I don't know what Windows version you're running, but on the Windows 8 partition on my laptop, it shows the full path with prettified separators, showing the pl

I don't know what Windows version you're running, but on the Windows 8 partition on my laptop, it shows the full path with prettified separators, showing the plaintext when you select the path. And that same way of doing things would work quite well for a web browser, IMHO. There are many annoyances I have with Windows, and Windows 8 specifically. That is not one of them.