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The shenanigans Google been doing to the url bar is super hostile. Trying to copy the domain of a url without the protocol just infuriates me.
by w-ll 6y ago
The shenanigans Google been doing to the url bar is super hostile.
Trying to copy the domain of a url without the protocol just infuriates me.
- marvindanig 6y agoHm. There's room for a new good browser to pick up the beans and run with it now…
- trishmapow2 6y agoNot defending that change, but when do you ever need to copy just the domain instead of the full URL?
- nemothekid 6y agoThe times that bit me the most is when I need to copy an IP address.
- jeffbee 6y agoAlways. Main reason I cut something is I want to paste the hostname into a terminal so it can be an argument of whois or dig or traceroute or whatever, in no case have I ever been glad of the scheme prefix.
- waheoo 6y agoIt's a solution in search of a problem.
- p1mrx 6y agoI've lost count of how many times I've done: $ ping http://whatever.com [furious line editing ensues] But thankfully it's fixed now, with the "Always show full URLs" option.
- smabie 6y agoIsn't more common to paste to a utility that uses the prefix like curl or wget? Or pasting into a chat? Besides all of those tools could just strip out the prefix, while there's no way to add the protocol to a domain name. More information is strictly superior.
- MereInterest 6y agoMore information is better, so the URL shown in the browser should include the protocol. Consistent behavior is better, so copy/paste should only include text that is actually highlighted.
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- sodascripts 6y agoDisable this setting in chrome by going to chrome://flags and switching #omnibox-context-menu-show-full-urls to enabled. Then right click the URL bar and select "alawys show full URLS"
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- p1mrx 6y agoI think the flag (but not the checkbox) will be enabled by default at some point... this option is the best thing to happen to the URL bar since they broke it by removing http:// http:// and WontFix'ing the resulting complaints a decade ago. Really, I couldn't care less about stuff getting pruned from the URL bar, as long as there's an easy and permanent way to show everything.
- billyt555 6y agoTurned this in a few weeks ago - so much better.
- csunbird 6y agoI think not using chrome at all is a better response then trying to use workarounds.
- jacquesm 6y agoTry sending someone a link of a PDF you found using google.
- ehsankia 6y agoIsn't it just an extra click? Click one, it highlights the whole thing, click a second time and you see the full URL with the protocol.