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The new experience: After the page loads, Chrome only shows the domain name.
Ron Amadeo
The options for this feature are in chrome://flags. You can show the URL on hover, and I don’t think the bottom flag does anything yet.
Ron Amadeo
Chrome is ending its war on address bar URLs — at least for now. About a year ago, Chrome started experimenting with stripping the URL displayed in the address bar to just the domain name, so instead of something like “https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2020/06/google-is-messing-using-the- address-bar-again-new -perience-hides-url-path/”, the address bar will only show ‘arstechnica.com’, and you will have no idea where you are in the site directory.
Android Police spotted a post on the Chromium debugger announcing that Google is killing the idea. In June 2020, when the experiment began, Google engineer Emily Stark explained that the company was testing a simplified view of the URL “to understand whether it helps users identify malicious sites more accurately.” A year later, Stark has now written that the “simplified scope experiment” will be removed from the code base, saying, “This experiment did not port relevant security metrics, so we won’t launch it. :(“
Apple’s Safari browser also hides URLs like these.
The Chrome team isn’t afraid to blow up existing web standards and has publicly announced that it wants to kill the URL — but hasn’t figured out how to do it yet. This was just the latest of the many crazy experiments, so don’t be surprised if Google comes up for your URLs again.
Today, Chrome only hides “https://” at the beginning of a URL, but you can opt out of that on desktops by right-clicking on the address bar and selecting “Always show full URLs”.
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