So tell me, how many times do you look at the URL for the pages you are visiting while you are browsing? Once, twice… every time you visit a new link??
I’ve come to notice that when people visit a website, all he needed the address bar is just once, the first time he types in (or ctrl+v in) the main URL to which page he is visiting. After that, he keep following the links in the page and hardly ever needed to see which URL he’s visiting. Or, to do more justice, think of yourself, are you interested in looking at all the random URLs generated or those real long URLs of every page you visit? Do you ever keep track of them?? Of course, for security purpose, you may perhaps want to make it sure that you are still in the particular domain you intend to visit!!
Chrome, Firefox and Internet Explorer: Notice how many screen real estate does the address bar occupy.
So, the conclusion is, we don’t need the address bar to occupy so much screen real estate.
Now, I’ve observed my friends and myself clicking on each tab turn by turn (when more than one tab is opened) waiting for the pages in the tabs to load. When you are on a tab, you don’t know how much the the other pages in the other opened tabs are loaded with as the loading indication doesn’t tell you how much it has loaded. So, I’ve decided to use a visual indication that will show the users about the loading status of the other opened tabs other than the currently active one. Considering the above two issues, here is how my design looks.
Of course, it’s a flavor of Chrome. Once can prob’ly tweak into Chromium open source codes and develop this UI.
