Lack of MRU tab order for Control Tab behavior is just one way in which I've been becoming increasingly unhappy with UI developments in Chrome. In looking into

Lack of MRU tab order for Control Tab behavior is just one way in which I've been becoming increasingly unhappy with UI developments in Chrome. In looking into it, I found a developer's blog entry explaining that it is a design decision; they don't see how MRU fits into their conception of work flow or how to achieve a "perfect" implementation (sorry, I don't have the URL for that entry at hand). With... v6, I think, of Chrome, they changed the padlock / SSL-TLS designation appearance, to my eye making it less clear when a site is secure. Such UI paradigms take a long time to establish themselves in (non-technical) users' minds, so particularly for security-focused ones, you shouldn't go changing them willy-nilly -- it defeats their primary purpose. (Separately, their own properties break their secure channel at times by including non-secured resources.) Rightly or wrongly, in the lack of a more thorough analysis, this has my intuition tweaking. I'm starting to feel jerked around by decisions such as these. (And a corresponding one-way nature of communication, or outright lack of communication, on the matters.) I know, "looking a gift horse in the mouth". Keeping engineers busy engineering as opposed to "'splaining". And this is a feeling, not an analysis. So I won't claim the high ground, here. OTOH: Chrome has keep a family member's older laptop functional, where otherwise it probably would have been retired (Opera's recent speed improvements might now also compensate, but a number of sites they use fail in Opera while working in Chrome.)