But this will mean big changes in how and when Chrome displays URLs. " So we want to move toward a place where web identity is understandable by everyone - they know who they’re talking to when they’re using a website and they can reason about whether they can trust them. "They’re hard to read, it’s hard to know which part of them is supposed to be trusted, and in general I don’t think URLs are working as a good way to convey site identity," Adrienne Porter Felt, engineering manager at Google Chrome, told Wired. Some websites now have different domains to remember, like ".biz" or ".info," and since most people on smartphones usually can't see the entire URL they're visiting, it's easy for cybercriminals to trick people into thinking they're on a trusted website.įor these reasons and others, the Google Chrome team thinks it's time to come up with a better solution. Postscript 3: Google’s now blogged about the new feature.But while remembering some URLs can be easy - adding a ".com" to most business names usually does the trick - it's not perfect. To disable the feature entirely, click on the Wrench icon in the toolbar, then the Search tab, then the section called “Web-browsing tools” and then untick “Enable the Google new tab page.” Postscript 2: To remove a particular site, use the “Edit thumbnails” link at the bottom of the “Most visited” tab that appears. I also do NOT see a way to disable the new feature there. The functionality is only in Google Toolbar For Firefox 5 Beta. I kept downloading the non-beta version of the toolbar. However, when I’ve downloaded the toolbar, I’ve yet to get it work for me. Official news on the change is coming from Google shortly, but some people are already seeing the toolbar with the new functionality, as Google Blogoscoped notes. You’re also supposed to be able to individually prevent certain sites from showing. And if you clear your Firefox history, that also clears what’s used for creating the tabs. But Google tells me this can be disabled using the Google Toolbar’s Settings option. I find it annoying in Chrome that this cannot be disabled.
Of course, not everyone will like having all the sites they regularly visit showing up this way. With the update, if you open a new blank tab in Firefox, the sites you visit most often will be listed. Now Google has brought that to Firefox, via the latest Google Toolbar update now available. One of the key features of Google Chrome is how it will list the sites you regularly visit on your home page when the browser starts.
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