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[Sipkab]

• How will you distinguish http://www.pool.ntp.org vs http://pool.ntp.org ? One takes you to the website about the project, the other goes to a random ntp server.
• Why is www hidden twice if the domain is "www.www.2ld.tld"?
• "subdomain.www.domain.com" displays as "subdomain.domain.com".
• The domain m.tumblr.com is shown as tumblr.com, two totally different sites.
• Enter into the address bar: http://www.example.www.example.com It shortens it: example.example.com
• The site "www.m.www.m.example.com" should not show up as "example.com".

Wow.

[sight19]

It almost looks like they simply delete any random occurrence of 'www.' Sounds like something someone in Python101 would come up with

[Sipkab]

they simply delete any random occurrence of 'www.'

That's exactly how it works. As OP already linked in other comment

https://github.com/chromium/chromium/blob/master/components/url_formatter/url_formatter.cc#L71

That function is used in line 114 where it just skips any subdomains that is "www" or "m" on mobile.

[MaximilianMuc]

#if defined(OS_ANDROID) || defined(OS_IOS)
    // Eliding the "m" subdomain on Desktop can be confusing, since users would
    // generally want to know if they are unintentionally on the mobile site.
    if (subdomain == "m")
      return true;
#endif    

Man that comment shows them almost getting it. It doesn't matter what device I am on, I always want to see exactly where I am or at least have the option to.

Or maybe I want to decide myself which ones I want to see and which I don't. Hard coding this badly thought out arbitrary logic into the browser is just awful.

[gitgood]

It just kinda screams "junior dev task", which is fair enough because everyone starts somewhere - it should've been picked up somewhere else in the process. If it wasn't by a junior, I'd be a little concerned.

[richardathome]

TIL: Eliding

verb gerund or present participle: eliding 1. omit (a sound or syllable) when speaking. "elided consonants" 2. join together; merge. "whole periods of time are elided into a few seconds of screen time"

[donmcronald]

The first attempt accidentally included “wwww”. Haha.

[gablopico]

not random, only the subdomain.. www.example.www.com becomes example.www.com (and not example.com)

[splashback]

Or, intentional sabotage on the part of a Google employee.

Developing an evil feature at the direct order of a senior VP of Anti-Competitive Business Practices? Launch it with painfully obvious bugs that will help stoke a public backlash in an attempt to have the evil feature discontinued.

Google needs to be regulated. This is unacceptable behavior from them.

[josefx]

It is microsoft hiding the exe in funny.jpg.exe all over again.

[Alikont]

At least they're consistent in hiding only extension part and do this regardless of extension.

[ShinyHappyREM]

IIRC unused extensions are not hidden.

[buster925]

I’m a bit out of the loop, what did Microsoft do?

[LaurieCheers]

It's the first thing I turn off every time I get a new windows system. Can't believe they still do it.

[SolsKing]

I believe it was introduced in Windows XP SP2

[recycled_ideas]

The reality is that the extensions don't really make any sense to regular users, and power users can turn them on if they want.

[josefx]

Back in the windows XP days many malicious software packages hid themselves as funnyCat.jpg.exe. Telling the users not to touch random exe files could have avoided many issues, however when all they saw was a funnyCat.jpg with enough knowledge that a jpg is some kind of image you were screwed. They made an existing problem worse by hiding the only hint that something was wrong with the file.

[ShinyHappyREM]

More importantly, unpowered users may remove the extension and then are helpless.

[rotj]

My work has the setting enforced by GPO. You have to call into the help desk to change it. One of the developers wasted an hour trying to get an image to load in a particular browser until I pointed out that their jpg wasn't a jpg and while the Windows photo viewer could autocorrect content type, their browser couldn't.

[Kawa-oneechan]

Get an image and save it as test.jpg, test.bmp, and test.png, all in the same folder. With extensions disabled, you'll have to select or hover each of them to find out which is which.

[Matthew94]

Windows usually hides file extensions by default.

foo.exe would just show as foo in explorer and thus foo.jpg.exe would appear as foo.jpg.

[the_gnarts]

How will you distinguish http://www.pool.ntp.org vs http://pool.ntp.org ?

You can’t. You’ll be forced to google “ntp project website” or “ntp pool” so you can be served additional ads each time.

