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At chrome://flags there is one called #omnibox-context-menu-show-full-urls, which I have turned on.

This enables you to right click on the address bar, and turn on the option "Always show full URLs". It will always shows the full URL including the protocol, but I suspect they will remove this flag at some point.

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I don't think they will remove it soon, since it was just added¹ after a lot of complaints about the default behavior².

Now how does this new flag interact? Has anyone enabled both to see?

1: https://bugs.chromium.org/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=106157...

2: https://bugs.chromium.org/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=883038...

A heads up for those with lots of tabs open: This requires a browser restart, and setting it once seems to set it for all profiles.

If you happen to close your browser and lose your tabs, use the reopen closed tab menu option, it'll bring all the closed tabs (even if multiple tabs).

Even safer is to use an extension like Session Buddy, to explicitly save tabs and windows, including exporting to files.

I can't find this option on Chrome on Linux. I had to get an extension to show the full URL, but it only works for 'https://' URLs, not for 'http://'.

This drives me crazy when debugging. Whenever I copy-paste IP addresses from the browser address bar into my console, I have to manually delete the `http://` at the front. I work on a P2P project so this is an extremely common situation for me.

Are you running version 83 or later? I think they introduced the flag in that one.

Another solution for Windows and macOS users (no Linux sadly) is to use Edge Chromium, which does it by default, and you prefer to donate your data to Microsoft rather than Google like me :)

Oh wow, http:// and https:// are back! I've been waiting years for that option.

Thanks. I enabled that flag last week and thought it didn't work. I didn't know there was a second step. Much better now.

Wow, thank you so much! My nervous system already feels better with this working.

Seriously, I keep looking at the address bar to make sure the URL is still there and I'm not dreaming.

Absolutely true, but well-meaning advice like "just use an adblocker" and "why not use a VPN" somehow doesn't quite cut it for me. Defaults matter.

Yes they always remove such flags later, does not matter if it's there right now.

This is exactly what I'm afraid of. there used to be chrome://flags/#omnibox-ui-hide-steady-state-url-scheme-and-subdomains (when I google how to make chrome show the full url bar, this is the recommended answer) but it's been gone entirely for several Chrome versions. I even toggled a flag to undo flag deprecations in Chrome 78 to get this back but that didn't work very long - I think this flag has been totally dead since Chrome 80ish.

I personally don't care much what the default is for the normal user, but I want to be able to have my full urls.

Which is ridiculous, because there’s thousands of these flags for things they don’t have an agenda to see gone.

In fairness, the OP is about another such flag, so the same argument would apply to that one.

> At chrome://flags ...

Is there also a #upgrade-to-firefox-immediately flag ?

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