Chrome Users will Soon Have the Option to Show Full URL in Address Bar

Google Chrome is one of themost popular browsersout there, and even though I’veswitched to Chromium-based Edgeever since it first came out, it’s no secret that Chrome remains, for the most part, the de-facto standard for web browsing.

If you’re a Chrome user you must be aware that the browser doesn’t display the complete URL in the address bar. It strips the URL of the ‘www’ and the ‘http/https’ parts. This may be for aesthetics, but it’s something that apparently a lot of people were not happy with. I say that, because in the latest Chrome Canary build, Google has given an experimental feature-flag that allows users to display the complete URL in the address bar of the browser.

As you can see in the image above, the URL for Beebom now shows ‘https’ as well. Like I said earlier, the feature is currently being tested in Chrome Canary, but it should make its way to the Stable release for Chrome soon, so if this is something that has always bugged you, your days of woe are about to come to an end.

Meanwhile, if you can’t wait to check the feature out, here’s how you can enable it in Chrome Canary:

Akshay Gangwar

Greetings, tech titans and fellow literary time-travelers! I’m Akshay, your tech-whisperer and Harry Potter’s number one stalker – seriously, don’t ask me how many times I’ve read those books; it’s borderline unhealthy.

Working in the tech journalism industry since 2016, I have 7 years of experience covering everything from technology news, to well-researched resource articles. Now the Content Strategist at Beebom, I often pen down op-eds for our website, sharing expert commentary on the latest in technology, AI, and electric cars.

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