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[Vaielab]

So, if you are using firefox, and updated to the new version (7.0.1) you can notice, the url don't start with http:// anymore.
Maybe it was already like that in older version, but I just noticed it.

Everytime I look at the url, I feel like the url isn't complete.
I am the only one who feel like that?

I miss my http, we've been together for so long!

[lethalwire]

https:// is still alive!

[RhetoricalRuvim]

I, like a month ago, upgraded to the latest version of Firefox, and I didn't like a lot of things about it; I don't remember by now, but this might have been one of the things that I did not like. So I downgraded back to version 3.6 .

Right now I have Firefox/3.6.23, and it does display the http.


By the way, that's one of the things I really don't like about Chrome; I type [NOPARSE]http://www.google.com/[/NOPARSE] and Chrome just changes all that typing to mere [NOPARSE]www.google.com[/NOPARSE] . It's so 'not professional' .

[Vaielab]

I read a article a cople of month ago when they were talking about removing the http, and it was because since it's a web browser, almost 99.5% of everything is http (or https), the other 0.5% is ftp, or other protocol that normally you have specialised software to do so.
This is the reason why they removed it, and it's normal, it's like if we had the port 80 on every url, it dosen't make sens.
I understand why they do it, but I still think it's weird :P

[RhetoricalRuvim]

I still want to have the http at the top, even though most of the web is HTTP; it's just more professional that way, and I don't want to get used to no-http URLs.

[Vaielab]

Well, since firefox & chrome does it, I guess the other will soon do it too...
Soon you'll be forced to forget the http... and when you'll be old, you will tell your grand child about the famous http, and they will look at you like you are crazy :P

Yup, I'm gonna be the craziest of the crazy

[RhetoricalRuvim]

I still think Firefox 3.6 would probably stay with the HTTP; if not, and if other browsers would start switching over, - oh, and if I don't change my mind about the HTTP - then I'll be forced to write my own browser, and use some old browser in the meantime (such as IE 6 :D or Netscape Navigator).

[Vaielab]

Sure, write your own broswer... I'm guessing it will be 100% compatible with html5 and css3 :P
You could always use lynx browser

[RhetoricalRuvim]

Well, I did say that was if there is not a good browser that still has the HTTP at the top; I do hope that that won't happen, because writing a browser isn't the easiest thing in the world.

Though, depending on how far I get with my operating system development, I might write one anyway.

[Vaielab]

Your writing a os?!
I hope it is not in assembly.
If so... well you might be the crisiest after all :P

[RhetoricalRuvim]

Not in assembly? Seriously? Assembly is the only option for me, at this point.

And when I do get something more stable, there aren't really any compilers for my operating system yet; so I have the option of either writing my own compiler, or writing things in assembly. I don't know any compilers that compile code into flat binary (like NASM's -fbin format).

[Alexander]

You young folks are too impatient. You can always go to about:config -> browser.urlbar.* (i.e. trimURLs) and modify that to false.