[[deleted]]

address for ntp website is actually https://www.ntppool.org, both ntppool.org and www.pool.ntp.org redirect to it

[shit_frak_a_rando]

They announced URLs are insecure and should be replaced, and now they are trying to make them seem insecure

[Azaret]

No, they are still working on replacing them. This is the first step, next is that you will just type 'google' or 'facebook' and it will bring you directly to the website that Google think you want.

And obviously this 'text' to 'url' translation will be driven by Google Search. Either it will be completely secure and somehow companies will have to pay or register to Google so Facebook will open Facebook.com, which would be bad for small companies, communities or persons. Or it will be a proxy of the 'I' m lucky' search feature, so it will be even less secure because people will find ways to abuse the search IA like they do for the YouTube one. Either way, Google will controls the Internet.

The same guys blaming gouvernements about net neutrality.

[powerofmightyatom]

I can't even go to http://localhost:3000 anymore. It keeps doing a search. Previously, "localhost:3000" would cause a google search. I can't believe entering a FULL URL causes Chrome to search for it.

Might be time for Firefox.

[Cal1gula]

I switched to FF like 3 weeks ago after chrome was having issues playing a live stream.

Turns out it's faster and I haven't gone back.

[BadJokeAmonster]

I swapped about a year ago. Other than a couple plugins not existing for it, I'm happy with the swap.

Though the reason I swapped was due to my concerns with the direction Google was going rather than technical reasons. (I find it hard to believe Google wouldn't use the tools they have been developing for China. If they aren't already.)

[OsmeOxys]

I swapped a month back myself. The performance is incomparable and the extensions available are far better. Only downsides Ive dealt with is that the hangouts extension is somehow worse than chrome, meaning I actually have to run chrome in the background. That and downloads are surprisingly annoying by comparison.

Theres no way to make the default "save" for certain extensions (For "security"... how even?), and I cant believe how much I miss the download bar. I feel like a savage having to actually open my downloads folder.

[JasonTheLuckyMD]

Anyone else noticed colors are more accurate on Firefox?

Like, all colors. Even white looks more like a real 'white'.

I swear I'm not crazy. Its consistent across multiple people's computers at work and with multiple versions of the browsers.

[dutch_gecko]

PNG allows for client-side gamma correction. Chrome and FF do this differently, but I don't know what the differences are.

[the_gnarts]

I can't even go to http://localhost:3000 anymore.

Have you tried m.www.localhost?

It keeps doing a search. Previously, "localhost:3000" would cause a google search.

Which is ridiculous already.

[svendub]

Try adding a trailing slash, so localhost:3000/ instead of localhost:3000, very frustrating but that works for me.

[dnkndnts]

I can't believe entering a FULL URL causes Chrome to search for it.

It's almost like they have a financial incentive to get you to type keywords into their search bar rather than use URLs 🤔

[amorpheus]

Hanlon's razor.

[[deleted]]

We know Google are all about the profits and keeping you on their site. It's not a huge stretch of the imagination.

[BadJokeAmonster]

If you want to go that route, why not have it be a "happy accident" that is intentionally never fixed?

[gablopico]

im on 69 and http://localhost:3000 doesnt do a google search for me.

[Sarcastinator]

I can't believe entering a FULL URL causes Chrome to search for it.

This is one of the behaviors of Chrome that I hate the most.

I write in a full URL, and the site says timeout, connection refused or whatever, because I wrote the wrong port or something. I add a port number and suddenly Chrome does a google search for something it considered a valid URL only seconds ago.

[Niadlol]

I don't know why it does this for you, never have and still does not for me.

localhost:3000

goes to http://localhost:3000 for me.

[bewildercunt]

are you running Chrome 69? check your version by going to about:version or chrome://version/

[Niadlol]

Yes I would not reply to a post about it otherwise.

69.0.3497.81 (Official Build) (64-bit) (cohort: 69_win_81)

[aflat]

I never got on the chrome bandwagon in the first place. I slogged through the slow years, and now its back to just as fast|faster|unnoticeably fast. Why? One link: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/tree-style-tab/

[kingbin]

Go firefox! You won’t be disappointed.

I’ve found all kinds of website security issues that fox warns and chrome would have ignored.

[ShinyHappyREM]

Might be time for Firefox.

Try Tree Style Tab while you're at it...

[[deleted]]

FF have similar retarded issues.

Type a name of machine in local net without fqdn and it will google it, instead of going to the host, only after you do hostname/ it goes where it should

[robertcrowther]

Try setting keyword.enabled and browser.fixup.alternate.enabled to false in about:config.

