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0 pointssho_hn13y ago0 comments

> 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_wot13y 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!

sho_hnOP13y 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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