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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: 3, Funny) by michealpwalls on Thursday May 01 2014, @09:59PM

    by michealpwalls (3920) on Thursday May 01 2014, @09:59PM (#38662) Homepage Journal

    Google actually wants us all to search to find the resources we want? Who could have expected this turn of events!? :)

    If Google does not have the resource indexed, I wonder how you would gain access to it?

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  • (Score: 2) by bob_super on Friday May 02 2014, @12:20AM

    by bob_super (1357) on Friday May 02 2014, @12:20AM (#38696)

    If it's not in the Jedi catalog, then it doesn't exist...

  • (Score: 3, Insightful) by Ryuugami on Friday May 02 2014, @01:48AM

    by Ryuugami (2925) on Friday May 02 2014, @01:48AM (#38715)

    If Google does not have the resource indexed, I wonder how you would gain access to it?

    Through the chillingefects.org, of course.

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    • (Score: 2) by Reziac on Friday May 02 2014, @02:33AM

      by Reziac (2489) on Friday May 02 2014, @02:33AM (#38723) Homepage

      You may be more prophetic than you know... :(

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