The Next-Generation Browser: No URL Bar

LOL! That's funny!

 

The idea is to maximize real estate for advertising purposes. And to put feathers in hats. New and improved, like dish soap every year. You as a user of the browser are not a design priority.

 

Sounds a whole lot like a baseless accusation.

Perhaps they want to increase screen realestate because *gasp* users want more screen realestate!

It's like this is really a capitalist society.

 

Well this thread was resurrected from the grave Real estate is fine, but, using Chrome as an example, you can't get much more space without resorting to punching F11. I'm not sure what else users would want taken out. I'd also ask what exactly are they wanting to see so much of that the current crop of browsers blocks that badly?

 

You'll know once you own a netbook or something smaller. Mine's 6-inch vertical space (1024x600).

 

^^That.

I'd love if Chrome would shave off as many pixels from the screen as possible. I personally use a thin scrollbar in Chrome just because it saves me something like 10 pixels.

 

I don't use a scrollbar at all .

 

Browsers should be just a window like the IE platform preview. Who needs a UI! Pah!

 

I tried this a couple of times before, but the obvious disadvantages outweigh any real estate gained: you can't gauge your current position on a given web page (especially if it's vertically long) nor do you know how long the page is to know how much further you need to scroll down. It's like you purposely set yourself up for a handicap.

 

Ditto. I need the vertical scrollbar.

 

Same here. But mine is 3 pixels or something like that.

 

5 px for me.

 

I tried an add-on for FF 3.6 that makes them both one. When you type or paste a URL it functions as a URL bar, otherwise it's a search bar. I kinda liked it but there were some issues which I don't exactly recall now, but it was enough to make me go back. I think theoretically it could be a good idea if done right so you don't lose anything in the process.

 

It isn't too much of a handicap for me, I can scroll down and find out just fine. As for specific locations, I use Ctrl+F.

 

Totally stupid!!

Wouldnt be anywhere as easy to surf!

 

I completely get the netbook/smartphone argument. I can't stand surfing the net on those things. But, I'm hoping ideas such as this will apply only to the market where it's actually needed, the mobile market, on mobile browsers.

 

Agreed. I run 1920x1200 on my laptop and desktop. I don't need features removed there. Mobile browsers should be separate products and they can strip those to the bare nothing all they want.

 

Right now I'm using a 15" laptop, and I'm enjoying Chromium's Compact Navigation. Unfortunately, newest builds removed this feature, and it appears that Chromium developers have no intentions of bringing it back. If they ever consider it again, it seems it will be something different. Something like IE Platform Preview? lol

I seriously got no idea of what they could remove/hide from Chromium's UI The tabs? Perhaps also the Wrench menu? The scrollbar as well?

I also don't think it's necessary to take away features. Simply give the choice of hiding them.

That's what Compact Navigation was all about. Those who wanted it, could enable it. Those who didn't want it, didn't have to enable it.

 

Compact navigation is in Canary in about:flags.

 

I don't keep up with Google Chrome canary or parrot.

But, it will eventually loose it. Unless Chromium developers have a change of heart.

Google/Bing/etc for chromium compact navigation. You should get two hits, at least.

 

Googling that doesn't give me any results indicating that it's gone.

Anyways, features in Chromium often come and go, I doubt it's gone for good...

 

Sometimes we need to look for the answers we want. They aren't always in front of our eyes.

-http://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=83602

-http://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=85184

To save you some time, read the last posts on those links.

 

Yeah, those were definitely not on my front page haha remember that Google results are different for different people...

Anyways, I'm happy about this. The fact that it hid extensions was stupid. They should have done what the Firefox extension does, which is to hide the entire bar and only bring it up when your mouse goes to it or when you hit Ctrl + L.

Important to note. I doubt the entire project is scrapped, just this (in my opinion poor) implementation.