Comment #88 on issue 13 by iambob: Closing last tab also closes window http://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=13
I didn't say the tab IS the application because it is a process. I said it because this is the philosophy the Chromium developers are taking. So, before you think I'm just making things up, feel free to read about the design plans for Chromium's future. At some point, nearly all of Google's installed "applications" will essentially be Chromium tabs. Again, Chrome/Chromium is NOT just a "web browser." It is an application frame-set disguised at first as a web browser. Imagine, for instance, you decide to run Google Earth (not Google Maps, but the 3-D Google Earth) and it runs as a Chrome tab. In this case, the address bar would no longer be there, because that is only relevant to browsing the web. Then you run Google Picasa (not the web-based Picasa Web, but the installed application) and it also runs as a Chrome tab. You can drag these tabs out as their own stand-alone apps, or can let them nest with each other in the tabbed interface. This is the future of Chromium/Chrome. In the meantime, it "appears" to be just a web browser, but at its heart it is much more. Everyone is spending so much time trying to focus on the web browser aspect of Chrome/Chromium that they don't understand why there is certain resistance for such common features found in other web browsers. The reason is because those other web browser are just that... just web browsers. Chromium/Chrome was intended for so much more. -- You received this message because you are listed in the owner or CC fields of this issue, or because you starred this issue. You may adjust your issue notification preferences at: http://code.google.com/hosting/settings --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ Automated mail from issue updates at http://crbug.com/ Subscription options: http://groups.google.com/group/chromium-bugs -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
