Submitted via IRC for TheMightyBuzzard
Google Chrome developers advised they would wait until Fall or Spring to disclose how they would "kill" URLs, but it appears the endeavor has already begun: users have found that the latest build, Chrome 69, hides the "WWW" and "M" subdomains in the address bar. Bleeping Computer has instructions on how to restore what Google insists is "trivial."
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday September 13 2018, @12:01PM (2 children)
Check out the tickets from users about removing http. Tickets just get closed.
https://bugs.chromium.org/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=41467 [chromium.org]
pkasting is an ass.
There was a comment about how this was removed as part of the 'removing unnecessary features' in Chrome. They won't even add one checkbox for this.
(Score: 1, Informative) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday September 13 2018, @12:47PM (1 child)
I'm not sure when, but at some point they did add a checkbox:
chrome://flags/#omnibox-ui-hide-steady-state-url-scheme-and-subdomains [chrome]
Disabling that flag shows both www./m. and http.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday September 13 2018, @02:46PM
Nice.
How long until this checkbox is removed in the name of minimalism? That's the excuse they gave last time.