Comments on: Chromium Removing http://

By: Gerald Scheuerman

Gerald Scheuerman — Wed, 22 Sep 2010 16:03:20 +0000

I don’t agree that showing the protocol is ‘ugly’. I think the solution is to have a switch to allow developers who have to use browsers as tools of their trade versus ‘neophytes’ that don’t know the difference between a search engine and a browser.

By: Aaron

Aaron — Mon, 21 Jun 2010 15:27:40 +0000

Yeah, that’s WordPress for you.

By: Andy Waddington

Andy Waddington — Mon, 21 Jun 2010 13:46:50 +0000

and oh look, this site does the opposite – because I typed an address starting with www, it has inserted an http:// and made it a link (to a completely false domain name, as I saw no need to use the real one). Why can’t software respect the idea that people type what they want and if it’s wrong they can correct it themselves ?

By: Andy Waddington

Andy Waddington — Mon, 21 Jun 2010 13:44:46 +0000

It should be a user-choosable option, like choosing to use the window manager’s title bar, or having middle-click open a new window not a new tab.

Copy-and-paste by highlight then middle-click is important. We do it without actually looking to see what is inserted, because we expect it to work – it always has.

And the suggestion that the “www.” is equally redundant is laughable. http://www.mydomain... is a fast webserver hosted by my ISP, whilst mydomain is my own server on the end of my ADSL line (with 2 Tb of storage, but a slow pipe to the net). They are different machines at different addresses – that’s not uncommon.

By: tokland

tokland — Sat, 29 May 2010 14:18:32 +0000

@Daviey and others. As you probably know, GNU/Linux has more than one selection. The normal clipboard works fine, but the primary selection (the one you just select text with your mouse) is not processed by the application, so after this change you get a wrong link.

Objectively this “feature” breaks a very usual copy/pasting method for GNU/Linux users. If Chromium developers care or care not, it’s another matter. According to the opened issues report, they don’t.

By: Aaron

Aaron — Fri, 30 Apr 2010 04:12:22 +0000

No, it’s not the same as https://. HTTPS is not the default protocol of the browser. HTTP is.

By: mathew

mathew — Fri, 30 Apr 2010 00:20:04 +0000

Exactly the same arguments apply to https://

I opened a bug, but it got closed as WONTFIX.

The average user doesn’t care about the path either, let alone the query string or fragment identifier. The omnibar should just show “cnn.com”, “ebay.com” etc. Then you can either make the entire URL show up when the cursor enters the omnibar, or have a preference somewhere to make it show the whole URL always, and everyone will be happy.

(Also, your OpenID authentication failed with “No matching endpoint”, whatever that means.)

By: Marco Trevisan

Marco Trevisan — Mon, 19 Apr 2010 15:54:23 +0000

I can confirm… Copying prepends the http://, I like this.

By: Daviey

Daviey — Mon, 19 Apr 2010 12:52:26 +0000

Copy (both types) and paste worked exactly as it should, perpending http://.. So there is no issue. :/

By: Aaron

Aaron — Mon, 19 Apr 2010 12:30:28 +0000

@Mez As mentioned, that’s a regression. A future build will add the “http://” to the clipboard web object for pasting. This wget, shouldn’t break. As it sits, I have Google Chrome 5.0.375.9 dev, and this behavior works.

By: Huygens

Huygens — Mon, 19 Apr 2010 11:54:52 +0000

@Mez and others here:
If you are geek enough to use wget or develop web sites, then you are clever enough to add the http://

I also welcome the change. The http/https/ftp/etc. are internal specification that are not necessary for the humans. Those are necessary for interface between application layers and different applications.
Therefore, this change will break a few apps, but those few apps were probably in need of a better UI in the first place.

By: Kenneth Christiansen

Kenneth Christiansen — Mon, 19 Apr 2010 10:53:47 +0000

You can internally store the http:// so that copying http://www.google.com will actually copy http:// as well, thus solving the problems with copy and paste. A similar technique has been used by IMs, who might replace “:-)” with an image, but still make the copy contain the “:-)”.

By: antistress

antistress — Mon, 19 Apr 2010 09:01:25 +0000

This articles has convinced me

By: Mez

Mez — Mon, 19 Apr 2010 08:15:47 +0000

Now try copying the URL to use with something like wget, or to use in HTML for another page… Accidentally forget that you need to manually add it in.

Oh, damn, it broke my download/website.

By: Simon

Simon — Mon, 19 Apr 2010 07:51:28 +0000

I welcome this change as well. Many times I see inexperienced people typing web address before http:// or deleting one slash and then become confused when their web page doesn’t open. It was silly to display this in the first place I think.