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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: 2) by maxwell demon on Thursday May 01 2014, @10:26PM

    by maxwell demon (1608) on Thursday May 01 2014, @10:26PM (#38666) Journal

    Since the upgrade to Firefox 29 today, this hyperlink anchor display has indeed vanished for me (although I have no idea whether it's because of some bad interaction from extensions rather than a genuine change of Firefox; anyway, the update broke that, and several other things, too).

    If it were not for the extensions, I'd consider switching browsers again. Except that I have no ideas to what; there seem to be no reasonable browsers left.

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  • (Score: 1) by NowhereMan on Thursday May 01 2014, @11:30PM

    by NowhereMan (3980) on Thursday May 01 2014, @11:30PM (#38685)
    Have a look at Pale Moon. It's based on FF and most extensions work. They are also keeping the current interface.

    http://www.palemoon.org/ [palemoon.org]

    • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday May 02 2014, @01:30AM

      by Anonymous Coward on Friday May 02 2014, @01:30AM (#38714)

      >They are also keeping the current interface.

      The best thing about it is, with just a few changes in the about:config section you can get back a similar FF 3.5 look and feel. And it's 64-bit.

      And they don't use the retarded version numbers as much as mozilla does (current is 24.5.0 at the time of this writing).

    • (Score: 2) by LookIntoTheFuture on Friday May 02 2014, @01:56AM

      by LookIntoTheFuture (462) on Friday May 02 2014, @01:56AM (#38717)
      "Have a look at Pale Moon. It's based on FF and most extensions work. They are also keeping the current interface.

      http://www.palemoon.org/ [palemoon.org]"

      Seconded. I started using it about a month ago, after using Firefox exclusively since it was called Phoenix. To me, it is what Firefox should be.

    • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday May 02 2014, @03:09AM

      by Anonymous Coward on Friday May 02 2014, @03:09AM (#38732)

      Pale Moon is an Open Source, Firefox-based web browser for Microsoft Windows...

      And that's where I stopped paying attention.

  • (Score: 2) by Reziac on Friday May 02 2014, @02:29AM

    by Reziac (2489) on Friday May 02 2014, @02:29AM (#38722) Homepage

    SeaMonkey is still decidedly old-fashioned....

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  • (Score: 1) by Magic Oddball on Friday May 02 2014, @08:33AM

    by Magic Oddball (3847) on Friday May 02 2014, @08:33AM (#38807) Journal

    A lot of Firefox extensions are also available for SeaMonkey these days, and a long list have been converted by Seamonkey forum members (they'll convert or help others convert any others on request):
    Modded Extensions for SeaMonkey [mozillazine.org]

    I switched over a few months ago now, and really wish I'd found out that it's a viable option before then -- it's what Firefox would have been like if the devs had focused on resource usage, stability, and useful features instead of trying to turn it into a crappy Chrome clone.

    • (Score: 2) by maxwell demon on Friday May 02 2014, @06:28PM

      by maxwell demon (1608) on Friday May 02 2014, @06:28PM (#39017) Journal

      Thanks, sounds great. I was once a SeaMonkey user, but finally had switched to Firefox because of the extensions issue. But if that has improved in the mean time, maybe I should try it again.

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