Chrome skipping "http://". More minimalism?

1 points by nrbafna 16y ago ↗ HN

Recent update to latest dev in Google Chrome seems to have brought a change in url display. While browsers display URL's as "http://news.ycombinator.com/", this builde of Chrome currently does it as "news.ycombinator.com".

The same happened in the Google I/O Chrome Web Store preview. The url was of the store was not prefixed by "http://". Other protocols, https/ftp, are explicitly listed, though.

Is it another step towards minimalistic approach, as most url's have "http://" in them, so why not skip displaying it? Or does it have some technological relevance?

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imurray 16y ago ↗

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1263512

buster 16y ago ↗

That's been for a while now, atleast on the versions i have. I don't really like it, but well.. Especially since, when you copy the url, the http:// is added again. It's kind of inconsistent.