# What's Up With The Colors On My Google Address Bar?

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-up-with-the-colors-on-my-google-address-bar/611834>\
**Category:** Factual Questions\
**Created:** [February 5, 2012, 6:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-up-with-the-colors-on-my-google-address-bar/611834 "2012-02-05T06:11:49Z")\
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**Author:** ![Quasimodem](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/q/e274bd/32.png) [@Quasimodem](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Quasimodem)\
**Post date:** [February 5, 2012, 6:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-up-with-the-colors-on-my-google-address-bar/611834/1 "2012-02-05T06:11:49Z")

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I tried finding this out by googling it, but came up with zilch.

Anyway, the address bar can be yellow, grey, purple and green and just a while ago, it was a mix between yellow and black, producing a kind of “gold”.

Can anyone explain this, please?

Thanks

Q

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**Author:** ![Yorikke](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/yorikke/32/4335_2.png) [@Yorikke](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Yorikke)\
**Post date:** [February 5, 2012, 6:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-up-with-the-colors-on-my-google-address-bar/611834/2 "2012-02-05T06:21:24Z")

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What browser? Do you mean the part circled in red in this image? :

[Address bar Chrome](http://i305.photobucket.com/albums/nn210/hrhomer/Untitled-7.jpg)

If so, I’ve never seen it in any other color than white (normal) or blue (text highlit)

Joe

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**Author:** ![BeaMyra](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/2bfe46/32.png) [@BeaMyra](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BeaMyra)\
**Post date:** [February 5, 2012, 7:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-up-with-the-colors-on-my-google-address-bar/611834/3 "2012-02-05T07:02:39Z")

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[Wikipedia](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Address_bar) show examples: is this what you mean?

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**Author:** ![Quasimodem](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/q/e274bd/32.png) [@Quasimodem](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Quasimodem)\
**Post date:** [February 5, 2012, 9:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-up-with-the-colors-on-my-google-address-bar/611834/4 "2012-02-05T09:16:19Z")

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I use IE9, **george** , and your red line runs _through_ the colors I was talking about (yours is grey at present) at the top.

Yes, **BeaMyra** , that looks right, and it does mention the colors. My PayPal links do always show green, for instance and I have seen all the colors I mentioned in the OP, and I suspected it was degrees of security, but wasn’t sure.

Thank you both!

Quasi