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: 2) by forsythe on Thursday May 01 2014, @09:10PM
I can only think of one way to make that better. Instead of white, off-white. Sort of light-gray-ish. Eggshell, I think they call it.
So is the world going to just send me a check, or will it be deposited to my bank account directly?
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday May 01 2014, @09:17PM
We'll send an off-white blank piece of paper.