[mbelshe]

No, this is pure conspiracy theory. :-)

The decision to drop "http:// from the display was a UI decision and had nothing to do with the internals. The idea is that the "http:// is just user-confusion. Most users can't spell HTTP, much less know why it is there. Why do we subject our poor users to it? Personally, I don't care.

Chrome does not recognize "spdy://" as a protocol scheme, and the UI display changes nothing with respect to how chrome selects protocols.