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

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: 1) by number6 on Friday May 02 2014, @08:22AM

    by number6 (1831) on Friday May 02 2014, @08:22AM (#38802) Journal

     
       --> "Defaults are important ... blah blah blah"

    Did you read the rest of my post? Default is the built-in option unless a user chooses to install another plugin. Your restaurant/car analogy is nothing but better-than-you scaremongering designed to protect some elitist lifestyles and is just plain bullshit. I'd be making plans to get rid of people like you if I was in charge.
     
     
       --> "More choice is not magically good ... blah blah blah"

    Good, bad, blah blah blah more better-than-you scaremongering shit that says nothing; the only thing not good enough here is you. Getting rid of people like you from application and operating system design teams would be a fantastic move by people involved in the upper echelons of the computer industry.