@safiuddinkhan It's not like they're alone in doing this. I think Vista was one of the first that made this more common and it became a prominent Firefox (4-ish) and Chrome feature.
Now it's very common on every system.
Then again, so were scrollbars on the outer edge with the resize gadget right below it (Amiga, Mac), yet no X11 toolkit tried to do this. Possible, but not worth the loss of integration.
So since a while, Gnome stopped caring. Apparently to "save vertical space", which is a bit ridiculous considering the default themes with their overly generous whitespace.
@mhd I think they've wanted Chrome to be a platform for web apps so they've got rid of most the UI. Firefox was a real browser though, I don't know why the did the same 🤷
They've removed the SSB parts entirely last year, but the stupid UI remained.
It's still fixable with userChrome.css, my FF has tabs below the address bar and has a visible titlebar — looks way better!
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> Easy to slide along the very top edge of your screen.
Wow, now it actually makes sense 😮
On my workstation I have 2x30" displays, fullscreen browser window is a waste of space: all the content gets centered and the sides are empty. So it's a normal floating window, top of the window ≠ top of the screen in this case.
On my laptop I have a small screen, but sway bar is on top, so again I've got to aim to click on a tab.
It never even occured to me they had this in mind 😅
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@m0xee @safiuddinkhan It does the same for tabs that the Mac did for its menu bar. Easy to slide along the very top edge of your screen. So not entirely without justification.
(Not that this is the only or even primary reason, I would assume)
I'd really like to hear a better reason for some of the last decades UI preferences. I mean, I'm still complaing about tool bar buttons losing their 3D border, so it's possible that I'm just way behind the times. Or it's really style over substance.