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The title is misleading and people don't read the article. Chrome is not hiding the bar address, it is only showing the domain in normal times, and showing the

by polote 6y ago

The title is misleading and people don't read the article. Chrome is not hiding the bar address, it is only showing the domain in normal times, and showing the full url when you hover the bar Personally I find it better for non technical people, because they can focus on the domain only. For tech people you have the option to keep the full url visible at all time, which fixes the issue. As for people complaining about AMP, this is something different, which has nothing to do with displaying only the domain, but instead "showing the real domain when you are on a google AMP page"

lowlevel 6y ago
Sounds about right... I am still cheesed that they're treating the address bar like where you search. For me, if the address bar does happen to go away, so does chrome.
xemdetia 6y ago
> Personally I find it better for non technical people, because they can focus on the domain only. For tech people you have the option to keep the full url visible at all time, which fixes the issue. I think a large part of my repulsion to this change is mostly because Chrome has a history of removing options constantly. A weird default with a setting to get to more expected behaviour is fine, but I have no faith in them to not remove the full url visible at all time option at this point.
abrowne 6y ago
I already have the "Always show full URLs", so you know what I prefer, but isn't this the same or similar to Safari's default behavior for a while? I don't hear anyone still complaining about that.
sschueller 6y ago
Sorry but if you can't teach non technical users new things they shouldn't be 100 meters near a computer. It will result in even more technical dept and people with over confidence thinking that they know what they are doing. We don't need to idiot proof the world. We need to educate the idiots.
- tbodt 6y ago
  Unfortunately this doesn't scale to a billion idiots

by polote 6y ago

lowlevel 6y ago

Sounds about right... I am still cheesed that they're treating the address bar like where you search. For me, if the address bar does happen to go away, so does chrome.

xemdetia 6y ago

> Personally I find it better for non technical people, because they can focus on the domain only. For tech people you have the option to keep the full url visible at all time, which fixes the issue. I think a large part of my repulsion to this change is mostly because Chrome has a history of removing options constantly. A weird default with a setting to get to more expected behaviour is fine, but I have no faith in them to not remove the full url visible at all time option at this point.

abrowne 6y ago

I already have the "Always show full URLs", so you know what I prefer, but isn't this the same or similar to Safari's default behavior for a while? I don't hear anyone still complaining about that.

sschueller 6y ago

Sorry but if you can't teach non technical users new things they shouldn't be 100 meters near a computer. It will result in even more technical dept and people with over confidence thinking that they know what they are doing. We don't need to idiot proof the world. We need to educate the idiots.

tbodt 6y ago
Unfortunately this doesn't scale to a billion idiots