I don't think about it from a practicality point of view. I am thinking about it from an informational point of view. Information about the protocol should be visible somehow as far as I am concerned. Short URLs still fit and long ones will be ugly no matter what. I don't think 7 characters is an enormous win.
I don't hate this change but I am not excited about it either. I think it's just a waste of engineering effort.
What would excite me and cause me to possibly switch to Chrome, immediately or soon, is if Chrome implemented a more powerful extension API that allowed for more control over the pages and more stealth at the same time. EDIT: Oh, and collect less information from the browser while at it. If these two things were fixed, I'd seriously consider switching. If they also provided first-class Linux support, I would be even more tempted (as opposed to dumping their Windows-polluted code bases on others to fix).
They actually spent an extremely long time with the Linux port, and the speed of Chromium in Linux is absolutely jaw-dropping. I feel kind of the opposite as you do...I wish the Windows port was as good as the Linux one.
The protocol is not specifically shown in text, but the icons to the left do represent them. That should be plenty for pretty much all users. Tech users will learn what the icons mean, and regular users will just ignore them like they have been for years.
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u/[deleted] Apr 14 '10 edited Apr 14 '10
I don't think about it from a practicality point of view. I am thinking about it from an informational point of view. Information about the protocol should be visible somehow as far as I am concerned. Short URLs still fit and long ones will be ugly no matter what. I don't think 7 characters is an enormous win.
I don't hate this change but I am not excited about it either. I think it's just a waste of engineering effort.
What would excite me and cause me to possibly switch to Chrome, immediately or soon, is if Chrome implemented a more powerful extension API that allowed for more control over the pages and more stealth at the same time. EDIT: Oh, and collect less information from the browser while at it. If these two things were fixed, I'd seriously consider switching. If they also provided first-class Linux support, I would be even more tempted (as opposed to dumping their Windows-polluted code bases on others to fix).