CC tommycli@, who worked on this feature.

I think this is intended, as we can omit the "http://" for http URLs because the omnibox does http by default and it's always nice to remove unnecessary (redundant) junk.  So, there is a reason; it's just not that obvious of a reason.  That said, inconsistency in itself can be irritating.  Let's see what they say.

To add on to my previous reply:

We've always hidden the http:// in the omnibox; it's just that now that we distinguish between steady-state and editing-state, and we hide/unhide the HTTPS during that transition does it make it strange that we don't do the same thing for HTTP.

Agreed, this behavior is odd. Assigning to tommycli to figure out what to do. cc-ing groby.

Hey -

It's working exactly as intended. We show the scheme for https:// in edit mode, and continue to omit it for http://.

In the future https-default world, we'd like to do the reverse.

Marking working-as-intended. +cc emilyschecter