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Google Tests Curvy Chrome Tabs With Material Design Overhaul (cnet.com)

Posted by msmash on from the shape-of-things-to-come dept.

Google is trying out a new Chrome interface that for the first time in a decade presents a very different look for the tabs and address bar at the top of the widely used web browser, CNET reports. It adds: Since its public debut in 2008, Chrome has featured a trapezoidal tab for each website you have open. But tabs now look very different on Chrome Canary -- a very rough-around-the-edges version used to test changes before they reach a broader audience. The active tab has a slope-shouldered look with curved corners. The grayed-out inactive tabs merge with the the browser itself and are separated only by thin vertical lines. In addition, the address bar's text box is a gray oval against a white backdrop, instead of a round-cornered white rectangle with a hairline border.

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  1. Re:Material and modern design, DIE. by AbRASiON · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Oh and while I'm at it.

    I know someone (kinda / tangentially) on the Chrome Dev Team and asked them to consider fixing the damn full screen mode.

    On FireFox, if you hit F11, it's beautiful and large, yet if you hit "CTRL-D" you can still DO STUFF, type in URLs, CTRL T works for a new tab, etc, you can browse in this giant beautiful relaxing window, without seeing your tabs most of the time. I don't use it often but sometimes it's nice.

    I said "Why does Chromes full screen mode have to render the browser, virtually useless" and the answer was very Apple-esque "our way, or the highway" kind of thing.

    Groan, not surprising though.