Chrome finally lets you move the address bar to the bottom, but not on Android
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The only downside to using Firefox on Android is that Google search results can take forever to load unless you clear site cookies. And Google Image search is awful.
However that's all fixed if you use Duck Duck Go instead.
+1 for duckduckgo. Google is mostly ads nowadays
i believe that's all fixed if you install the Google Search Fixer, or at least ive never had problems using google search on firefox android after installing that
Or Kagi. I couldn't do DDG but Kagi was good enough for me to finally switch off of Google.
And also fennec
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.
It was a joke
Yes, I was aware, just hijacking the top comment as not everybody would have been aware it was actually fucking possible in the past
Chromium Forks like Cromite and Brave have this feature already.
I use both. Firefox for most of my work and Chromium for sites that usually don't work well on FF.
I would recommend arkenfox over librewolf, that way you can use an up to date browser, with the same privacy and greater flexibility to enable features you may want (e.g. no letterbox etc).
I've been using cromite for months! 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.
My old windows phone did this and I loved it. I'm surprised its taking Google this long to do this. Not that I use chrome but still
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.
Thank you for letting me know about Startpage!
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
Like closer to your hand?
I didn't know bottom-address-bar was a thing, but I hate it
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Why?
My initial gut reaction is that it's ugly ๐คทโโ๏ธ apparently it has its admirers, but I'm definitely not one of them
It's just about usability. Top of phones are hard to reach nowadays, so the more UI elements that are towards the bottom the better!