But Microsoft is now courting controversy with a new Edge feature that’s now live in Canary. As an Edge insider claims on Reddit, the browser no longer displays the HTTP and WWW parts of a web address. A lot of Windows insiders are unhappy with this change.
Latest Microsoft Edge Canary build doesn’t display full web address
If you launch a web page in the Microsoft Edge browser and take a look at the address bar right now, you’ll notice that it displays all components of the site’s address. For starters, you should see the scheme of the URL, which highlights connection type (i.e. http:// or https://). The address of the web page you’re on forms the other part of the URL. However, the latest Edge Canary build hides the scheme, and some Windows insiders are now questioning the importance of this change. You can still have the browser display the full web address by double-clicking on the omnibox, according to the Reddit user. But if you modify URLs often, hiding WWW or HTTP components in omnibox by default doesn’t really exactly work in your favor. Hopefully, Microsoft will take insider feedback into account before pushing the feature to the stable version of Edge. What do you think about Microsoft Edge hiding the scheme component of URLs? Feel free to express your opinion in the comments section below.
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