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And the reason is?

Posted Nov 30, 2012 23:17 UTC (Fri) by Max.Hyre (subscriber, #1054)
In reply to: holy cow by jmclnx
Parent article: Security implications for user interface changes?

In all this conversation I see nothing about why the tabs were/should be moved. (When the change took place, I poked around until I found the ``Tabs on top'' box, and unchecked it. I'd forgotten its existence until just now.)

What's the thinking behind putting the address bar (is that what they call the ``awsome'' bar?) between tabs and the content they control?

Also, what vast pot of code spaghetti is going to be drained by removing a binary switch?

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And the reason is?

Posted Nov 30, 2012 23:33 UTC (Fri) by hummassa (subscriber, #307) [Link]

> What's the thinking behind putting the address bar (is that what they call the ``awsome'' bar?) between tabs and the content they control?

1. yes, the address bar is what they call the "awesome" bar because now it's also a search bar that can start searches on the text of the already-visited pages and you can also start searches on your favorite search provider (google, bing, duckduckgo, imdb...)

2. the rationale (started with Chrome IIRC) is that the address stated in the address bar belongs to the page being displayed (imagine if you had windows instead of tabs, each window has its address bar and toolbar... so does each "tab page" when you are using tabs. The address is not "between the tabs and the content", it is a part of the content.

And the reason is?

Posted Dec 1, 2012 13:28 UTC (Sat) by IkeTo (subscriber, #2122) [Link]

Then should the menu bar be below the tab bar? Perhaps the tab bar should really replace the title bar drawn by the WM. :-)

And the reason is?

Posted Dec 1, 2012 17:57 UTC (Sat) by hummassa (subscriber, #307) [Link]

> Perhaps the tab bar should really replace the title bar drawn by the WM

That's where it is in chrome...

And the reason is?

Posted Dec 2, 2012 2:46 UTC (Sun) by Max.Hyre (subscriber, #1054) [Link]

Thank you—now I understand. I don't agree, mind you...