Security News > 2020 > March > Chrome may bring back ‘www’ with option to show full URLs

Enough people must have griped about the loss of "Www" and "Https" in Chrome's address bar to make Google rethink it: Chromium developers are testing a new Omnibox context menu that would give users the option to "Always Show Full URLs.".

On 17 March, Chromium developers outlined the plan for users to opt-out of URL snippage in a post on the bug tracker titled "Implement Omnibox context menu option to always show full URLs".

The Omnibox context menu should provide an option that will prevent URL elisions for the entire Chrome profile.

Showing the full URL may detract from the parts of the URL that are more important to making a security decision on a webpage.

It can be enabled in that version by typing in chrome://flags/ and setting Context menu show full URLs.

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https://nakedsecurity.sophos.com/2020/03/30/chrome-may-bring-back-www-with-option-to-show-full-urls/