The reason behind this change is obvious: the URL scheme bears little meaning to most people using a browser – they know it’s there and how to type it, but it doesn’t indicate anything to them. The solution here is decidedly simple: those will still be shown. Another thing that you should be wondering about now is what they do with other schemes like ftp, https, and gopher. Google claims to have solved this issue by adding the scheme to your clipboard when you copy and paste URLs from the URL field, however, this behaviour is currently broken in many clipboard implementations. The first thing that jumped into my mind was this: some applications, whether they be web or real ones, actually require you to add the scheme (for instance, to autoparse URLs). Bug reports were filed, and in true internet fashion, discussion ensued.Ī few things need to be made clear about Chrome’s implementation of this feature. The developer version of Google Chrome takes this a step further, and omits the scheme completely. On Mobile Safari, the scheme is hidden until you tap the URL field to edit. We all know and love Google Chrome/Chromium (and if you don’t, you’re demonstrably wrong), but Google recently made a change in the developer version that ruffled some feathers: the URL field will no longer show the “ This made a lot of people very upset.įor a while now, Mobile Safari has been doing something similar, although I do think in that case, it’s about saving space. Now this is something that I find really interesting.