In a Chrome bug post regarding this issue, product manager Emily Schechter stated that after testing for several months in the Canary, Dev, and Beta channels, they are going to start hiding 'https' and 'www' in the Chrome omnibox starting in version 76 on desktop and Android. With Chrome 76, Google has once again started to strip the 'www' subdomain and ' identifier from URLs shown in the address bar. Google, though, did state that on a later date they would once again hide the 'www' subdomain, but would continue to the 'm' subdomain. When Chrome 69 was released in September 2018, Google decided to strip the 'the These subdomains are classified as 'trivial' because Google feels that it is not information that most people need to concern themselves with.Īfter a large outcry from users saying that and m. are not the same hostnames as Google stopped hiding these subdomains. This is because Google has decided to once again to hide, or elide, the 'www' subdomain and ' from the address. After installing Google Chrome 76, if you feel like something is missing from the address bar you would be correct.

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