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Security implications for user interface changes?

Security implications for user interface changes?

Posted Dec 10, 2012 0:24 UTC (Mon) by cortana (subscriber, #24596)
In reply to: Security implications for user interface changes? by Baylink
Parent article: Security implications for user interface changes?

> The items they wish to move "inside" the framing of the tabs *are not items which are different on a per-tab basis*; those items *do not belong inside the tabs*.

They don't? The state of the back/forward/refresh buttons and address bar are different for each tab.


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Security implications for user interface changes?

Posted Dec 10, 2012 0:57 UTC (Mon) by hummassa (subscriber, #307) [Link]

Yeah, they are not "the global addressbar, stop/refresh button, back/forward button"... they are "that tab's addressbar and buttons".

Just imagine: if instead of opening a lot of tabs you just opened a lot of windows, each window would have its addressbar and buttons. Then, if you use a tabbing window manager (that groups windows of the same program in tabs), then you would have exactly what Firefox and Chrome has today.

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