Porthos
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After installing Google Chrome 76, if you feel like something is missing from the address bar you would be correct. This is because Google has decided to once again to hide, or elide, the "www" subdomain and "https://" from the address.
When Chrome 69 was released in September 2018, Google decided to strip the "www" and "m" "trivial subdomains" from the URLs in the address bar. For example, when a user visited www.bleepingcomputer.com, the www would be stripped and displayed as bleepingcomputer.com instead.
These subdomains are classified as "trivial" because Google feels that it is not information that most people need to concern themselves with.
After a large outcry from users saying that www.bleepingcomputer.com and m.bleepingcomputer.com are not the same hostnames as www.bleepingcomputer.com, Google stopped hiding these subdomains.
Google, though, did state that on a later date they would once again hide the "www" subdomain, but would continue to the "m" subdomain.
https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/ne...hides-www-and-https-in-the-address-bar-again/
When Chrome 69 was released in September 2018, Google decided to strip the "www" and "m" "trivial subdomains" from the URLs in the address bar. For example, when a user visited www.bleepingcomputer.com, the www would be stripped and displayed as bleepingcomputer.com instead.
These subdomains are classified as "trivial" because Google feels that it is not information that most people need to concern themselves with.
After a large outcry from users saying that www.bleepingcomputer.com and m.bleepingcomputer.com are not the same hostnames as www.bleepingcomputer.com, Google stopped hiding these subdomains.
Google, though, did state that on a later date they would once again hide the "www" subdomain, but would continue to the "m" subdomain.
https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/ne...hides-www-and-https-in-the-address-bar-again/
