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That's one of the things I despise about Chrome... plus the fact that it doesn't have a title bar at all. They taking exactly the things that make Chrome less u

That's one of the things I despise about Chrome... plus the fact that it doesn't have a title bar at all. They taking exactly the things that make Chrome less usable to me and putting them in Firefox. /sigh

abenga 13y ago
It's right there in the settings: (in Chrome) Settings > Appearance > "Use system title bar and borders". edit: clarified I meant Chrome.
- OrsenPike 13y ago
  Not on Windows :/
- narsil 13y ago
  Not on my Mac. Am I missing something?
  - serzz 13y ago
    It is available on Chromium (Linux)
  - tsm 13y ago
    What are you missing on your Mac? It has the system title bar, the system-provided x, -, and + buttons, and (on my Mountain Lion, at least), the system-provided full-screen button in the top-right. What more could there be?
    - RHSeeger 13y ago
      > What more could there be? A full height title bar with the title of the current tab in it that I can use to drag the window around. Having to precisely aim my mouse pointer in order to drag my window is extremely annoying.
k__ 13y ago
I read about people who like their tabs on the left, because they have so many. Opera allows this AFAIK. But why do you think the Firefox tab placement is better?
- progrock 13y ago
  If you get tab happy, tabs are really difficult to navigate in Firefox without and extension, and I've tried most of the popular tab extensions - and have yet to find anything I like (that works without some bug). Chrome and Opera squeeze the tabs, but list them all, whereas Firefox forces a scroll after so many, which feels horrible. Also Opera has let's you list and switch open tabs with CTRL+TAB, or lets you reposition your tabs. Really though managing tabs should be left to the window manager. Otherwise you just get inconsistant behaviour between applications. That's when the title comes into it's own.
  - pcwalton 13y ago
    > Chrome and Opera squeeze the tabs, but list them all, whereas Firefox forces a scroll after so many, which feels horrible. Also Opera has let's you list and switch open tabs with CTRL+TAB, or lets you reposition your tabs. I use this tiny add-on, written by one of the main Firefox front end developers: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-us/firefox/addon/custom-tab-width/ https://addons.mozilla.org/en-us/firefox/addon/custom-tab-wi... It makes Firefox have the Chrome behavior of making tabs shrink infinitely. All it does it tweak one minor setting in the UI, so it's pretty bulletproof.
    - progrock 13y ago
      Thanks for that! Actually it still introduces the scroller at some point, but is slightly better.
tsm 13y ago
[Replying here due to HN's threading limits. This is in response to https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5825892 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5825892] Anyway, I fail to see a significant difference between Finder and Chrome's appearance: http://i.imgur.com/sgfMXOy.png http://i.imgur.com/sgfMXOy.png If Chrome was full of tabs, the ~20px area to drag the window around is arguably a bit small, but it'd look ridiculous if there was a huge margin above the tabs.

abenga 13y ago

It's right there in the settings: (in Chrome) Settings > Appearance > "Use system title bar and borders". edit: clarified I meant Chrome.

OrsenPike 13y ago
Not on Windows :/
narsil 13y ago
Not on my Mac. Am I missing something?
- serzz 13y ago
  It is available on Chromium (Linux)
- tsm 13y ago
  What are you missing on your Mac? It has the system title bar, the system-provided x, -, and + buttons, and (on my Mountain Lion, at least), the system-provided full-screen button in the top-right. What more could there be?
  - RHSeeger 13y ago
    > What more could there be? A full height title bar with the title of the current tab in it that I can use to drag the window around. Having to precisely aim my mouse pointer in order to drag my window is extremely annoying.

k__ 13y ago

I read about people who like their tabs on the left, because they have so many. Opera allows this AFAIK. But why do you think the Firefox tab placement is better?

progrock 13y ago
If you get tab happy, tabs are really difficult to navigate in Firefox without and extension, and I've tried most of the popular tab extensions - and have yet to find anything I like (that works without some bug). Chrome and Opera squeeze the tabs, but list them all, whereas Firefox forces a scroll after so many, which feels horrible. Also Opera has let's you list and switch open tabs with CTRL+TAB, or lets you reposition your tabs. Really though managing tabs should be left to the window manager. Otherwise you just get inconsistant behaviour between applications. That's when the title comes into it's own.
- pcwalton 13y ago
  > Chrome and Opera squeeze the tabs, but list them all, whereas Firefox forces a scroll after so many, which feels horrible. Also Opera has let's you list and switch open tabs with CTRL+TAB, or lets you reposition your tabs. I use this tiny add-on, written by one of the main Firefox front end developers: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-us/firefox/addon/custom-tab-width/ https://addons.mozilla.org/en-us/firefox/addon/custom-tab-wi... It makes Firefox have the Chrome behavior of making tabs shrink infinitely. All it does it tweak one minor setting in the UI, so it's pretty bulletproof.
  - progrock 13y ago
    Thanks for that! Actually it still introduces the scroller at some point, but is slightly better.

tsm 13y ago

[Replying here due to HN's threading limits. This is in response to https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5825892 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5825892] Anyway, I fail to see a significant difference between Finder and Chrome's appearance: http://i.imgur.com/sgfMXOy.png http://i.imgur.com/sgfMXOy.png If Chrome was full of tabs, the ~20px area to drag the window around is arguably a bit small, but it'd look ridiculous if there was a huge margin above the tabs.