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Chrome Experiments with URL-less Web

posted by Woods on Thursday May 01 2014, @07:37PM   Printer-friendly
from the now-all-those-URLs-I-memorized-are-worthless dept.

Ja'Achan writes:

Yesterday, a Canary build of Google Chrome removed something kind of important from the browser: the URL. Basically, it only shows the domain and leaves the rest of the URL bar as a search field.

Allen Pike, a blogger who writes "about technology and crap like that" suggests burying the URL like this will probably have some usability and security benefits. From the article:

More recently, browsers started hiding the URL scheme. http:// was no more, as far as most users were concerned. In iOS 7, Mobile Safari went even further and hid everything about the URL except the domain. With the Chrome "origin chip" change, the URL will move out of the field entirely, to a tidy little button that many users will never even realize is clickable.

 
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  • (Score: 5, Interesting) by Anonymous Cowherd on Thursday May 01 2014, @08:02PM

    by Anonymous Cowherd (3699) on Thursday May 01 2014, @08:02PM (#38624)

    This is going to force everyone to "share" links not with URLs but through their facebook or other logins so that big brother can snoop more effortlessly.
    Don't be evil, but it's ok to help others who are evil.

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  • (Score: 2) by tangomargarine on Thursday May 01 2014, @08:48PM

    by tangomargarine (667) on Thursday May 01 2014, @08:48PM (#38645)

    ...aaaand there's the probably motivation. I swear, lately I might as well invert Hanlon's Razor; it would be more accurate that way.

    "You didn't kill us, but you handed us over to those who would. That gets you nothing."

    --
    "Is that really true?" "I just spent the last hour telling you to think for yourself! Didn't you hear anything I said?"

  • (Score: 1) by Teckla on Friday May 02 2014, @01:25PM

    by Teckla (3812) on Friday May 02 2014, @01:25PM (#38895)

    This is going to force everyone to "share" links not with URLs but through their facebook or other logins so that big brother can snoop more effortlessly.

    You can click on the domain name (it's a button) to get the full URL for easy copying and sharing.

    Don't be evil, but it's ok to help others who are evil.

    Let's be very careful with our accusations of evil. The more our accusations turn out to be false, the more they'll be ignored in the future.