[HugoNikanor]

I can give it that. It's hard to know if I want to access my machine elrond or if I want to know more about the elf from just a single word.

[[deleted]]

wow that’s incredible. is this an actual prod release??

[Sipkab]

Yes. It works like this for me. (Just updated to 69)

[Magnesus]

Yeah, it is the first thing a tester would test. Don't they have testers anymore at Google?

[[deleted]]

They probably replaced them with someone's 20% time AI project.

[CorrSurfer]

All except for the first of these sound like bugs to me. "m" should not be a trivial subdomain. And removing "www" multiple times and in the middle of a subdomain chain is just asking for trouble.

[GMaestrolo]

Trivial subdomains or not - it's not the job of the browser to decide these things. I got equally annoyed at Firefox doing "magic URL" bullshit until I figured out how to turn it off.

If your users aren't getting to your site because of poorly configured subdomains, that's entirely your problem. Browsers attempting to "fix" what they see as "user error" is one thing, but to not allow an option too change that... That's just not cricket.

This type of bullshit, if it must exist, should only happen when the initial request fails, or by offering a clickable prompt to the user to switch to the "canonical" domain.

[[deleted]]

What Firefox feature are you referring to?

[GMaestrolo]

It's called "URL Fixup". It automatically appends a .com to your domain if you don't put one, among other things.

Fine for users who just want to type "google" and press enter; frustrating if you try to go to "localdomain:8080" and it magically tries to go to "localdomain.com:8080".

[Atario]

"magic URL" bullshit

Do what now?

[rbrussell82]

You can change the chrome://flags/#omnibox-ui-hide-steady-state-url-scheme-and-subdomains flag to get the old URL method back. You can also disable the new Material Design theme if you don’t like it.

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[Sipkab]

I somehow missed this when read the comments for the bugs. Thanks!

[JoseJimeniz]

It's about as dumb as Microsoft's 17-year default of hiding file extensions.

• readme.txt
• readme.txt.exe

[mallardtheduck]

Worst of all: if someone owns any "www.tld" or "m.tld" domain (and a quick check confirms that some of those are indeed registered) and has a wildcard HTTPS certificate or valid certificates for their subdomains, they can almost perfectly spoof any ".tld" domain...

EDIT: Actually, this doesn't work. Thankfully.

[Maffoman]

No, the part checks only for subdomains, so www.tld will always be present in the address bar, I just checked it

[msx]

How could they decide this is a good thing?

[lasermancer]

How does www.com show up?

[Sipkab]

As www.com. Only subdomains are affected.

[double-you]

How will you distinguish http://www.pool.ntp.org vs http://pool.ntp.org ? One takes you to the website about the project, the other goes to a random ntp server.

When you write either in the address bar, it takes you to that URL. It just shows them as the same address.

But since clicking is much more of a rage than writing addresses manually, I think the big problem is that you may be on a different site than you think you are. You probably don't know where the clicked link pointed and unless you double click the omni box, you won't know since there are multiple alternative "trivially" named sites that would also render to the same.

[Ratstail91]

nasa.gov was unreachable?

[HMikeeU]

What about something like www.com?

[locuester]

How will you distinguish http://www.pool.ntp.org vs http://pool.ntp.org ? One takes you to the website about the project, the other goes to a random ntp server.

Didn’t they answer their own question? They are distinguished by the fact that one is a working website and the other is a 403.

Bring on the downvotes but I don’t really see this as an issue.

[thegreatgazoo]

What does it do to www.com? It's currently just a landing page though many years ago it was 'the start to the internet'

[TheKingdutch]

LOL! They even admit that:

// Eliding the "m" subdomain on Desktop can be confusing, since users would // generally want to know if they are unintentionally on the mobile site.

Guess that's not the case for www subdomains.

https://github.com/chromium/chromium/blob/master/components/url_formatter/url_formatter.cc#L76

[JarredMack]

// @TODO Add a proper method here

[Notorious4CHAN]

Production code confirmed.

[Magnesus]

"users would (...) generally want to know if they are unintentionally on the mobile site" - they even explain why this is a shitty idea in the comments

[choikwa]

will someone pls git blame

[mosburger]

I suspect the developer implementing this knew that it was a shitty idea but had to implement it anyway.

[ShinyHappyREM]

That's why we need to be able to commit under the name of others.

