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Since opening Google Chrome Store six months ago, the company has set out to blur the boundaries between the operating system, the program and the browser. And even the smallest changes made by the developers were aimed at this.
In Google's world, the operating system is both a browser, a program, and now a web app. The last difference between them is erased – the address bar in the browser is removed. Thus, the next version of Chrome 13 will be rid of the address bar. Moreover, the browser itself smoothly fades into the background, disappearing from the user's field of view.
Now, instead of constantly seeing the URL bar, the user will have to double-click the tab to see the shortened version of the URL that appears when the cursor hovers over it. If you move the cursor, the address bar disappears.
To activate the hidden URL bar, users will also have to right-click and select the “Hide toolbar” tab.
More than 160 million active browser users expect a variety of graphics and features that go beyond what we would expect from an app like this.
With the disappearing address bar, users will be able to control apps using web icons without entering URLs, which the company says are a thing of the past. Google wants our web experience to be limited to “dots and buttons” rather than a collection of confusing domain names full of slashes and misspellings.