How to Always Show Full URL Address in Google Chrome

The Omnibox of Google Chrome, i.e. the address bar used for displaying Google search results sometimes hides a few parts of the URL. It usually happens with Google Chrome’s 76.0 version. The main things that Chrome search box hide are https, http, and www. The team of Google developers says that users generally find these technical terms difficult to understand therefore, they started showing the actual domain name while hiding the protocol used for fetching.

Usually, Chrome hides query strings, scheme, trivial subdomains from the URL of a website. Knowing these terms from close, you need to understand that query strings are utilized for passing parameters such as ?search=apples. Then comes the trivial subdomains that provide www. address to the websites. The scheme of URL is the protocol that comes in use for accessing http or https. But, chrome hides these things and if you want these to be visible in your browser’s address bar, then check the following steps to see complete URLs.

The solution to Show Full URL Address in Google Chrome

1. Open the Google Chrome web browser, and write chrome://flags in the address bar and then tap on the Enter key.
2. Then, type Omnibox UI Hide to the search box to look for the new features that we need.
3. Disable the following three utilities (Modify the state of features to Disabled)

1st feature, “Omnibox UI Hide Steady-State URL Scheme”

And the second one is the “Omnibox UI Hide Steady-State URL Trivial Subdomains” feature that need to stop.