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by kijin 5157 days ago
The only difference between Chrome's tab design and Firefox's is that Chrome's tabs have rounded corners and Firefox's tabs are rectangular. You refuse to use a browser because it has rounded corners? Really?

Anyway, there will probably be add-ons to bring back the rectangular look if enough people prefer it to the rounded look. If I were a real fan of Firefox's current look, I'd be more worried about the big orange button being dropped in favor of an options button in the exact same place where Chrome puts it.
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sho_hn 5157 days ago
> The only difference between Chrome's tab design and Firefox's is that Chrome's tabs have rounded corners and Firefox's tabs are rectangular.

While I'm overall not a fan of Chrome's UI and this may speak correctly to the present state of affairs, I feel there's something worth adding to give credit to Chrome for advancing the state of the art: They implemented a bunch of smart behaviors Firefox later copied. Good piece on this: http://www.theinvisibl.com/2009/12/08/chrometabs/

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chris_wot 5156 days ago
My goodness! Finally, someone giving Apple a run for their money in terms of obsessive design! I love how they do tabs right to left when using an Arabic locale... They've really thought it out.

Incidentally, no idea who voted you down. That was a very insightful link!

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sho_hn 5156 days ago
Just to add to that, re reversing in Arabic locales: All KDE/Qt apps will do the same with their tabs and have done so for at least a decade, and you can even get a feel for it in an LTR locale by running them with --reverse (useful for devs to check for issues in custom widgets).

(And thanks for the kind words. :)

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conradfr 5156 days ago
Well yes, it's a detail but it's in my face all day long. Also, on XP (that I still use at work ...) it has that ugly xp-esque blue.
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