Wanted: For Crimes Against Tabs Everywhere
By Adrian Sutton
Ok seriously, we’ve got to stop this tabs on top thing before it spreads any further. That top bit of a window – it’s for dragging the window around and I really don’t want to have to watch carefully to see where I’m clicking in case I accidentally change tabs or grab a tab and throw it headlong into it’s own window. With Chrome I told myself it was justifiable because all the tabs are separate processes so clearly each process rendered it’s own toolbar and UI so essentially the tabs had to be at the top. This justification is of course rubbish but it made me feel better. Besides, Chrome is a Windows-only browser and they do all kinds of stupid things like that over there. Clearly that would never fly on Mac…
Bugger. The one saving grace is that it does solve the odd tab dragging modes that John Gruber so rightly complained about a while back. Well, that and the fact that the other improvements are really very nice and it is indeed lightning fast.