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🌕🕜 4 yr via NewsBot
Google Chrome Hides WWW and HTTPS:// In the Address Bar Again
https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/google/google-chrome-hides-www-and-https-in-the-address-bar-again/
» Comments [news.ycombinator.com]
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🌕🕧 4 yr via Texnut
"special-case subdomain “www”"
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ryb
🌖🕝 4 yr via Apero
@33MHz Kind of makes sense for Web browsers (of course it's www on the Web), but still… weird.
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🌖🕑 4 yr via enuts
@ryb Yeah, I get it. I still feel like it's overloading identity with URLs. It's a pretty technical thing. I think their default makes not doing something with "www" a security risk, but, everything's a security risk!
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🌕🕧 4 yr via Texnut
"we will hide URL components that are irrelevant to most Chrome users."
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🌕🕐 4 yr via Arachis
@33MHz in general, this trend of hiding things because “users might need to learn something” is the most terrible trend in security yet imo
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🌖🕑 4 yr via enuts
@Savaran Agreed. I'm OK with FF emphasizing the root domain. I'd be glad for browsers to really parse the URL out for users - go wild with it, why not? Different color for protocol, subdomain, domain, tld, port, path, query string... Why not?
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🌕🕐 4 yr via Arachis
@33MHz yeah for sure!
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🌖🕝 4 yr via Beta
@Savaran I know they've all spent a lot of time working on this problem.

This would make me happy. Would have to have color blind alts (hey, just make a little theme editor 😁).

Can I make an extension that does this, or is that all neutered?
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cookie jar (i)
🌕🕜 4 yr via Arachis
@33MHz that is slick looking
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🌖🕝 4 yr via Texnut
@Savaran Looks like I could do an extension that breaks up the parts in omnibox "suggestions", but coloring anything doesn't seem to be an option.
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