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display protocol in address bar?
Posted: Fri Jan 24, 2014 3:16 pm
by gordon451
Is there any way Iron can by default display the protocol (http, https, etc) in the address bar as we type the URL?
For example (Iron 27.0.1500) if I type "eztv" the address bar will show "eztv.it", and the drop-down may show "eztv.it/search" etc, but the "{http:// | https://}" is never shown.
Can this be done? Is there a tweak or extension?
Gordon.
Re: display protocol in address bar?
Posted: Sat Jan 25, 2014 7:49 pm
by mapx
there is an issue opened on the chromium issue tracker, but I guess they will not go back (Status: WontFix from 2010)
http://code.google.com/p/chromium/issue ... l?id=41467
Re: display protocol in address bar?
Posted: Sun Jan 26, 2014 6:14 am
by gordon451
Hmmmmmm.
There used to be a time, not so long ago, when we chose the browser which pleased us the most.
But now we choose the browser which offends us the least.
I don't expect closed-source developments to be democracies. But I do remember when Microsoft listened to the multitudes complaining about IE3, and Netscape decided that it should copy IE3 into Nescape 4. . . And we wound up with a brilliant IE4 which set the tone of browsers for a decade, while Netscape crashed and nearly burned...
Chromium isn't the only offender. Try Page Setup>A4 in Firefox. That one is over 10 years old, and affects every Gecko fork.
Oh well, I suppose Microsoft will sort out their IE troubles sooner or later, and we'll have a decent browser again.
Gordon.