Recently, we reported that Google Chrome 76 stable version of the release, the user if installed, not difficult to find a little something in the address bar, "www" subdomain and "https: //" is hidden. According to reports, early in September 2018 released Chrome 69, Google will hide the "www" and "m" "irrelevant subdomain" from the URL in the address bar. For example, when a user accesses www.oschina.net when, WWW will be hidden and shown as oschina.net.
These sub-domains are considered trivial (does not matter), because the information is not most of these people to follow Google said. But at the time, because users complained, they protested that "www" is valuable and critical information, Google will give up after this change. Google said at the time, in future releases, they could no longer hide "www" subdomain, including the "m" subdomain.
In this version of Chrome 76, Google once again began to hide the "www" subdomain URL from the address bar and the "https: //" identifier.
Emily Schechter Chrome product manager said that after Canary, Dev and Beta test a few months, they will begin to hide "https" and "www" from the 76th edition to start the desktop and Android's.
Chrome team emphasis on simplicity UI surface, availability and security. In order to make the URL easier to read and understand, and to eliminate the interference domain registration, we will hide the URL content and most Chrome users independent. We plan to hide http and www in the desktop version of Chrome and Android M76 in the address bar.
Scheckhter made a statement on the new version:
Now, when a user browses the site, "https: //" and the host name "www" part is deleted in the address bar, only the field is displayed, as shown below:
Of course, if you still want to see the complete host name for the desktop version, just click in the address bar twice, while mobile version of the need to click once.
For this change, there are still many users dissatisfied, here are some user feedback:
For we do not want to hide the "www" or "https: //" users, here are two options.
Method 1: Disable
To disable hidden from the url, you can perform the following steps:
- Open the Chrome browser and in the address bar, type chrome: // flags / # omnibox-ui-hide-steady-state-url-scheme-and-subdomains, and then press Enter
- Chrome opens a page that displays "Omnibox UI Hide Steay-State URL Scheme and Trivial Subdomains" setting, change this setting to disable
- Then the browser will display a prompt, you need to restart your browser for the settings to take effect, click "Restart Now" button, the browser will reboot (restart the browser once, www and https: // address will be displayed again column)
Method 2 : Install the suspicious site reports (Suspicious Site Reporter) Extended
According to Scheckhter said, Chrome users can install a Suspicious Site Reporter extensions, Chrome will stop hiding www and https.
Source: BleepingComputer