An early build of Chrome has removed something important - The URL

[Blake]

30 Apr 2014

Today, a Canary build of Google Chrome removed something kind of important from the browser: the URL.

Of course it still supports them, but the time where users actually see URLs is ending. With Chrome’s “Enable origin chip in Omnibox” flag, Location becomes a write-only field. Clicking there no longer reveals the URL for the user to edit or share, but instead waits for you to search Google.

Read More -->http://www.allenpike.com/2014/burying-the-url/


Interesting article of what may or may not be the future of browsers etc.....something to keep an eye on!

 

[JB Lions]

Read More -->http://www.allenpike.com/2014/burying-the-url/


Interesting article of what may or may not be the future of browsers etc.....something to keep an eye on!

It'll never make it to the public build, confusing people is never progress.

 

[eyedomainous]

Goog-Tube site and service URLs dominate the web so they would be the biggest loser, in terms of branding mind-share.

I can live with that.

 

[Kate]

Bad idea. Will make phishing more difficult to detect.

 

[south]

It'll never make it to the public build, confusing people is never progress.

That never stopped Microsoft.

 

[namey]

If this goes through I guess I will have to delete Chrome, it will make getting anything done 10x harder.

 

[lumita]

yea i have seen it

 

[leo98]

Firefox for life

 

[snowbird]

That is one of the benefits of having competition. What one company does with their browser, another company might not or may even decide to head in another direction that could be even better. Experiments may come and go but companies adapt to changes that people like best. Take Windows 8 for example. Many people found it so confusing that now Microsoft has been doing their best to implement into the environment what people are most use to. Swiping down was confusing to close apps, so now they have brought back the red X in the corner in a recent update. People missed the start button and now that has also been brought back. These companies are in business to make money and if they can't keep their customers satisfied... i'll let you fill in the blank.

 

[alien51]

I think the location bar, is a universal basic functionality of web browsers. Having it permanently pointing to Google Search can be illegal under the terms of Anti-Trust regulations.