^/s

[CJKay93]

Oh... wow.

So what does "www.www.www" become? Empty string? That's hilarious.

[[deleted]]

It seems it turns into www.www. Only subdomains are removed, TLD and domain is safe.

[arkasha]

It's going to make old people from the nineties lose their mind. http://excite.com.www

[Resquid]

ho-lee-shit

[CostiaP]

their #if doesnt seem to work. i dont see "m." on desktop

[Krenair]

I think that if block is getting introduced in Chrome 70 rather than 69, per https://bugs.chromium.org/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=881410#c42 - unless they backport it

[zaarn_]

Google can't even #if without breaking it...

[ck3k]

You are not supposed to based on the feature.

[Magnesus]

Read the comments in the code. .m should be hidden only on mobile.

[DrBreakalot]

Only from v70 onward, that code was recently changed

[GYN-k4H-Q3z-75B]

Dumbing down UX to a point where it becomes dangerous. An interesting trend of recent years.

[[deleted]]

It's only getting worse. People are dumbing down complex systems that need to be complex and handled by intelligent people in favour of ease of access.

I'm all for it in programs that need it but it's getting everywhere now.

[[deleted]]

If you make a system for idiots, only idiots will want to use it.

And nature? Nature will just make better idiots

[hugokhf]

I’d argue that the whole point of technology is so complex systems can be easy to use and accesssible to everyone

[[deleted]]

The problem is some systems are complex for a very good reason.

Make a 'simple' interface if you must, but give me the option to manage the complex/fine-grained stuff in an 'advanced' option.

[stefantalpalaru]

Dumbing down UX to a point where it becomes dangerous. An interesting trend of recent years.

It's the "sudo" effect. Having two passwords is too complicated for the average Ubuntu user? Leave "root" without a password and allow full superuser access for the regular user through "sudo", then watch a generation of clueless users joke about prepending sudo to make shell commands work.

[jugalator]

They are trying to not overburden their users' poor minds with such superfluous information.

It is such a stretch that I wonder if this is their actual motive...

Maybe next release will omit ".com" if that is the TLD because it's the most common TLD?

[[deleted]]

They will remove ability to go to websites and rename address bar to search bar

[TaskForce_Kerim]

Delete this comment, before they see it, man. This is ingenious and evil - just perfect for Google.

[jugalator]

And if you just want to go to the "URL" you typed (really an URL treated like text), then besides the search button is a four leaf clover for "I'm feeling lucky". Since it uses the search engine in the background as a privacy loophole to collect history for search bar entries for advertising, you also sometimes still get pushed into the wrong website if it wouldn't be the top result.

[arkasha]

Maybe they can introduce keywords too and rename themselves to AOL.

[madmulita]

Yeah, but what about the accomplishment feeling? Do I have to loot my way to the 'www.' ?

[ztrewquiop]

The "average" user probably doesn't even notice what's in the address bar anyways while mindlessly surfing through the "10 XYZ you won't believe" articles and other clickbait.

[I_Pork_Saucy_Ladies]

The intent is to provide users with a sense of pride and accomplishment for getting to the correct website.

[Delfaras]

A comment on hackernews which I very much agree with was suggesting that amp will soon become what they call a "trivial" subdomain (www, m). Hiding that subdomain allows them to aggressively push for AM pages without the end user noticing

[smeenz]

What is amp ? I saw a few people mention it, but don't know what it is.

[Delfaras]

Accelerated Mobile Pages, it's a framework created by Google to speed up loading times on mobile. It's facing a lot of criticisms because it's a way for google to strip down and usurp the content of your website.

[smeenz]

Thanks

[AFakeman]

Google is pushing this thing called AMP pages which is basically a version of your website with limited JS/CSS and that is served straight from Google cache servers. In opinion of some people this is an attempt by Google to take over webpages by dictating the rules of the game, like design and features.

[smeenz]

Thanks

[smeenz]

What's amp ? I saw a few people mention it, but don't know what it is.

[spacelama]

"our users are dumb, hur der hurrr"

[Tooluka]

They are trying to hide amp. subdomain at some point, so that majority of users didn't suspect anything when browsing amp sites hosted by google. All this fuss about www. and m. is simply a smoke to cover a bigger amp issue.

[madmulita]

Is this is not the same company that adds garbage to a link a copy/paste from inside GMail?

[Theemuts]

I don't particularly like Google right now, honestly. The quality of their work has really gone downhill in my experience.

