Major Themes
Content not chrome
In the long term, we think of Chromium as a tabbed window manager or shell for the web rather than a browser application. We avoid putting things into our UI in the same way you would hope that Apple and Microsoft would avoid putting things into the standard window frames of applications on their operating systems.The tab is our equivalent of a desktop application's title bar; the frame containing the tabs is a convenient mechanism for managing groups of those applications. In future, there may be other tab types that do not host the normal browser toolbar.
Light, fast, responsive, tactile
Chromium should feel lightweight (cognitively and physically) and fast.Features
- Tabs
- Tab Movement
- Design
- Throbber
- Window Frame
- Omnibox
- Input Types
- Tab to Search
- Result Types
- Incognito
- New Tab Page
- Most Visited
- Frequent Searches
- Recent Bookmarks
- Recently Closed Tabs
- Downloads
- Shelf
- Browse
- Bookmarks
- Adding
- Editing
- Bookmarks Bar
- History
- Browse
- Search Results
- Toolbar
- UI elements
- Visual design
- Status Bubble
- Find in Page
- Options
- Hung Renderer Dialog (someone needs to write this)
- Visual Design