SOFTWARE DEVELOPER Google has made a modification in the developer version of its browser Chrome, which seems to have ruffled a few feathers, by getting purge of the "http://" from the commencement of web addresses, putting in its place a pretty blue Earth icon.If you are wondering about whether you will still see "ftp://" and "https://", not to worry, these will be shown. But quite a few people have protested regarding this change, one of the arguments being that when people want to copy the text of the URL, they want the "http://" to go along with it, so they can embed, tweet it otherwise do something else.
Google has tried to address this so that copying all the text will give the "http://" prefix, but unfortunately there are some problems with this. One of these is a bug where a partial copy of the URL will mean you’ll have to reinsert the "http://". There are also other documented issues, like breaking middle-click paste functionality in Linux.
It’s comprehensible why Google is working on making this change. The "http://" bit of a web address doesn't actually mean very much, with even the father of the World Wide Web (WWW) Tim Berners-Lee admitting that the "//" was really a pointless and unnecessary addition.
And Safari has previously done this with its mobile browser, likely for the reason that it saves space. But, judging from the uproar from users, Google hasn't totally thought through what this change may mean for some web users.
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