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Good moves. Glad to see the URI scheme as a visible part of the URL.

Yes, I am currently annoyed several times a day when I copy/paste a domain from firefox and have to delete the http: from the front. Every time!!!

Edit: Looking again, I see they are not showing the scheme for non-secure sites. So the annoyance continues.

Suppose you just select the part that you want to copy instead of the whole mess?

This isn't a problem for me, but I have verified the behavior of the GP.

An example:

It displays as www.google.com.

If you select those characters, copy, and paste

you see http://www.google.com

You can't, that's the whole problem. If you want the beginning of the domain, it will automatically include the uri scheme. So you cannot copy foo.com, you will always paste http://foo.com. 95% I want foo.com.

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