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by laserbeam 953 days ago
Phones have small screens, and most browsers only show the URL on demand when you do a gesture. Also, you generally can't fit the whole URL while in landscape on a phone. You need to scroll it sideways if you want to find something in it.

I don't think we can expect URLs to be read in full by people on phones :(.
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avodonosov 953 days ago
On demand is ok. But there should be an easy and convenient way to see.

> You need to scroll it sideways if you want to find something in it.

> I don't think we can expect URLs to be read in full by people on phones :(.

That's because it's implemented inconveniently, a single line. When user taps the address bar, the browser could expand it into an URL editor, conveniently wrapping lines by url parameter boundaries, etc

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