Google Achieves Its Goal of Erasing the WWW Subdomain From Chrome
With the release of Chrome 79, Google completes its goal of erasing www from the browser by no longer allowing Chrome users to automatically show the www trivial subdomain in the address bar.
When Chrome 76 was released, Google decided to no longer show the www "trivial subdomain" in the address bar when visiting a web site. This means, that if you are visiting www.bleepingcomputer.com, Chrome would only show bleepingcomputer.com in the address bar...
[...] According to a Google engineer, www is considered a trivial subdomain because "this isn't information that most users need to concern themselves with in most cases".
Many users, though, felt that this was a security issue, could be confusing for users, and is technically incorrect because www.domain.com is not always the same host as domain.com.
So is this a distinction without a difference or a real issue?
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday December 16 2019, @05:44PM (1 child)
Not even last week, I encountered a site where not including the www just didn't work. Was like the server wasn't there.
Caught me off guard when I wrote the link down based on what was in the address bar and sent it to a friend.
We spent a good couple minutes wondering why it didn't work until I realized that the www mattered for the site.
Really, mucking about with what's shown in the address bar to pretty it up is generally a bad idea.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday December 17 2019, @06:18AM
This is the answer. The end. Don't screw with the contents if the urlbar.