Google is planning to add a new feature to This Chrome users . featurewill allow users to configure the browserto display the full URLs for all sites they visit.
Currently, the ability to display full URLs can only be enabled in an experimental flag in Google Chrome Canary version 83.Mac , Windows, Linux, and Chrome OS users can access it via the Omnibox context menu.
Google does not usually display the protocol and the so-called trivial subdomains and special-case subdomains of URLs.
How to re-enable full URLs in Chrome Canary
Windows ,Mac, Linux, and Chrome OS users running Google Chrome Canary can configure their browsers to display full URLs for all sitesby using the omnibox-context-menu-show-full-urls experimental flag.
The newly added flag is designed to provide Google Chrome Canary users with an option in the omnibox context menu that prevents elements from being removed from the URL.
To do this, you need to follow these steps:
1. Go to chrome://flags/#omnibox-context-menu-show-full-urls.
2. Click the drop-down menu on the right side of the flag to select 'Enable'
3. Restart the web browser.
Then, you will be able to find an option in the menu that says: “Always show full URLs”, which will tell Chrome to display the entire URL, without stripping out any elements.
An early version of this option has been offered to some Google Chrome 80 users.
The “Show URLs” option allows full URLs to be enabled per page.
Since it is currently being tested in Google Chrome Canary 83.0, the new option will most likely appear after the stable version of Google Chrome is released.
The WWW and M subdomains along with the protocol portion (e.g. HTTP, HTTPS, or FTP) of the URL were originally removed from the Chrome address bar when Google Chrome 69 was released in September 2018.
Many users reacted, so Google changed this tactic. However, it hid these elements again in Chrome 76 on desktop and Android devices.
“The Chrome team values the simplicity, usability, and security of UI surfaces,” product manager Emily Schechter said at the time.
“To make URLs easier to read and understand, and to remove domain distractions, we will hide URL components that are not relevant to most Chrome users,” he added. “We plan to hide https and the special-case subdomain 'www' in the Chrome omnibox on desktop and on Android in M76.”.
Google used to allow users to enable full URLs in the main frame by enabling the temporary-unexpire-flags-m76 flag. However, this only lasted until the release of Google Chrome 79, where the flag was permanently removed.
The only way to see the full address of a site when using Chrome 79 or later is to double-click the address bar to edit the URL or install the Google Chrome extension Suspicious Site Reporter
