Chrome finally lets you move the address bar to the bottom, but not on Android
Chrome finally lets you move the address bar to the bottom, but not on Android
The feature is only available on iOS for now.
Wow how horrible... continues to use firefox
Anyways.
Why would Google code for its opponent's OS first? Not that I use Chrome, anyway. Firefox has had that feature for ages.
Does it matter? The iOS app and Android app are almost certainly made by two different teams that operate independently.
The reason is probably really mundane, like the iOS Chrome team and Android Chrome team not working in lockstep or something of the sort. Like the iOS team planned it for 2023 Q4 and the Android team for 2024 Q1
Probably because safari has it that way by default.
The technology just isn't there yet
It used to be able to do it via an experimental feature, then they took that feature away. https://www.dignited.com/114084/how-to-relocate-the-chrome-address-bar-on-your-android-device/
It smacks of some VP of product development hating on the concept, despite it being optional, and wont back down over the decision. Most likely they used the navigation buttons on the bottom and this caused their great big sausage fingers a problem.
Somehow Chromium based Vivaldi pulled it off.
Chromium Forks like Cromite and Brave have this feature already.
Vivaldi also.
I've been using cromite for months! how did I not know about this??
how did I not know about this??
The first thing I do whenever I install anything is to go through the settings. To turn off trackers, analytics and explore the accessibility features.
Being at the bottom makes more sense on today's larger phones. I'm just so used to it being at the top it's hard to get used to it being at the bottom of the screen.
lol, if chrome isn't going to allow it on android then what's the point? Safari offers it (if it's the only feature you care about), and is a lot better then chrome.
Omg, why not for Android too? It's way easier to reach bottom than the top.
It actually exists in the codebase, but is disabled. 'The feature is not yet available for Android but was previously tested on the platform.'
Cromite browser let's you do this.
It never made sense to me, UX wise, to be up on handheld devices (one handed ones especially).
funny enough.. it was a feature flag to move it to the bottom on android for a while before but they removed that too
Eww