Chrome 69 hiding `www.` and protocol [duplicate]

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Problem :

With the current stable Chrome version 69,

when I surf to https://www.google.com the browser only shows google.com in the URL field.

I don’t want Chrome to hide the protocol and I don’t want Chrome to hide the subdomain.

How can I change these settings?

Solution :

Taken from https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/google/chrome-69-removing-www-and-m-subdomains-from-the-browsers-address-bar/

Open the Chrome browser and enter
chrome://flags/#omnibox-ui-hide-steady-state-url-scheme-and-subdomains
into the address bar. Then press Enter.

Chrome will open a page that shows the “Omnibox UI Hide Steay-State
URL Scheme and Trivial Subdomains” setting. Change this settings to
Disabled.

@Google: For me this is a bug too. This “feature” is confusing and wrong, it should be removed.

www.domain.com, m.domain.com and domain.com are three completely different hostnames.

Update:

Only current working way is to install the Google extension to Report Suspicious sites: https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/suspicious-site-reporter/jknemblkbdhdcpllfgbfekkdciegfboi

It will automatically enable www and protocol in the addressbar.

Update 2021:

Google has listened to the community and added the option “View” -> “Always show full URLs” to Chrome.

Here is what’s needed to get the scheme (aka protocol) and ‘trivial’ subdomains to be shown on Mac OS 10.13.6 running Chrome 70.0.3538.67:

  • chrome://flags/#views-browser-windows set to enabled
  • chrome://flags/#omnibox-ui-hide-steady-state-url-scheme-and-subdomains set to disabled
  • chrome://flags/#upcoming-ui-features set to Default or disabled.

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