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Re:Google Removes http:// from Chrome by GHFigs on Sunday April 18, 2010 @02:47PM (#1275254)
Good move, overall. Every browser I know of automatically inserts the http:// and has for some time now. Removing the visual component of this just completes the abstraction that's already there.

The author suggests replacing the string of text with an icon, like RSS. But the RSS icon quickly went from "standard" to "indecipherable clusterfuck" in practice. http://images.google.com/images?q=rss%20icons

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Re:Google Removes http:// from Chrome by joeyh on Sunday April 18, 2010 @03:54PM (#1275376)
The "http:// has been replaced by an icon. I suspect it's supposed to be a small planet earth icon, but the color choice makes it look like the moon, and the continent placement makes it look like a squinty smiley face when viewed from a few feet away.

Icons.. feh.

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