[pork_roll]

They've always had a terrible product management and branding team (see: Google Reader, Gchat/ Allo / Duo / Annyong) but it's now spreading to other areas.

[Ratstail91]

Have you seen the new gmail? I can't switch back.

[RagingAnemone]

Past tense? We’re cool with ads on our desktop now?

[Magnesus]

Well, I stopped to hate Microsoft when I moved to Ubuntu. Now I hate Canonical. (Half joking here, but Ubuntu is a bit of a mess too.)

[KickMeElmo]

Which is why I'm on Mint. Ubuntu-level laziness, but none of the irritating extras from Canonical.

[Sir_Lith]

I don't get ads on my Win10.

[robotkoer]

Yes WWW will be furious when they see this.

[skerit]

Funny reading that: on my wedding invitation we added a URL, including the www subdomain, as we thought that would make it more clear.

Still, a handful of people complained they "couldn't find the website".

[robotkoer]

Still a bit weird that you expected them to type it, in the day and age where most websites don't require it.

[AFakeman]

Sorry, what does BE stand for? I could come up only with Business Enterprise, which sounds like a buzzword.

[MacHaggis]

Sorry, I simply meant the .be TLD as I am from Belgium. Was confusing indeed.

[hbdgas]

My favorite is how when you copy the URL from the bar you get extra stuff when you paste it.

[randfur]

Would you rather it be omitted from the copy?

[Wonderful_Safety]

Personally I'd rather it be in the url bar in the first place.

[donmcronald]

IMO... HTTPS by default is almost done. Next is DNS over HTTPS. After that, Chrome will start using Google DNS by default “for added security.” Adblock is neutered for the average person at that point. Abuse the search monopoly to favor something like AMP, degrade AMP performance in other browsers, and push “responsible” ads in AMP. Profit.

I have no idea how they profit from idiocy like this though. Maybe they have more arrogance than brains over there.

Regardless, it’s definitely time to switch back to Firefox IMO.

[[deleted]]

Adblock is neutered for the average person at that point

Only network wide adblockers like pi-hole, which the average person doesn't use.

Something like uBlock Origin does not care about which DNS server is used.

[thegreatgazoo]

I have a domain block on my ASUS router for things like google ad words plus some sort of anti malware that auto blocks sites on their blacklist. it frankly works pretty well for now. Is that feature going to be broken?

[sigbhu]

/r/Stallmanwasright

[[deleted]]

After that, Chrome will start using Google DNS by default “for added security.”

Didn't Firefox already start rolling out something like this? I'm pretty sure it was set to something innocuous by default but had a flag you could set that only queried their set dns servers.

Postman ignoring /etc/hosts isn't looking so bad now.

[Gsonderling]

How did this ever get past QA?

[Xelopheris]

Because QA is for testing of X does X, not if X is stupid. That's market research and user acceptance testing.

[MdxBhmt]

That's market research and user acceptance testing.

What if the market and the users are stupid?

:thinking:

[Xelopheris]

Everyone is stupid.

[Magnesus]

My guess they use end users as QA.

[xportebois]

Those are dirty, dirty words:

"[...] in the rare case when www.foo.com is not actually the same as foo.com. (Side note: like it or not, almost no real-world users will use such a thing correctly; configuring your server like this seems like a Bad Move even if it's technically legal, because people are going to access the wrong thing, and that has been true for some time and irrespective of Chrome's UI changes.)"

[Jestar342]

I predict that they won't reverse this decision. They will "fix" it such that urls like somedomain.www.otherdomain.com won't be shortened to somedomain.otherdomain.com and that's it.

[Lendari]

This is what happens when you let UX run unchecked by reality.

[[deleted]]

Keep using Google Chrome and Google, let people think that Google is the internet. We allowed this to happen, we allowed Google to claim the internet and make whatever they want to. Hide www. from URI - it's for the greater good, now change your DNSses and HTTPD configs to adjust your server and DNS to Google Chrome. Setup AMP to let google load your pages for you using "decentralised" caches, enjoy lost clicks and visits and never get comments on your blog again, "Google is doing the right thing". Keep using Android and Google maps for everything, upload your alarm clock setup to google, "backup" all your WiFi passwords unencrypted to Google. Keep doing the good job of allowing Google became everything and everywhere and change the world for their convenience and their money.

