrome dev tool used to be far better than any native alternative. Including Firefox, but Firefox has caught up. A tad too late as Firefox had, prior to chrome, the best native dev tool.
- wetpaws 6y ago
  You must be a non-web developer, otherwise you would not have this question.
chrisco255 6y ago
Just use Brave. You can install Chrome dev tools on it.

chrisco255 6y ago

It's awful for navigation context. They could easily solve for the phishing problem by highlighting or underlining the domain name.

surfpel 6y ago

I agree. I spent a few minutes confused as to what everyone was so mad about. Surprised this is an issue for anyone. Unless you need to modify the URL often, but it has the hover behavior and if even safari has an option for it, I can't see google removing that option.