Google Removes http:// from Chrome
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Google Removes http:// from Chrome
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Re: Google Removes http:// from Chrome
#2Considering how much is abstracted from the user these days, I've always wondered why something as technical and meaningless to the average user like "http:// hasn't been removed before. Good move I say.
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#4Since the OS X pasteboard is clever enough to add http:// back in when copying the url from the location bar, this actually works pretty well on my Mac. I like it too.
I can see how it'd be intensely frustrating if the pasteboard doesn't work, though.
Re: Google Removes http:// from Chrome
#5What happens on Copy/Paste?
google.com http://google.com
are not the same in the context of the web.
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#6What happens on Copy/Paste? google.com http://google.com are not the same in the context of the web.
The full url with http:// is added to the clipboard when you copy.
Re: Google Removes http:// from Chrome
#7There's a lot of comments about this over here:
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It's the dev track. If you don't want to see bugs, switch.
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#9Re: Google Removes http:// from Chrome
#10I 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.