Twenty three years of churn has brought what UX benefits exactly? Hiding the protocol, hiding details about secure connections, hiding the status bar, hiding the text on tiny buttons, hiding the menus: https://mk0ghacksnety2pjrgh8.kinstacdn.com/wp-content/upload...
and for what? Optimising for people on 1366x768 laptops and people who don't want to do very much but search and click one result?
Judging by my coworkers and relatives, I don't think many users care that much about the screen real estate. Those of us who do customize the hell out of the browser chrome anyway.
Firefox 2 looked fine in my opinion, I would be happy if they just kept it as it was back then.
Firefox 2 looked fine in my opinion, I would be happy if they just kept it as it was back then.