I enjoyed that brief Android Chrome experiment where the browser supported moving the address bar to the bottom. Now that feature has been made available on iOS, but remains AWOL on Android.
Why do u still use chrome? I suggest switching to Thorium, Vivaldi, Firefox or Kiwi. Edit: all of my suggested browsers except Thorium(at least I didn’t find it, plus it’s a relatively young browser) has bottom toolbar. Same dev is working on lighter Firefox version called Mercury, it’s not on phones yet.
While I don’t like the address bar on the bottom, I always support more options for stuff, especially cosmetics.
Honestly, I think we put way too many important buttons at the top of phones. Address bar at the bottom is a good start though.
I’m assuming to follow safaris design
In fact, Chrome on iOS is Safari. The same applies to Firefox.
Apple doesn’t allow apps to parse JavaScript arbitrarily, so browsers are just a Safari WebView with whatever UI and tracking they want to add on top.
The exception being one weird browser I can’t recall the name of that actually renders everything remotely and just streams the final contents to the iOS client, but that’s a bizarre approach.
I don’t know the full details, but I’ve read that Apple may be dropping the requirement to use WebKit within third party browsers in the near future. Something to look forward to.
You’re thinking of Puffin Web Browser, which is definitely a very bizarre approach. However, I believe they recently discontinued their ios port.
Stop using Chrome. It’s a privacy nightmare.
Firefox lets you do this.
Windows Phone for more than a decade:
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