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I agree. I'm really irritated as well that when you click the any of the tabs while Safari is in the background, it will bring Safari to the foreground AND make that tab active. I primarily use the "title bar" area of my windows to switch around. This is a huge annoyance.

It does take some getting used to, but I love the extra vertical space it leaves for showing content. It's only a few pixels but I'll take what I can get on the 13" MacBook.

But when you get used to it you won't be able to go back.

I have a hunch this is a prelude to seeing it as a pervasive UI element in iLife and possibly as core UI element within Snow Leopard.

It seems when different Apple teams introduce something, it trickles into other applications. Smart Playlists/Mailboxes, and brushed metal theme come to mind. It'd be fun to do a study to see how one application influenced others and possibly the OS.

I don't like the tabs on top either, I can't use them when browsing in full screen with mega zoomer.