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The way Opera hides http:// is a nice touch (edit: because they avoided copy&paste problem that Chrome has), but such addressbar style has been pioneered by Firefox (extensions) and Chrome.

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Dunno about Chrome but I don't have the copy and paste problem in Chromium 9.0.584.0 (66224) Ubuntu 10.10. Since Chrome is released from the same base, either it should already be there or would be there in the future releases.

The problem people complain about is that when you try to copy domain name alone (e.g. to ssh to it) http:// gets copied unexpectedly. It's a feature that for some is a bug.

Opera avoided the issue by showing full URL when you focus addressbar, so you see what you're copying and can edit protocol part.

It's not. It breaks copy and paste.

Have you tried it? it doesn't.. when the focus is on the address bar it reverts to the whole URL.

Then they fixed it since last month.

This feature didn't exist last month -- it was added publicly on november 17th, in other words two days ago.

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