What is a URL? You may already know that a URL is another way of saying “web address.” We all go to web addresses every day as we shop online, read the news or scroll our social media accounts.

Fortunately, it is easy to expand the URL address bar on all of the major Web browsers, namely Internet Explorer, Firefox, Google Chrome, Opera and Safari, so you have room to type long addresses.

The researchers discovered over 23 million Google Maps URLs in their samples, about 10 percent of which were for stored directions from one location to another and the remainder address locations.

To clean up the Chrome address bar, Google has decided to hide the https:// and www parts of the URL. If you want to see this part, you need only double-click in the address bar—and it will also ...

Add them with a slash before the URL in your address bar, and you're good to go. Web PR enthusiast Steve Rubel shared this tip, directly from bit.ly's management, on his personal stream site, and ...

Apps & Updates Google Chrome Accelerated Mobile Pages AMP addresses will soon show full site URL and drop ‘google․com/amp’ prefix ...

Web addresses can be bloated with incomprehensible text, and a demo shows Apple likely will tuck most of an address away in the next Safari. Expect pushback: URLs can be useful, too.