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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: 1) by boltronics on Friday May 02 2014, @03:33AM

    by boltronics (580) on Friday May 02 2014, @03:33AM (#38735) Homepage Journal

    This is super frustrating behaviour too! Sometimes I want the entire URL, but other times I just want the domain name (eg. to copy it into an xterm to run dig against).

    Because I have to copy from the start of the string, browsers automatically add in the https:/// [https] at the start, so I have to go and delete that in the xterm manually, wasting any time saving the copy and paste operation may have gained. If this proposed change takes place, one may find themselves need to strip out other parts of the URL from the clipboard also, making the situation that much worse. Just show me the full text, and let me select the bits I want to copy myself - like in every other application!

    For those curious, the solution in Firefox is found in about:config, by setting browser.urlbar.trimURLs to false.

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