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Do you hate the Google's Chrome shortened address bar?

by exelib on 4/23/21, 8:11 AM with 28 comments

• by prepend on 4/23/21, 12:35 PM

  Yes.

  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.

• by noahmbarr on 4/23/21, 1:54 PM

  Just 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.

• by wingerlang on 4/23/21, 5:21 PM

  I can select "always show full URLs" but the only difference I can find is wether the https://www is showing, or not.

  If that is all, then no, I don't hate it. Hadn't even noticed it was different.

• by sunstone on 4/23/21, 1:02 PM

  Yeah, who thought that was a good idea? I did the right click thing a few months ago.

• by nitwit005 on 4/23/21, 10:34 PM

  Every time they tweak the address bar, I end up confused what problem they think they're solving.

• by stevenkkim on 4/23/21, 6:33 PM

  Thank 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.

• by Jeremy1026 on 4/23/21, 3:23 PM

  Similar in Safari, in Preferences -> Advanced you have to click a checkbox to show the full URL.

• by kotaKat on 4/24/21, 11:51 AM

  Another fun way the Chromium development team is thinking for the end users.

• by kleer001 on 4/25/21, 9:42 PM

  Yes.

  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.

• by dmhmr on 4/23/21, 3:34 PM

  Thank you so much!!! This was an infuriating change by the Chrome team.

• by drowe859 on 4/23/21, 3:11 PM

  Oh my gosh thank you.

• by girishso on 4/23/21, 4:27 PM

  How long before they remove the url bar completely?

• by ktpsns on 4/24/21, 6:13 PM

  As a web dev who cares about clean, short, precise and beautiful URLs, hiding the efforts of my work is frustrating.

• by siproprio on 4/23/21, 2:37 PM

  Yes!

• by tomcam on 4/24/21, 7:42 PM

  Really annoying because URLs impart lots of meta information

• by halfjoking on 4/24/21, 7:26 AM

  Yes - it’s why I switched to Microsoft Edge.

• by unicornporn on 4/23/21, 6:04 PM

  I 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.

• by crazypython on 4/24/21, 5:47 PM

  Yes.

• by mrkramer on 4/23/21, 5:56 PM

  > "Always show full URLs"

  Show what? Https? They still don't include www the acronym and symbol of World Wide Web.