[ScoutOrgo]

Tangentially related, but google nixed android chrome's "home"/"duet" feature which allowed having the url bar at the bottom of the screen and made navigating on a phone/tablet _much_ easier. I'm somewhat baffled how they can work on a tablet and be so unaware of what a good UI looks like.

[squaresmile]

I can't believe after years of fiddling with a bottom bar (Home/Duplex/Duet), they couldn't figure it out and just scrapped the whole thing. The killedbygoogle meme is probably exaggerated a bit but I feel like this whole saga just screams a lack of direction.

Also, like all google's mobile apps, the iOS version is just straight up better: https://apps.apple.com/us/app/google-chrome/id535886823

Looks like there's a new flag chrome://flags#enable-conditional-tabstrip [0]. Here we go again.

[0] https://www.androidpolice.com/2020/07/15/chrome-84/