If you’re like most people, you use Google Chrome to surf the web. But did you know that you can also show full URLs in Chrome? Here’s how:
- Open Google Chrome and click on the three lines in the top right corner of the browser window.
- Click on “Settings.”
- Under “Advanced,” click on “Show full URL.” ..
Google Chrome hides the “https://” and “www.” in web addresses until you click twice in the address field. If you’d rather see the full URL, you can do it in two clicks. You’ll see “https://www.howtogeek.com” instead of “howtogeek.com”.
Just right-click in Chrome’s address bar select “Always show full URLs” to make Chrome show full URLs.
Chrome will now always show the full URL of every web address you open.
To disable this feature, right-click in the address bar again and uncheck it.
No Longer Necessary: The Hidden Flag
In Chrome 83, you had to enable this hidden flag first. This is no longer necessary, but we’re leaving this section here for historical reasons—or in case this changes in the future.
This option requires enabling a hidden flag in Google Chrome. To find it, copy-paste the following text into Chrome’s address bar and press Enter:
To the right of “Context menu show full URLs” on the Flags page, click the box and select “Enabled.”
Click “Relaunch Chrome” to restart the browser. Be sure to save any data on web pages before clicking this button—Chrome will reopen all your tabs, but you may lose information that you typed in forms on web pages, for example.
As usual with Chrome flags, this hidden flag is experimental and could be removed or change at any time in the future.
We expect that Google will one day remove the flag and leave the “Always show full URLs” option in the address bar for everyone. Anyone would then be able to toggle full web addresses in a few clicks without messing with flags.
