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Do you hate the Google's Chrome shortened address bar?
Just discovered: Click with right mouse button on the address bar and select "Always show full URLs".
- prepend 5y agoYes. I was on a webinar yesterday and the user was presenting their cool prez running from their browser. I was able to see the url, visit it and learn about their project without having to spend time asking for a link. The url is valuable information to me.
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- sunstone 5y agoYeah, who thought that was a good idea? I did the right click thing a few months ago.
- exelib 5y agoYeah, and it's very distracting if you want to copy a part from the url.
- noahmbarr 5y agoJust another reason why you need to “google” something first, instead of copy/pasting or typing url. Along with FLoC, a continued march towards Google’s interest, not your interests.
- ezekg 5y agoThe solution is pretty simple: stop using Google products. Firefox is a great browser and duck duck go works for 99% of my searches.
- siproprio 5y agoYes!
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- drowe859 5y agoOh my gosh thank you.
- Jeremy1026 5y agoSimilar in Safari, in Preferences -> Advanced you have to click a checkbox to show the full URL.
- dmhmr 5y agoThank you so much!!! This was an infuriating change by the Chrome team.
- kjjjjjjjjjjjjjj 5y agoI hate everything in Chrome. It is a campaign to collect your data. The browser is slow and bloated as well. Stop using it!
- redis_mlc 5y ago+1
- girishso 5y agoHow long before they remove the url bar completely?
- wingerlang 5y agoI can select "always show full URLs" but the only difference I can find is wether the https://www https://www is showing, or not. If that is all, then no, I don't hate it. Hadn't even noticed it was different.
- lsaferite 5y agoThere is a recent change that only shows the hostname portion. Very different than what you are describing.
- wingerlang 5y agoYeah in that case I think I will be a bit iffed by it.
- cpach 5y agoI wonder if the Chrome team is currently doing some kind of A/B testing with the address bar? I’m on version 90.0.4430.85 and I see the normal address bar (i.e. the URL minus protocol://).
- thujlife 5y agoHow does A/B testing not violate the geneva conventions on human experimentation?
- mrkramer 5y ago> "Always show full URLs" Show what? Https? They still don't include www the acronym and symbol of World Wide Web.
- unicornporn 5y agoI love that the grand masters of surveillance capitalism is messing up their browser. At this point I don't understand why any geek with some pride would chose Chrome over Firefox.
- bitecode 5y agoI did try moving over to Firefox a few months ago but the lack of custom keyword-based search engines was a deal-breaker for me, and I'm back with Chrome.
- unicornporn 5y agoWhat exactly are you missing? I think I'm doing what you're describing using FF. https://superuser.com/a/7336 https://superuser.com/a/7336
- stevenkkim 5y agoThank you so much! I've just been suffering though this change thinking "I guess that's just how it is now" not realizing there was a solution.
- nitwit005 5y agoEvery time they tweak the address bar, I end up confused what problem they think they're solving.
- halfjoking 5y agoYes - it’s why I switched to Microsoft Edge.
- kotaKat 5y agoAnother fun way the Chromium development team is thinking for the end users.
- Proven 5y agoDon't use Chrome, so no, not very much
- crazypython 5y agoYes.
- ktpsns 5y agoAs a web dev who cares about clean, short, precise and beautiful URLs, hiding the efforts of my work is frustrating.
- tomcam 5y agoReally annoying because URLs impart lots of meta information
- kleer001 5y agoYes. Just as I hate the bizarre truncated relative time tagging. "A month ago" , "15 minutes ago" , "An hour ago" ?! That's f-n useless. ISO 8601 or die! YYYY:MM:DD hh:mm:ss How hard is that? Just leave the time stamp alone, geeze.
- zzo38computer 5y agoI also dislike the truncated URLs (although I don't use Chrome), and I dislike that truncated relative time tagging too (HN should be corrected to avoid this; perhaps by using the HTML <TIME> command to specify the exact time, or a user setting or whatever). When saving a local copy or printing out a document, specifying the exact date/time is especially more useful.