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A couple of days ago I noticed that for all websites, chrome omits from the address bar the protocol and the subdomain if it is www.
My co-workers report that they are not seeing this. Chrome version is 67.0.3396.87.
For example, if I type into the address bar https://www.google.com
(without the quotes), Chrome immediately displays the chip "Secure" followed by google.com
. See attached screenshots.
I have looked in vain for Chrome settings that affect this, plus the chrome://flags
page and chrome://net-internals
page.
I did not do anything consciously to make this change.
Any ideas?
EDIT: Suggestion from MrWhite that Ominbox UI Hide Stead-State URL Scheme and Trivial Subdomains had become enabled:
good suggestion, except that the setting is still at “Default.” See screenshot:
However, as a shot in the dark, I am going to play with the setting to see what happens.
First I set it to “Disabled.” That restored the previous behavior of the address bar, which is to not to hide the protocol and “trivial subdomains.” Then I changed it back to “Default,” and it was hiding them again. One would suspect that somehow the default has been changed, except that co-workers are not reporting this issue.
Oh, well. I’ll just leave it as Disabled for now.
I would be ready to accept the answer from MrWhite, because it provides a workaround. Yet will leave it open for a bit longer, because it does not really answer why this behavior has changed, and why it has to be overridden.
EDIT 2: Chrome version is 67.0.3396.87.
1What version of Chrome are you using? – MrWhite – 7 years ago
Please provide what your version of Chrome is, and maybe even ask your coworkers what version they have. It could be that yours was updated, but theirs are not. – mbomb007 – 7 years ago
1Noticed that, while I already changed this setting to "disabled" before, after updating to 76.0.3809.100, they reset this to default value again. They're pushing this misfeature so aggressively. – kolen – 5 years ago
Does this answer your question? How do I show www. and https:// in Chrome 79?
– Mawg says reinstate Monica – 5 years ago