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Still not on the linux version of chrome-dev.

I've had this feature for at least a month now on Chrome Canary for Mac. It's definitely useful but its still buggy.

Yes, makes sense to eliminate the input field, and save screen real-estate, mostly for smaller mobile devices.

Absolutely lovely way of saving space. But we're blurring the line between browser and content now, and this is going to confuse less technologically gifted people if not done properly.

Furthermore, are other sites able to use this feature as well?

I'm personally worried that the current trend of browsers deviating far from a "standard" look will create problems for those who are not as prone to tinkering as we are. For them, things seemingly disappear and (re-?)appear at random and apart from the back button and the address bar there's really not much in the way of consistency anymore.

Even Explorer windows in Windows do this by hiding the menu bar unless you press Alt. It's not intuitive; "our kind" is very much an exception with our ability to find these things after the fact.

It's embarrassing that Chrome can't do things like address bar in full-screen. Another obvious problem is lack of tab overflow.

Chome does address bar perfectly fine in full-screen mode. http://i.imgur.com/YOdp2gP.png

Presentation mode (pictured in article) hide away all window chrome for... presentation

If I recall correctly, Opera did this in the best way (unsurprisingly): The URL bar in fullscreen is hidden until you move your mouse to the top, then it slides down, eliminating the need for separate fullscreen and presentation modes.

Firefox does that too, at least on Linux

(worst ever? the full screen functionality change in OS X Mountain Lion for those of us with more than one monitor: it blanks the second monitor for apps that uses the OS provided mechanism for full screen - at least some apps now "fake it" to avoid pissing off users).

(that full screen thing really is annoying)

Chrome on Mac OS X shows the address bar in presentation mode when you put the cursor at the top as well.

On OS X, yes, but not on Windows.

Can I ask what you are using to get that clean weather display? It looks wonderful!

Currently https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/currently/ojhmphdk...

Although its all of a sudden introduced this nasty bug: It steals focus away from the address bar which is horrible.

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