What do you want: Better security or long URLs?
Phishers might have a tougher time hooking victims if a new feature introduced into the experimental strain of Google's Chrome browser makes it into a future full release.
The "origin-chip" feature cleans up Chrome's omnibox -- or address bar -- by removing lengthy URLs and replacing them with just the domain name shorn of "htttp://" and "www". There's also the "origin chip" that produces the full URL.
Apple introduced a similar arrangement in Safari on iOS 7.
Google has tested the feature in beta versions of Chrome, but users didn't care for it and it was subsequently relegated to a default "off" state in later updates to the experimental Chrome fork, "Canary".
Much opposition to the feature centred on disorientation it caused to users who wandered lost on the internet unsure of what pages they were perusing, despite that URLs can be viewed with a click.
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