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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 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) Subscriber Badge 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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