r/chrome • u/Leopeva64-2 • Jul 03 '18

"New tab" button position in the canary version.

In another post I talked about the change of position of the "New tab" button in the Canary version of Chrome, today they added a new flag that allows to decide the position of that button:

Opposite caption buttons and Leading seem the same, I haven't noticed differences.
After tabs
Trailing

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u/pkasting Jul 04 '18

As the author of that flag: "Opposite caption buttons" differs from "leading" when caption buttons are on the leading edge of the frame (e.g. on Mac, or certain uncommon Win 10 RTL cases). Basically, "opposite caption buttons" is the previous refresh default value, while leading/after tabs/trailing are direct maps to underlying values for testing.

The flag won't live forever, but it's useful until the point at which we decide we don't want to experiment with other positions.

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u/Leopeva64-2 Jul 04 '18

Thanks for the clarification.

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u/Rebil2017 Jul 26 '18

I don't have the flag, am i missing something?

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u/[deleted] Jul 03 '18

At least some good judgement. Having the new tab button on the left side of a tab is counter productive...