Welcome to the http less web. Oh wait, http is the base of the basic web, right ? The hyper text transfer protocol. Â Hmm, the latest Google Chrome version is displaying website addresses on the address bar without http.
Why didn’t anyone think of this stuff until now ??? ( is there any other browser with this feature ? )
It sounds so simple, and sometimes, yes, sometimes useful, ( to me ). I am waiting for your reactions, and hear from Google itself, what is the real deal behind removing http from the address bar, other than saving the space in address bar, a few characters.
Updates from PhistucK :
Background of the whole toolbar became grey.
An icon was added in the left end of the omnibar, to indicate http (a planet), https (a lock), https with http resources (a lock with an exclamation point), invalid https (skeleton)
Is there something big happening in the background ? I dont see much chances – what you think ?
Other Small Changes
There are few other changes as well, in the latest version of chrome. Â Bookmark button (Yellow star) moves to the right side of the address bar.
The Shortcut for Bookmarks bar has been changed from CTRL + B to CTRL + SHIFT + B
Refresh button and Home button interchanged. Now the refresh button is right next to ( left side ) the addressbar, makes more sense now. Isn’t it ?
about that bookmark button, I am still confused because of the position change…
but I will get used to it.
I use the shortcut CTRL + D and thats easier for me, and no confusion when they change it
but the reload and home button used to confuse me, its better now !
Pleasant change… must say coz I just got started with Chrome..
welcome to the party !
Also, the background of the whole toolbar became grey.
An icon was added in the left end of the omnibar, to indicate http (a planet), https (a lock), https with http resources (a lock with an exclamation point), invalid https (skeleton).
And some more small ones, perhaps.
thank you ! updated !
ow, that’s the reason of that planet in the omnibar. I didn’t knew what for function that icon had.
yep, try clicking on that, you will get some interesting info !
Thanks for the info I was really wondering what was with the world icon…..now I just want a reason why we have to drag the world icon to bookmark something and not the favorites icon which makes a lot more sense?
the bookmark icon is there on the right hand side, at the end of the navigation bar .. check it out !
Yeah I seen that, but what Im saying is why cant I drag that icon to the bookmarks bar and have to use the world icon instead?….makes alot more sense to me to use the icon that is associated with favourites
sorry, lil confused here .. did u mean dragging the globe or the star ?
click on the star, u get bookmark option
drag the globe to bookmarks bar, and u get it bookmarked.
I tried those two methods and worked for me .. can you please clarify ?
Just to clarify….
I meant, before we use to drag the star to make a bookmark which makes perfect sense seeming its to do with bookmarks. Now you have to drag the globe and dragging the star does nothing, which doesnt make sense to me.
click the star, hmm clicking the star makes more sense than dragging the star right ? because star is for bookmark, and globe is for the link, or the url, or the webpage, so, u drag it to the bookmarks area …
seems fine to me …
“click the star, hmm clicking the star makes more sense than dragging the star right ?”
No.
I like to drag the bookmarks in, not click the star and have to pick a folder and have chrome stick the new link at the bottom of that folder.
“and globe is for the link, or the url, or the webpage”
Even you dont know what its for ;P
Where as the star is for bookmarks in every way except when you want to drag the link into the bookmarks bar, in that case use the globe…..nope, doesnt make sense to me
I would still prefer the http there as I would want to know if its a https or http site. Just to make sure even if the ‘lock’ image is there.
I dont think this is something they will give an option to disable ..
@ PAEz
hmm not really
hihi
I meant, the globe is for many things
actually if you click on the globe while you are on a page, you will get a lot of info !
I didn’t knew you could drag that star (before the update). So I didn’t miss it. But now you say it, I think dragging makes sense. But only if you get a direct ‘name change’.
I also didnt know about dragging that star ! but, shortcut key CTRL D used to work for me.
anyhoo, they are making changes to keyboard shortcuts too. Earlier, bookmarks bar used to come with CTRL + B now, it has become CTRL + SHIFT + B
Well I hate it. Why not settle on something and leave it the hell alone?
OK I’ll admit, I didn’t like the other way either, but what I really object to are all the continuous changes. Figure it out and leave it alone FFS!
I just want to use the damn thing, not cock around with it figuring what you changed again.
Sounds like you really dislike change.
I have no problem adapting to change, especially when it benefits me (though I admit I didn’t realize the benefit fully until I adapted to the change).
