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Here’s How to Disable Google Chrome’s Confusing New URL Hiding Scheme (Lauren Weinstein)
"Confusing" is not the word I would use.
Update: Http, https, www, or m may or may not be hidden in the Chrome address bar, depending on whether or not Eric Schmidt's company has decided to postpone its URL-hiding scheme. Commenters are almost unanimously against it but that won't be the deciding factor. Like the honey badger, a monopoly just goes where it wants.