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Comment by w-ll | Hacker News Reader

The shenanigans Google been doing to the url bar is super hostile.

Trying to copy the domain of a url without the protocol just infuriates me.

Disable this setting in chrome by going to chrome://flags and switching #omnibox-context-menu-show-full-urls to enabled. Then right click the URL bar and select "alawys show full URLS"

I think the flag (but not the checkbox) will be enabled by default at some point... this option is the best thing to happen to the URL bar since they broke it by removing http:// and WontFix'ing the resulting complaints a decade ago.

Really, I couldn't care less about stuff getting pruned from the URL bar, as long as there's an easy and permanent way to show everything.

Turned this in a few weeks ago - so much better.

I think not using chrome at all is a better response then trying to use workarounds.

Isn't it just an extra click? Click one, it highlights the whole thing, click a second time and you see the full URL with the protocol.

Hm. There's room for a new good browser to pick up the beans and run with it now…

Try sending someone a link of a PDF you found using google.

Not defending that change, but when do you ever need to copy just the domain instead of the full URL?

The times that bit me the most is when I need to copy an IP address.

Always. Main reason I cut something is I want to paste the hostname into a terminal so it can be an argument of whois or dig or traceroute or whatever, in no case have I ever been glad of the scheme prefix.

It's a solution in search of a problem.

I've lost count of how many times I've done:

    $ ping http://whatever.com [furious line editing ensues]

But thankfully it's fixed now, with the "Always show full URLs" option.

Isn't more common to paste to a utility that uses the prefix like curl or wget? Or pasting into a chat? Besides all of those tools could just strip out the prefix, while there's no way to add the protocol to a domain name.

More information is strictly superior.

More information is better, so the URL shown in the browser should include the protocol. Consistent behavior is better, so copy/paste should only include text that is actually highlighted.

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