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.
(Score: 1) by cnst on Thursday May 01 2014, @08:23PM
> What next, will they remove the browser's display of an anchor's hyperlink so you have no clue where the link you might click goes?
Didn't Apple already do this with Safari back in the day a few years back?
IIRC, they've removed the status bar by default, and didn't have any on-hover-status-bar-pop-ups back then.
(Score: 1) by datapharmer on Friday May 02 2014, @10:51AM
yes, also even mac users don't use safari. it does crazy stuff like switching requests for https back to http with no prompt, warning or expaination.