Starting in Chrome 69, the browser features significant changes to the user interface. These include a 'Material Design Refresh' theme with rounded tabs, the removal of the 'Secure' text badge for HTTPS web sites replaced by a Lock icon, and a reworked new tab page. Also, the browser hides the protocol name (HTTP/HTTPS) and the WWW prefix from the URL when the address bar is not focused. If you are unhappy about this behavior, here's how to disable it.
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Using a hidden flag, you can restore the classic address bar, so it won't hide WWW and HTTP portions of the URL. Let's see how it can be done.
To change New Tab button position in Google Chrome, do the following.
- Open the Google Chrome browser and type the following text into the address bar:
chrome://flags/#omnibox-ui-hide-steady-state-url-scheme-and-subdomains
This will open the flags page directly with the relevant setting.
- Set the option named Omnibox UI Hide Steady-State URL Scheme and Trivial Subdomains. Set it to Disabled.
- Restart Google Chrome by closing it manually or you can also use the Relaunch button which will appear at the very bottom of the page.
- The classic look of the address bar is now restored.
See the following screenshots.
Before:
After:
That's it.
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OMG i need that thank you!
It looks like the newest update changed the flag name (Chrome 76.x). It is now:
#omnibox-ui-hide-steady-state-url-scheme
Great! Tvm!
Broken again! The flag in your article is gone from the latest version of Chrome, and now the flag suggested above by Craig is also gone.
So now it seems there *no* flag to fix this! Might you know of another flag?
If not, this thread someone suggests using the Chrome extension called Suspicious Site Reporter…
https://support.google.com/chrome/thread/12174219?hl=en
#omnibox-ui-hide-steady-state-url-scheme
F U ! Google!
You are rigging the product for the ones who needs to work and not just watch netflix and consume all day long
F.U. Google indeed.