This change to me feels very touch-oriented. If you're touching a standard browser's URL bar, you might touch a tab instead (and vice-versa). But if you put th

This change to me feels very touch-oriented. If you're touching a standard browser's URL bar, you might touch a tab instead (and vice-versa). But if you put them on the same horizontal plane, this problem is solved. And from a touch perspective, the URL bar has a ton of wasted space; you don't need more than the length of your average URL as a touch target, so all the horizontal space that comes after it is essentially unused. I think this is yet another way in which Apple is preparing to make macOS touch-enabled.