Chrome is copying Firefox now?

marczellm

https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/google/google-is-testing-a-new-chrome-ui/

Gąska

cheong

Btw, there's already quite some shared code for these two browsers.

Say, both of them uses Project Necko to provide cross-platform networking capabilities.

(I found that a few days ago when trying to visit UAT web server binded to port 87, and then both Chrome and Firefox refused to connect, and I can only visit with IE)

bb36e

I understand that this is in development/testing, but does the spacing around the right side of the bar, when combined with that border, look really weird?

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I guess i'm just not a fan of google's new * { border-radius: 50%; } Design Language™…

marczellm

@gąska I just find it funny that with both the Australis and Photon redesigns, Firefox is slammed for copycatting Chrome, and now Chrome is making its tabs look like the ones that Firefox just ditched.

pie_flavor

Well, I'm trying it, and I'm not sure I like it. They've moved the new tab button over here:
https://i.imgur.com/xajK9ts.png
And my taskbar is on the left side of the screen, so it's hard to hit. Not that I click it when keyboard shortcuts exist, but still.
Edit: I apparently use it more than I thought I did. That design choice is starting to bother me.

Tsaukpaetra

@pie_flavor said in Chrome is copying Firefox now?:

That design choice is starting to bother me.

That didn't take very long...

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El_Heffe

@marczellm said in Chrome is copying Firefox now?:

@gąska I just find it funny that with both the Australis and Photon redesigns, Firefox is slammed for copycatting Chrome, and now Chrome is making its tabs look like the ones that Firefox just ditched.

I think it was inevitable. When you've made a commitment that you are going to put out a new version of your browser every few weeks, it doesn't take long before you are making changes just for the sake of making changes.

Steve_The_Cynic

@cheong said in Chrome is copying Firefox now?:

Btw, there's already quite some shared code for these two browsers.

Say, both of them uses Project Necko to provide cross-platform networking capabilities.

(I found that a few days ago when trying to visit UAT web server binded to port 87, and then both Chrome and Firefox refused to connect, and I can only visit with IE)

Wait, what? So you gave "http://uat.example.com:87/some/page/or/other.html" and both Chrome and Firefox barfed, but IE worked? That's ... lame.

What did they do instead?

Gąska

@pie_flavor said in Chrome is copying Firefox now?:

Well, I'm trying it, and I'm not sure I like it. They've moved the new tab button over here:
https://i.imgur.com/xajK9ts.png

The funniest part is that Firefox didn't do that.

Tsaukpaetra

@steve_the_cynic said in Chrome is copying Firefox now?:

@cheong said in Chrome is copying Firefox now?:

Btw, there's already quite some shared code for these two browsers.

Say, both of them uses Project Necko to provide cross-platform networking capabilities.

(I found that a few days ago when trying to visit UAT web server binded to port 87, and then both Chrome and Firefox refused to connect, and I can only visit with IE)

Wait, what? So you gave "http://uat.example.com:87/some/page/or/other.html" and both Chrome and Firefox barfed, but IE worked? That's ... lame.

What did they do instead?

I'm assuming pop a dinosaur.

cheong

@steve_the_cynic said in Chrome is copying Firefox now?:

Wait, what? So you gave "http://uat.example.com:87/some/page/or/other.html" and both Chrome and Firefox barfed, but IE worked? That's ... lame.

What did they do instead?

Do the logical thing... use port 88 instead.

boomzilla

@pie_flavor said in Chrome is copying Firefox now?:

They've moved the new tab button over here:

Do new tabs push old tabs to the right? That does seem weird. It smells of, "It's easier to have this in a static position" laziness.

pie_flavor

@boomzilla They don't. New tabs open in their normal farthest-right location. Which is twice as dumb as otherwise, because what the hell is the button doing all the way over there then?