This works for Google because they want you to only use Chrome. That's how Google engineers work. For the rest of us, it's a reminder of how increasingly trou

This works for Google because they want you to only use Chrome. That's how Google engineers work. For the rest of us, it's a reminder of how increasingly troublesome it is that window managers are tied to the OS, and (on 2/3 of the major OSs) locked down so any third parties that want to innovate here are limited to doing it only for their own application. This looks like just the sort of thing Dan Ingalls meant when he said "We in computer software insist on stepping on the toes of those who came before us instead of climbing on their shoulders".