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Google Chrome's tabbed options page now enabled by default
It's just as easy to get around in the tabbed settings page and perhaps a little easier, since the search field allows you to find specific settings instantly -- and we do mean instant. As with Google Instant in the Omnibar, Chrome will load settings which match your input in real time in the righthand pane. The search function will even pull in portions of separate settings pages, which you can see in the screenshot after the break.
So why switch to an in-tab options page? It's easier for Google to maintain across versions, since they don't need to worry about differences in user interfaces across the Windows, Mac, Linux, and Chrome OS builds. Everything is rendered by Chrome using standard Web code.
One thing we'd like to see changed is the entry in the Windows wrench menu -- clicking Options to open a page called Settings doesn't quite make sense.
One thing we'd like to see changed is the entry in the Windows wrench menu -- clicking Options to open a page called Settings doesn't quite make sense.
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Subscribe to commentsScott Simmons (Secret-HQ)Jan 11th 2011 9:41AM
Glad to see it. I'm baffled as to why in-tab settings and configuration pages aren't common yet. My browser of choice (Maxthon) has been doing this for years now, and I suspect the only reason Chrome didn't do it out of the gate was that it's taken a while for Chrome to build up enough necessary options to require a good navigable interface.
Cougar AbogadoJan 11th 2011 10:26AM
Do you think the "Options" entry will be changed to "Settings," like in Chrome OS (at least on the Cr-48)?
Cougar AbogadoJan 11th 2011 10:32AM
By the way, in canary 10.0.634.0, has your Chrome Web Store icon's position changed from the top right to somewhere else on the new tab page? If so, what significance do you think the change has beyond aesthetics?
Cougar AbogadoJan 12th 2011 4:00PM
I think this may have been a glitch. I believe the icon's back to where it was before, in canary 10.0.636.0.
DarienJan 11th 2011 7:13PM
Hey, I just realized that mine says 'Under the Bonnet' instead of 'Under the Hood'! Perhaps because I changed my language settings