Stories
Slash Boxes
Comments

SoylentNews is people

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.

 
This discussion has been archived. No new comments can be posted.
Chrome Experiments with URL-less Web | Log In/Create an Account | Top | 67 comments | Search Discussion
Display Options Threshold/Breakthrough Mark All as Read Mark All as Unread
The Fine Print: The following comments are owned by whoever posted them. We are not responsible for them in any way.

  • (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.