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The address bar at the bottom is useful. You must have a small phone or big hands. And these days small phones are super rare...

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Weirdly, I have felt this is a huge improvement over the Chrome-style address bar that hides when you scroll down. I always found it very distracting for reading, and it doesn't seem to annoy me as much when it's on the bottom (even though I think they brought back the collapsing behavior in a recent version).

> Chrome-style address bar that hides when you scroll down

Is this a Chrome thing? I thought it was just a user-hating web design thing.

A lot of news sites seem to have a topbar that becomes invisible when you scroll down and reappears when you scroll up. I can't stand this. I want to scroll a particular line of text to the top of the text pane. I don't care where the top of the text pane is. I don't care whether the topbar is visible or invisible. But adjusting the topbar's visibility in response to scrolling makes it actually impossible to scroll the text to where I want it to be.

OP is referring to the address bar (part of the browser chrome), and not the "top bar" common on news sites, which is an html element (part of the page).

The Chrome address bar doesn't do that, though.

On Android it does.

Admittedly, and horrifyingly, those stack.

And you can put it back on top if you want.

On the other hand, having a phone you can reach every corner of while using it one-handed is such a nice thing (and regularly discussed here on HN as such) that it wouldn't be too surprising if OP does prefer the bar on top for exactly that reason.

Also, my experience with buttons on the bottom with larger phones is that frequently you end up trying to extend your thumb and hitting a button with your palm, so YMMV anyway.

I miss my SE, it died and got replaced with an iPhone 7 which is (IMO) a downgrade in almost every way except the camera.

Those are a dying breed. In 2 years there will be no phones shorter than 15 cm in height, at all. I know, I keep checking...

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