Chrome Canary on Android Testing Redesigned Tab Switcher

The Canary channel of Google Chrome on Android is rolling out a redesigned tab switcher folio as part of the company's continuous endeavor to bring a more than intuitive UI to the app. As role of its program, Chrome is adding a toggle to switch between regular and incognito tabs, which go on to be represented past minor rectangular cards, each of which can be closed by either swiping or via the pocket-sized 'cross' push button on their meridian-right corner.

One of the biggest benefits of the new layout is that information technology enables users to switch over from incognito tabs to full general tabs via a unproblematic toggle at the acme of the tab direction page, as can be seen from the screenshot below. The new feature is enabled by default, so there'south no need to change whatsoever setting via Chrome Flags (chrome://flags).

Chrome Canary Testing Redesigned Tab Switcher

Another new improver is the row of icons depicting the about-visited sites. It sits just above the regular tab cards and just nether the Google search bar. While the overall pattern does feel more intuitive, the boosted elements make the UI experience somewhat cramped, given the lack of screen real estate on standard smartphones. Some other feature Google might desire to add going forwards is an indicator showing the number of incognito tabs in the background.

Overall, the new additions have just been rolled out to Chrome Canary, which means information technology might exist a while before it's rolled out to the stable channel, so it will exist interesting to see how this UI volition evolve in the intervening menstruum.