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I would have no trouble with hiding "https://" in the address bar, as long they show it for other protocols (including http). It might help move us to a world with https everywhere even faster.

I still prefer Firefox: protocol, subdomains and path are greyed out but still clearly legible. This way I can eyeball "on which site am I?" quickly (and read google-secure-payments.google.via.net as via.net for example) and still have access to the full URL in 0 clicks.

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It seems that Firefox stopped copying http:// (when I want to copy URL) which is very annoying to me.

I need the whole address when copying.

Firefox hides the http:// scheme in the address bar, but will include it if you copy the URL. You can test with http://example.com/ and https://example.com/.

Nice! Though it'd be good if they swapped the scenario where they hide the protocol to be `https` and make `http` the one that sticks out awkwardly.

At least for copying nothing should be hidden.

I mean they have the lock icon for https.

If you want it to stick out awkwardly I feel like they just need a opened lock in red icon.

I have the opposite complaint: when I highlight a portion of the url in chrome, it prepends the http:// anyway. If I have the whole thing selected it would make sense to prepend the http://

I can't reproduce what you say, it doesn't prepends http:// in my case. Are you on Windows?

Yes, on Windows. You do have to select the first part of the url, but I often just want the host and port, ie localhost:8080 instead of http://localhost:8080

This happens to me all the time in MacOS also. Drives me crazy.

This is so minor but it slows me down working every day. If I didn't select it, don't copy it. If I clicked in the center on a specific spot, drop the cursor right there instead of selecting a section.

It doesn’t make sense either way. If I select what is visible only as the domain name, why is some magic text automatically added in front?

Interesting. What OS and Firefox build are you on? Firefox always copies the full URI for me. (Windows, Firefox 69 - and I'm pretty sure I get the same behavior on my Linux machine at home, but I'm at work right now so can't confirm.)

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