The Chrome team values the simplicity, usability, and security of UI surfaces. To make URLs easier to read and understand, and to remove distractions from the registrable domain, we will hide URL components that are irrelevant to most Chrome users. We plan to hide “https” scheme and special-case subdomain “www” in Chrome omnibox on desktop and
Android in M76.
In Sept 2018, we rolled out a change to hide special-case subdomains “www” and “m”. Per my above message on this thread, we rolled back these changes, and announced our intent to re-ship an adjusted version: we will hide “www” but not “m”. For several months, we’ve had this version enabled in our Canary, Dev and Beta channels and are confident that it is ready to be enabled in the Stable channel as well.
We've worked with other browser representatives to incorporate URL display guidance into the web URL standard (
URL Standard). The URL spec documents that browsers may simplify the URL by omitting irrelevant subdomains and schemes in security-sensitive surfaces like the omnibox.
We’ve also worked to build a Chrome extension (
New Chrome Protections from Deception) to help power users recognize suspicious sites and report them to Safe Browsing. Power users can use this extension to display the full URL with no scheme or subdomain hiding, and report suspicious sites to Safe Browsing if they choose. The full URL is also revealed by clicking twice in the URL bar on desktop, and once on mobile.
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