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Microsoft adds a ‘properly named’ flag to show or hide WWW and HTTPS in Edge

With today's Canary release, Microsoft has added a new flag to Microsoft Edge that is designed to be used instead of the previous one when it comes to hiding or showing the https and www portions of URLs in the address bar.

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With a previous build, Edge Canary 86.0.579.0, Microsoft has reverted the removal of https and www from the address bar, and also added a flag to control it.

The flag Omnibox UI Hide Steady-State URL Subdomains Beyond Registrable Domain is actually a Chromium feature. It does not hide the mentioned elements in the address bar, and it must be used in conjunction with other flags.

Edge Show Hide WWW HTTPS Flag

Instead of it, Microsoft now uses a new flag, which is exclusive to Edge and is not available in Chromium, Chrome, and other projects.

Edge Show Hide HTTPS WWW New Flag

Named Omibox UI Hide Steady-State URL Scheme, it is not set (Disabled) by default, so Edge shows https and www by default. If you need to hide them, set the flag to Enabled. The default configuration suits most users' needs who were unhappy with this change.

Actual Edge Versions


Download Microsoft Edge

You can download pre-release Edge version for Insiders from here:

Download Microsoft Edge Insider Preview

The stable version of the browser is available on the following page:

Download Microsoft Edge Stable


Note: Microsoft has started delivering Microsoft Edge to users of Windows via Windows Update. The update is provisioned for users of Windows 10 version 1803 and above, and replaces the classic Edge app once installed. The browser, when delivered with KB4559309, makes it impossible to uninstall it from Settings. Check out the following workaround: Uninstall Microsoft Edge If Uninstall Button is Grayed Out.

Thanks to Leo for the heads up.

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Author: Sergey Tkachenko

Sergey Tkachenko is a software developer who started Winaero back in 2011. On this blog, Sergey is writing about everything connected to Microsoft, Windows and popular software. Follow him on Telegram, Twitter, and YouTube.

One thought on “Microsoft adds a ‘properly named’ flag to show or hide WWW and HTTPS in Edge”

  1. You can do this on Brave at

    brave://flags/#omnibox-context-menu-show-full-urls

    Then right-clicking on the omnibox shows an “Always show full URLs” setting. Available on both standard and beta versions (both built on Chromium 84).

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