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Did Google ever say why it killed the bottom address bar in Chrome? (And what's your fave browser?) (lemmy.world)
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Because damn that's annoying. With phones being massive now, it makes little sense to make us reach up to the top of the screen to swipe between tabs. Do all their chrome devs just have super long fingers..?

I tried switching to Firefox, which has the URL box at the bottom, but the lack of tab grouping (not the same thing as Firefox's tab collections) is really annoying. I've come to love that feature in Chrome!

So, next question... What's your fave browser on Android, and how well does it handle syncing with the desktop?

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[–] circuit@partizle.com 3 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Bromite hasn't been updated for a while sadly, a shame as it was the only chromium based browser on Android that wasn't full of bloat and had ad blocking.

[–] aon@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

Ah, that sucks. Thanks for the heads up!

[–] ErikDegenerik@lemmy.one 1 points 1 year ago

This is by the dev that worked on Bromite, it's regularly updated.

[–] NoisyOne57@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

You can also use Vivaldi's mobile version as well. It's also chromium-based, you can set address-bar position and tab switcher style, and it has inbuilt tracker and ad blocking, just like the desktop version.