All web browsers are getting serious overhauls with the most recent being Internet Explorer 9 with its new one box. This is a unified address and search box and it makes sense as you could always search from the URL box in browsers anyway.
Now ConceivablyTech are reporting that Google is now considering its options for future versions of its Chrome browser and they could be going even further than Microsoft.
In an interesting move, one possible option is to remove the address and search boxes altogether and instead allow people to type searches and URLs directly into a browser tab.
This is an approach that makes a large amount of sense in the web 2.0 world. As more and more people use web applications the browser �furniture� is becoming an annoyance that just takes up valuable desktop space. This is especially true on the smaller screen of netbooks, tablets and the like.
Google will have to weigh up this approach though with usability. How obvious will it be / can they make it that people can /should click on the tab title to type searches and addresses? What happens when you have a lot of tabs open at one time?
Thus there are also additional options they are looking at one of which is a one box similar to that now used in Internet Explorer.
You can see their four concepts above. It can reasonably be assumed that the Sidetab concept will probably fail to gain support but the final version could go to either the Classic or Compact views.
It is interesting to note a specific touch version of the browser too with large buttons. This is something that Microsoft won�t be delivering until Windows 8 either in the summer or the autumn of 2012. Google used Chrome to get a significant head start on both Firefox and IE by revolutionising the browser and including the features that people actually *needed*. By showing what a touch interface could look like now they could solidify this position for the forseeable future.
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