Dropsafe Security, Privacy, Digital Rights, and Nerdy Parenthood I’ll try to put this in the simplest terms: The GoogleChrome team have unilaterally taken the user-interface decision to remove “http://” from the beginning of http-only URLs, leaving “https://” and “ftp://” and so forth in place, but for HTTP replacing it instead with a pretty blue-planet-earth-icon The result has been a wave of gee