[Kaze404]

> If I need the whole URL visible at all times as a developer, that's an hour of chrome extension writing to make it always viewable.

Interesting. Other comments in this thread indicate that the only extension that can do this has its ID hard-coded in the url parsing code to be whitelisted.

[shadowgovt]

An extension can get window.location and can then paint it anywhere on the page the developer chooses, or put it in a drop down, or send it to an external service via an HTTP request and beam it to the moon, if the developer wishes.