Google Chrome getting rid of http://

Posted on April 19th, 2010 in Web Browsers

Google has decided to get rid of http:// in the address bar of the developer version of Google Chrome.

Not many of use who use the web these days type http:// before typing in the URL and Google has decided that they don’t need to display the Hypertext Transfer Protocol (http) in the address bar no longer. Google has made this official because they made the move without informing developers and some developers reported it as a bug. Is this a sign of whats to come for browsers? I see that this could cause a problem for users that copy the URL and paste it as a link or in another browser.  I guess this is why Google has only made this change for the developer version.