[Tip] Always Show Full URLs (Including HTTPS and WWW) in Google Chrome Address bar

This article will help you in restoring HTTPS and WWW terms for website URLs in Google Chrome address bar. You can force Google Chrome to always show full URLs including HTTPS and WWW prefixes for all websites in its address bar as shown in following screenshot:

Since a few versions, Google Chrome started hiding HTTP, HTTPS and WWW terms for all websites URLs in the address bar. For example when you open our website in Google Chrome, it shows only askvg.com in the address bar where as the full URL of our website is https://www.askvg.com/. It happens with all websites and Google Chrome displays the domain name only in address bar.

Many users didn’t like this change. Initially Google Chrome team provided a hidden preference/flag to restore the HTTPS and WWW terms for websites URLs which we shared in following article:

[Tip] Restore HTTPS and WWW in Website URLs in Google Chrome Address bar

But in Google Chrome 79 and later versions, the preference/flag was removed and stopped working.

Then we shared another working method to bring back HTTPS and WWW terms for websites URLs in Google Chrome which included installing an extension called “Suspicious Site Reporter” officially released by Google.

[Tip] New Working Method to Get HTTPS and WWW Back for URLs in Google Chrome Address bar

Now here is a good news. Google Chrome developer team has added a new preference/flag in Google Chrome newer versions which can be turned on to restore full URLs for all websites in address bar.

So there is no need to install any extension in Chrome. You can get full URLs including HTTPS and WWW terms for all websites in Google Chrome address bar by simply enabling a built-in preference.

Following steps will help you in showing full URLs for websites in Google Chrome address bar:

1. Open Google Chrome web browser and type chrome://flags/ in addressbar and press Enter. It’ll open the advanced configuration page.

2. Now type full url in the “Search flags” box.

It’ll directly go to following option:

3. To restore full websites URLs in address bar, select Enabled for Context menu show full URLs option from the drop-down box.

4. Google Chrome will ask you to restart the browser. Click on “Relaunch now” button to restart Google Chrome.

5. After relaunching Google Chrome, right-click on address bar and select “Always show full URLs” option from context menu.

That’s it. Now open any website and Google Chrome will show full website URL in the address bar.

PS: If you decide to restore default behavior i.e. hide full website URL in address bar, right-click on address bar again and uncheck i.e. deselect “Always show full URLs” option from context menu. You can also select “Default” option from the drop-down box for the above mentioned preference in chrome://flags/ page and restart the browser.

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