Google Removes http:// from Chrome

Re:Google Removes http:// from Chrome by fiaz on Sunday April 18, 2010 @12:09PM (#1274997)

I can see the obscuring of http:// being useful way back in 1995, but in 2010, it seems kind of a moot point given how ubiquitous the act of web browsing is.

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Re:Google Removes http:// from Chrome by evanrmurphy on Sunday April 18, 2010 @02:31PM (#1275225)

Wouldn't it be more useful now that web browsing is so ubiquitous?

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Re:Google Removes http:// from Chrome by gloob on Sunday April 18, 2010 @05:25PM (#1275532)

To be entirely honest, I can't see how it would be useful either in 1995 or now. A person either cares about URLs or they don't. In the first case, the URL should be displayed properly; in the second, they won't have a damn clue what all that funny text in the box at the top of the screen is anyway, so you may as well show it properly.

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