Google adds experimental setting to hide full URLs in Chrome 85 address bar
Another phrase I live by: "the road to Hell is paved with good intentions."<p>There will be some VP of Product or Engineering buried deep in the bureaucracy who is pushing this, deciding with no evidence (or, worse, lots of evidence to the contrary; believe me this happens) that it is the "users who are wrong" [1].<p>It now takes something like 4 taps to get to the point where I can correct or otherwise edit the URL in my mobile browser (Safari) as I have to go through different layers where someone, somewhere has decided I can't possibly mean to edit the URL so I must be wanting to select the entire thing.<p>I'm sure this same "it's the users who are wrong" from a handful of key stakeholders that is pushing AMP. And for something that supposedly improves the mobile experience, it doesn't fit on my iPhone 11 screen and <i>it's also disabled zoom</i>. This is probably because I've changed the default zoom, something that gives me no end of problems but I can't control how bad my eyesight is and I don't need a company telling me I'm wrong for wanting to zoom. <i></i>There is never an excuse to disable zoom on a browser and browser makers should remove the ability for sites to do this, period.<i></i><p>I used to love the simplicity and features of Chrome. I once relied a great deal on Chrome Sync. For years I've used a password manager so a lot of the need for that has gone away. Sometimes it's nice to be able to open a page I have open on another device but I can also live without this.<p>I'm tired of this anti-Web and anti-accessibility SJW nonsense to the point that yeah, I'm ready to ditch Chrome.<p>[1]: <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HMqZ2PPOLik" rel="nofollow">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HMqZ2PPOLik</a>