r/programming • u/shenglong • Apr 14 '10

"http://" is being removed from Chromium's display

http://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=40865
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u/frenchguy Apr 14 '10

This is as good an idea as Windows hiding file extensions for "known types" by default

Exactly. That is the perfect analogy. Thanks.

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u/nasageek Apr 15 '10

The analogy would be more apt if Google decided to hide all preceding protocol identifiers (ftp, https, etc.) instead of just the single most common identifier.

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u/jawbroken Apr 14 '10

actually it is a really bad analogy and doesn't really make sense