I must admit that I find it strange that someone who chooses to utilize a newly emerging browser (someone willing to try something new) would complain so vehemently about very, very slight changes in the GUI of Chrome…
Weird.
Why has my google search settings now gone tits up? For years I have had it display 100 results from a search, now it only displays 10. I have reset many times to 100 and save preferences in search settings with no joy. Stll works fine with FF and IE but Chrome is my browser of choice. Grrr
It might be due to Google’s new “Google Instant”
http://www.google.com/instant/
This isn’t some groundbreaking revelation, it’s just a mind-numbing reduction to a lower common denominator. Not all change is good. Sometimes it’s OK to leave in the reminders of where we came from.
Forget my l;ast post all sorted now, quite clever actually I like the way it works.
that’s cool
:D
I tend to agree with Gene about leaving well alone, but I suppose we’ll get used to it. I wondered what was going on when that globe appeared and I was getting those messages and seeing red skulls and crossbones, I had no idea there was an update and wondered if I’d got some bug or other that was messing things up. An anti-virus scan didn’t come up with anything so I ran Windows system restore, it’s now back to the previous version. Being no computer expert, I’m assuming this is because I’ve removed the stuff that generated the update.
Perhaps this is an option others could try – of course I don’t know if what I’ve done will last, I guess Google are constantly doing ‘tweaks’ which will put it back to the updated version. I hope not, I was happy with it before!
Dave, if you need to run system restore once more, after reboot disable wifi or remove internet cable briefly. Run msconfig and disable google update on start tab. reboot and connect wifi or cables again, check your processes, is google update running? If so simply try deleting the googleupdate.exe file [C:\Users\yourname\AppData\Local\Google]
If not you may be able to stick a registry hack in to disable update, google it lots have done it previously. Last option would be to locate the download url for chrome updates and add it to your hosts file as such;
127.0.0.1 chrome.update.com “example”
That would then try to find the updates on your computer and not the update site. Not sure Google make the site public and using netstat doesnt reveal its name, if I find will post back.
gary, that’s a great idea!
I’m on a Mac, but since OS X is actually over Linux, I managed to gain access and manage privileges to my etc/hosts file. Being a long time microsoft guy, like since dos 3.1, it took a bit of head scratching and reading, but I can read.
There is a documentation for disabling automatic updates -
http://dev.chromium.org/administrators/turning-off-auto-updates
It is not a secret or anything.
But, generally, you really do not want to do this. You better just adapt to the changes, because not being up to date will significantly degrade your browsing experience, as well as your security.
Well, it lasted about 2 hours and it’s gone back to the new version!
They push it on you now, that’s what freaked. All of a sudden the bookmarks star moved, and there were no more http://'s. I’d prefer they’d fix the core so that things like [youtube] tags in php fora work, than fiddle with the interface. :rolleyes:
Gene, wait till we get used to things being this way and it’ll change again!
I am absolutely PUZZLED as to how they thought moving the bookmark star to the FAR RIGHT of the window made ANY sense. I do all my clicking going from tab to tab, hitting back and home, and closing tabs. I used to be able to hit a quick bookmark before closing the tab. Now? I have to move my finger (laptop) two times to the right, then twice to the left, to do so. I could use the keyboard shortcut, but WHY MAKE ME? Horrible design.
My guess is it has more to do with aesthetics than ergonomics, due to the newly added Globe (or Lock or Skull & Crossbones) icon being placed within the left-hand side of the address bar.
Gary, many thanks indeed for your advice, much appreciated. At the moment I’m seeing how it goes, and if I can get on with it. I just got very twitchy when I saw all that security stuff and red skulls! I didn’t realise this comments page existed, but I’m glad I found it, so some good came of it.
Like HopefulGhost, I’m finding the moving of the bookmark star to be an irritant.
http://blog.chromium.org/2010/06/fresh-coat-of-chrome.html
A brief explanation of “why” there was a change made to Chrome’s GUI.
Thank for the information. I was right panicking for a moment there. I really, really don’t like the changes and I rather wish the new setup could be optional (and if it is, I’d like to know how to revert it back!), but I suppose I have no choice but to get used to it.
Honestly, GC looks a lot uglier than it did before.
I know this is a bit late, but I’m really getting annoyed at the missing http://. The address is far too far to the left, and the whole thing looks unbalanced. I wish it was an option!
The other problem is that it copies differently than what it is displayed as. This makes it behave ambiguously, which is annoying.
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