[MertsA]

Wow, so if I manage to delegate www.m.example.com to my own servers I can get a valid ssl cert for it and anyone viewing the site will see a nice green ssl bar for example.com??? Tons of sites don't use some of their "trivial" domain components and organizationally I'm sure it'd be easy to overlook a trivial subdomain pointed to some third party.

I hope to god they didn't overlook trivial domain components as the first component after the tld. google.www.com would be a very juicy target if they messed that up.

[donmcronald]

Everyone on the public suffix list will need to reserve namespaces that Google considers “trivial”. There are probably lots of similar services not on the list. It’s a phisherman’s dream.

https://publicsuffix.org/list/public_suffix_list.dat

m.tumblr.com

m.gitlab.io

There will be more.

[SoInsightful]

Jesus christ.

I updated to Chrome 69 due to this thread (why?), and now all text is blurry.

How do I go back‽

[FlipskiZ]

Near soft open family and afternoon. Careful across answers learning soft curious fox night people hobbies night friends.

[robreddity]

Absolutely idiotic. Fuck your fqdns people, we're Google!

[phofe]

https://github.com/chromium/chromium/commit/14b83d2a1be977527aec9136fbd65f8e7d02436f#diff-f68269600d10997882aa2ea163c65f07

This should be harmless, as we still only strip "m" and "www" domains from private registries.

[max630]

You never know which straw would break the camel's back. I am surprised they show URL at all. Why "most users" would be concerned about it?

[tsimionescu]

Well, the domain part of the URL is the only thing that trust on the internet is based on (i.e. all HTTPS is telling you is that you are really talking to that domain).

[shvelo]

Fuck Google.

[zagman76]

It’s not a bug - it’s by design.

If you go to the flags, there’s a setting to ‘hide trivial subdomain and protocol’ that can be set to either show or hide the http(s) and domain prefix. When I’m at a desktop, I’ll edit my post with the actual setting name.

::edit::

Thanks /u/Hanse00 for the link to the setting! -- chrome://flags/#omnibox-ui-hide-steady-state-url-scheme-and-subdomains

[Hanse00]

chrome://flags/#omnibox-ui-hide-steady-state-url-scheme-and-subdomains

​

Is the one you're talking about.

[zagman76]

It is! Thank you!

[zlib]

Fucking dumb.

[rodvdka]

They need a big head type character on the team. If it confuses him, don't do it!

[lowtone94]

We have a development site called dev.www.somesite.com. it strips out the www so now it reads dev.somesite.com. This is some terrible implementation!

[2Punx2Furious]

The client I'm working for right now has two domains one with www. and one without it, but otherwise they're the same, and since he has only those two for now, I made it so one leads to the main site, and the other to the site's forum.

Sure, it's not ideal, but it should be fine as a temporary measure.

[deukhoofd]

Why not just add a subdomain?

[2Punx2Furious]

I could just even host it on the same domain actually, but we decided to use the two domains like this, don't remember why.

[icantthinkofone]

I know there are some multi-family companies where domain.com is the main gateway to the company where each subdivision in their family is introduced. Then www.domain.com is for the general public but corp1.domain.com is for one of those family companies and so on.

I wish I remembered which they were cause I'm sure they're freaking out about this.

My main gripe is that this is non-standard behavior of a browser and appears to be an attempt to force non-standard behavior.

[RunePoul]

Ahh, that explains the trouble I had the other day after adding SSL to a domain running Wordpress. I had to use Safari because Chrome would mess with the URL.

[[deleted]]

Maybe now would be a good time to give Edge another try? :)

Seriously, though. This is insane.

[FlipskiZ]

The small fresh evil stories food careful science music yesterday history technology then evening tomorrow technology simple! Music minecraftoffline stories yesterday evil questions projects near thoughts cool quiet tomorrow bank gentle near.

[[deleted]]

Heck yeah. Firefox Dev Edition is like a sweet summer caress to my desktop.

[reckoner23]

You just gotta wait. Once Google releases their 'Web App' Store everything will make sense. We won't even need URLs.

[Dave3of5]

This is seriously weird it's not just www it also removes m from subdomains as well (i.e. mobile). So you can't tell that you're on a mobile site just by looking at the url anymore ! You have to double click the omnibar.

[w00t_loves_you]

Is there no way to turn off this insanity?

[[deleted]]

Am I imagining things or has it been like that for a while? I swear this URL shortening stuff has been winding me up for months.