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it's looking more and more like chrome

i'm not a fan of the wasted space around the centered but not-wide-enough url bar (urls are truncated even in the screenshots)

the rest seems decent though

it says the screenshots are mockups so i hope they improve

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> i'm not a fan of the wasted space around the centered but not-wide-enough url bar (urls are truncated even in the screenshots)

Somewhere previously I saw a mockup screenshot that showed customizing the toolbar, and the URL bar was flanked by flexible placeholders that could be removed. Removing them would also let you have the URL bar be left-aligned instead of centered.

Photon is significantly less like Chrome than Australis.

As far as I can tell, among technical commentators, there is a one-dimensional spectrum of browser UI design: on the one end is Chrome, and on the other is Netscape Navigator 3. Because this does not look particularly like Netscape Navigator 3, by definition it must be Chrome-like. :)

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