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		SamBam on Feb 25, 2021 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: 17 year old Firefox feature request fixed Huh, just tried that on Chrome/macOS on Reddit and it actually went to the end of the www, no less. So news.ycombinator.com it goes to the right of https:// and www.reddit.com it goes to the right of https://www. Madness.

userbinator on Feb 25, 2021 [–]

Google's (standardised![1]) destruction of the URL in action.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20574210

Personally, my preferred way of displaying a URL and interacting with it is a full, unmolested URL, in a regular UI edit control.

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