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

97 points by exelib ↗ HN
Just discovered: Click with right mouse button on the address bar and select "Always show full URLs".

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prepend
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.

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sunstone
Yeah, who thought that was a good idea? I did the right click thing a few months ago.
exelib
Yeah, and it's very distracting if you want to copy a part from the url.
noahmbarr
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.

ezekg
The solution is pretty simple: stop using Google products. Firefox is a great browser and duck duck go works for 99% of my searches.
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Jeremy1026
Similar in Safari, in Preferences -> Advanced you have to click a checkbox to show the full URL.
dmhmr
Thank you so much!!! This was an infuriating change by the Chrome team.
[dead] kjjjjjjjjjjjjjj
I hate everything in Chrome. It is a campaign to collect your data. The browser is slow and bloated as well. Stop using it!
girishso
How long before they remove the url bar completely?
wingerlang
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.

lsaferite
There is a recent change that only shows the hostname portion. Very different than what you are describing.
wingerlang
Yeah in that case I think I will be a bit iffed by it.
cpach
I 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
How does A/B testing not violate the geneva conventions on human experimentation?
mrkramer
> "Always show full URLs"

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

unicornporn
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.
bitecode
I 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.
stevenkkim
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.
nitwit005
Every time they tweak the address bar, I end up confused what problem they think they're solving.
halfjoking
Yes - it’s why I switched to Microsoft Edge.
kotaKat
Another fun way the Chromium development team is thinking for the end users.
[dead] Proven
Don't use Chrome, so no, not very much
ktpsns
As a web dev who cares about clean, short, precise and beautiful URLs, hiding the efforts of my work is frustrating.
tomcam
Really annoying because URLs impart lots of meta information
kleer001
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.

zzo38computer
I 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.