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Sorry, we do not understand your question. What is the URL you don't want to show and what is the URL you want to show? Also, what is the Existing URL and the New URL in your redirection?

What you observe is the expected and desired behaviour. This is a URL redirection feature. As the name promises, when you visit the /learning-never-stops URL it is redirected using an HTTP 302 redirection to http://www.joomla-dev.com/my-blog/29-learning-never-stops.html and of course that shows in the address bar.

If you want the canonical URL which will be displayed in the browser to be http://www.joomla-dev.com/learning-never-stops you need to to the exact opposite:

1. Create a hidden menu
2. Create a menu item in the hidden menu pointing to this article and give it an alias of learning-never-stops
3. Set the Existing URL to http://www.joomla-dev.com/learning-never-stops and New URL to http://www.joomla-dev.com/my-blog/29-learning-never-stops.html

Now everyone visiting the undesired URL (http://www.joomla-dev.com/my-blog/29-learning-never-stops.html) will be redirected to http://www.joomla-dev.com/learning-never-stops (desired URL) and those who visit the desired URL will stay on the desired URL.

This is how the /download.html URL is configured on our site ;) Try visiting https://www.akeebabackup.com/downloads.html and you'll see that the trailing s disappears from downloads.html. We used the same method I described above so yes, it's very well tested :)