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Classic Snake game now playable in your browser URL address bar — JavaScript remake uses Unicode Braille characters to render the game

A new version of Snake, coded to run in your browser’s URL address bar, makes playing it on your old Nokia brick feel ...
Gizmodo

Google’s Really Trying to Kill The URL Bar

There was talk a few months back of a compact mode in Chrome that would turn the URL bar into a contextual element. Now it’s seeping into early builds of Chrome 13 ...
The Next Web

Chrome Canary build adds a sweet hiding URL bar

The newer builds of Chrome 13 have added a nice feature for anyone working form a laptop or netbook with a small screen: Chrome’s Canary build now allows you to show and hide the URL bar with the ...
PC Magazine

Mozilla Launches Revamped Firefox for Android, With the URL Bar on the Bottom

The new Firefox for Android is faster and can block third-party trackers by default. But Mozilla faces complaints from some who are upset with the redesign and the lack of supported third-party ...
Tech Zone 360

Life without the URL Bar? It May Happen

Since the beginnings of the Internet, we have become accustomed to having the URL bar be a permanent part of the browser window – always ready and available to navigate the user to their desired Web ...
NBC Bay Area

Google Is Thinking About Killing the URL Bar

Google, the unofficial overlord of the web is always trying to "do no evil," but if an internal document bears any truth, the search giant might do lots of it by killing the URL address bar in its ...
PC World

Chrome, Firefox Experiment With Hidden URL Bars

Netbook and tablet users looking for more screen space to display content from their favorite websites are getting some help from a pair of popular Internet browsers. Google and Mozilla are testing ...
Wired

Chrome 8 Adds Google Instant to the URL Bar

Google's Chrome development team has pushed a pre-release version of Chrome 8 into the dev channel for those that would like an early look at the next version of the Chrome web browser. While far from ...
Macworld

Change Firefox 3’s URL bar behavior

Mozilla, makers of Firefox, a popular alternative to Safari on many users’ machines, will very shortly release Firefox 3—the product is currently at release candidate stage, which typically means a ...
PC World

Kill Your Browser’s Address Bar? Pros and Cons

Google Chrome and Mozilla Firefox are working on deemphasizing your browser’s address bar to maximize screen space and put the focus on web apps instead of websites. Both browser makers are looking to ...
Android Police

Google resumes its attack on the URL bar, hides full addresses on Chrome 86

Corbin is a tech journalist and developer who worked at Android Police from 2016 until 2021. Check out his other work at corbin.io. Google has tried on and off for years to hide full URLs in Chrome's ...
Ars Technica

Google is messing with the address bar again—new experiment hides URL path

It looks like Google is trying to mess with the URL bar again. As spotted by Android Police, new flags in the developer versions of the popular browser now want to hide the URL path. So for an article ...