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

  • 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.

  • 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.

  • 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.

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

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

  • 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.

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

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

  • 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.

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

  • Oh my gosh thank you.

  • How long before they remove the url bar completely?

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

  • Yes!

  • Really annoying because URLs impart lots of meta information

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

  • 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.

  • Yes.

  • I hate everything in Chrome. It is a campaign to collect your data. The browser is slow and bloated as well. Stop using it!

  • Don't use Chrome, so no, not very much

  • +1

  • > "Always show full URLs"

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