So I just upgraded to the newest dev channel version of chrome and they’ve gone and made some changes. First off, the address bar hides “http://”. It shows the protocol for everything else, but just hides “http://” for simple web browsing. The other significant change is that you can now enable plugins for your anonymous browsing sessions. I won’t go into detail on why that is uber awesome. If you’re tech savvy, you should already know. I really don’t think I’ll ever go back to firefox at this point. Chrome just has everything I need and does its job very very fast. The only browser I haven’t really experimented with is Opera, but now that the opera iphone app is out I should probably give it a shot.
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see there’s some nerd cred coming back. When I tell people I run the nightly builds of chromium, they say ‘what the f#$% is wrong with you’
As for the disappearance of the http – it’s about time they got rid of that, I can’t tell you how many times I’ve heard people say “Oh I found it online at “h t t p slash slash w w w dot” – those people are wasting my time!
And this makes way for googles spdy://google.com without many people saying what the hell.
dude, i totally forgot about spdy! what a great observation. this truly does make way for google to roll out spdy to chrome users in an unobtrusive manner. hell yea man
we’ll have to talk shop about chrome one day and exchange our extension lists.
Yeah, i like to think i’m on top of shit.
Extensions = 0! in fact i have all the plugins turned off (except the two google updates for the nightly’s). i keep it speedy as hell – I do use the bookmark sync to docs.