Google to Remove http:// From Future Chrome

[Chris_TC]

[citation][nom]brendano257[/nom]I only type "tomshardware.com" etc. Haven't done anything differently for years, except for FTP or HTTPS of course...[/citation]
I only type "t". Tomshardware is first in the list of websites that come up.

 

[micky_lund]

bookmarks are the way to go...dont type anything

 

[randomizer]

Google is really messing with the internets now.

 

[ltgrunt]

Personally, I'll either take the Ctrl+Enter shortcut or type out the full address, including the http:// (or ftp://, etc.). But I'm an old hand at this Internet stuff, and old habits can be hard to break.

As far as whether or not this is a good idea and whether it is inconsistent to drop the http:// but not any of the other protocol prefixes, the answer comes in looking outside of our tech-savvy but admittedly rare perspectives. The vast majority of Internet users don't know or understand that there even is anything other than http://. My mom isn't going to be browsing to an ftp:// address - my mom doesn't even know what the hell FTP is or that it even exists. Her reaction - and this is going to be the mainstream reaction - is going to be "hey, neat, I don't have to type as much now," and that's pretty much how it should be.

 

[motamedn]

all about chrome here. like Chris_TC says, the address bar in chrome is "smart" and automatically pulls up your most common results as you type. I just need a 't' for tomshardware.com/us. 'g' brings me to google and 'gm' to gmail. its really great.

You could certainly do this for years but I hope others follow suit and drop the http:// ; just leaave functionality to manually type https or ftp and we're all good!

 

[Regulas]

Most browsers don't need the www typed in either.

 

[tommysch]

[citation][nom]ltgrunt[/nom]Personally, I'll either take the Ctrl+Enter shortcut or type out the full address, including the http:// (or ftp://, etc.). But I'm an old hand at this Internet stuff, and old habits can be hard to break.As far as whether or not this is a good idea and whether it is inconsistent to drop the http:// but not any of the other protocol prefixes, the answer comes in looking outside of our tech-savvy but admittedly rare perspectives. The vast majority of Internet users don't know or understand that there even is anything other than http://. My mom isn't going to be browsing to an ftp:// address - my mom doesn't even know what the hell FTP is or that it even exists. Her reaction - and this is going to be the mainstream reaction - is going to be "hey, neat, I don't have to type as much now," and that's pretty much how it should be.[/citation]

The eternal September will never ends...

 

[tburns1]

Whenever I type the word "the", it's automatically replaced by "I am SATAN!!!!". Odd feature. I think maybe someone messed with my spell checker ...

 

[bildo123]

[citation][nom]Upendra09[/nom]i just do web address and ctrl, enterlike sotomshardware, ctrl+enter -> www.tomshardware.com[/citation]

I remember finding out how to do this when IE5/6 had the 'daily tips' at the bottom, been using it ever since, it's awesome.

 

[Maxor127]

I think it's retarded to get rid of. Of course no one needs to type it, but it has a purpose, and should be displayed at all times. Seems like a needless and annoying change to me. Dumbing down and making something simpler isn't always the best idea.

 

[tosvus]

heck, I'm even to lazy to go to the sites to search. In Firefox address bar, you can type "wiki snowboarding" to get an article an article on snowboarding, or "rotten matrix" to see the ratings for the matrix.

 

[hellwig]

Just so everyone knows, the "WWW" is site-dependant. I turn off "www" on all my domains, I hate it, and it doesn't mean anything anyway. Seriously, http://tomshardware.com COULD be a valid webaddress if they set it up to be. Instead, the webserver redirects it to www.tomshardware.com.

In my opinion, the http:// is more important than the www. The http:// specifies the protocol (as opposed to ftp:// for instance, which most web-browsers can understand). On the other hand, www is just a meaningless prefix. You could make it wxy.tomshardware, 123456.tomshardware, toms.tomshardware, etc... It just another piece of the address.

Anyone remember realnames? For a while there, IE was integrating realnames into its addressbar, so typing microsoft would resolve to http://www.microsoft.com for you (it will anyway if you use Opera or some other browsers). Anyway, realnames died when IE dropped that support, and thus went the world of simple-to-remember domains. Seriously, who wants to remember http: vs. https, or www vs. www2, or .com vs. .net? The whole system is flawed.

 

[onsiteone]

it's been a couple years since i remember typing "www". Actually I rarely type full internet addresses at all on a daily basis since I rely so much on the auto-complete and url suggestions right from the address bar of the browser. =)

 

[eddieroolz]

I still want http:// but I've been living without www for a while.

 

[reklatsa]

Tim Berners-Lee always regretted that annoyance. A simple colon would have sufficed. Anyway, I only type the first letter of a web address and Safari auto-fills. HTTPS is not a problem as Safari has built-in anti-phishing.

 

[cigraphics]

i always write the address like site.tld. but i hate when i have to add a port because i have to write with http://site.tld😛ort. if i write site.tld😛ort it will go to google search

 

[Guest]

NOOOOOOOOOOOOOO! Dead links everywhere!!! When people copy and paste to post onto their websites. BAD!