{"id":1112,"date":"2020-07-01T13:01:43","date_gmt":"2020-07-01T11:01:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/smartstermedia.com\/?p=1112"},"modified":"2025-03-04T05:09:36","modified_gmt":"2025-03-04T04:09:36","slug":"google-resumes-its-attempt-to-hides-full-addresses-on-chrome-85","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/smartstermedia.com\/news\/google-resumes-its-attempt-to-hides-full-addresses-on-chrome-85\/","title":{"rendered":"Google Resumes Its Attempt to Hides Full Addresses on Chrome 85"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Over the years Google has tried to hide full URLs in Chrome\u2019s address bar, despite the public backlash that came after every attempt, Google is pressing on with new plans to hide all parts of web addresses except the domain name.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>To test this, you have to download and install the Canary channel from the&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/intl\/ja\/chrome\/canary\/\">official<\/a>&nbsp;Google&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/intl\/ja\/chrome\/canary\/\">website,<\/a>&nbsp;and type \u2018chrome:\/\/flags\/\u2019 in the address bar. The version of Canary channel is 85.0.4173.0 at the time of writing.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Next, enter \u2018Omnibox UI Hide Steady-State URL Path, Query, and Ref\u2019 in the search field, change the state of the function that came out from \u2018Default\u2019 to \u2018Enabled\u2019 and click \u2018Relaunch\u2019 And restart your browser.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/lh3.googleusercontent.com\/XWufqYEgwPMmBIHmuvetf6Tk-2uf6IAPyzIJTqdhJFLhjY-8CjiO7tHacN4YRZMTEluyiPtqBNXERZ9mOAKNGfCVuHhFCcszEV2Hc31w1Sy0l4p0cKeLPRbjTKTzF1sc-TxgvqPI\" alt=\"This image has an empty alt attribute; its file name is XWufqYEgwPMmBIHmuvetf6Tk-2uf6IAPyzIJTqdhJFLhjY-8CjiO7tHacN4YRZMTEluyiPtqBNXERZ9mOAKNGfCVuHhFCcszEV2Hc31w1Sy0l4p0cKeLPRbjTKTzF1sc-TxgvqPI\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>In addition, the developer of the browser <a href=\"https:\/\/ja.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Chromium\">Chromium<\/a> Livvie Lin said in a design document&nbsp;earlier this year &#8220;Showing the full URL may detract from the parts of the URL that are more important to making a security decision on a webpage&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The full URL is important and Chrome should instead opt for lighter colors, instead of hiding the path completely.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Source: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.androidpolice.com\/2020\/06\/12\/google-resumes-its-senseless-attack-on-the-url-bar-hides-full-addresses-on-chrome-canary\/\">androidpolice.com<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Over the years Google has tried to hide full URLs in Chrome\u2019s address bar, despite the public backlash that came after every attempt, Google is pressing on with new plans to hide all parts of web addresses except the domain name. To test this, you have to download and install the Canary channel from the&nbsp;official&nbsp;Google&nbsp;website,&nbsp;and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":1113,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1112","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/smartstermedia.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1112","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/smartstermedia.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/smartstermedia.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/smartstermedia.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/smartstermedia.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1112"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/smartstermedia.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1112\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1115,"href":"https:\/\/smartstermedia.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1112\/revisions\/1115"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/smartstermedia.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1113"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/smartstermedia.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1112"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/smartstermedia.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1112"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/smartstermedia.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1112"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}