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.
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.
Instead of it, Microsoft now uses a new flag, which is exclusive to Edge and is not available in Chromium, Chrome, and other projects.
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
- Stable Channel: 84.0.522.40
- Beta Channel: 84.0.522.39
- Dev Channel: 85.0.564.8
- Canary Channel: 86.0.580.0
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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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).