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Status: WontFix
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Closed: Oct 8
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Pri: 3
Type: Bug
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Single tab mode: hide x button by default

Project Member Reported by bettes@chromium.org, Jun 29 2018

Issue description

The essence of single tab mode is to present a more immersive viewing experience for single web documents. Just as you would use the window controls to close an app window, a user should intuit that the window controls close a single Chrome tab. 

Ideally, we hide the x button until the single tab is hovered. This provides the functionality upon request, but doesn't complicate the UI in it's default state. 

Time permitting,  issue 856667  shows the x button by default because that's the existing 'active tab' behavior. 
 
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Comment 1 by bettes@chromium.org, Jun 29 2018

Noted from our study, there was a "small amount" of confusion around closing single tabs. We should evaluate how meaningful that sentiment is when picking this up. 

https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1lukEB7jWdiT0HhP_DpWjbwMRquf4_rJaUd4zKPVhwiE/edit#slide=id.g3d27c9edfd_0_6
We also had at least one bug filed from teamfood on that last point.  I feel nervous about this change.
Drive-by comment: I also find the lack of an "x" button on the single tab somewhat disconcerting, but maybe that's just change aversion :)
Labels: -Pri-3 Pri-2
Status: Available (was: Untriaged)
Labels: Group-Single_Tab_Mode
Labels: M-70 Target-70
Labels: -Pri-2 Pri-3
Components: UI>Browser>TabStrip
Labels: -M-70 -Target-70 M-X
Labels: -Proj-MdRefresh Proj-DesktopUI
Labels: Hotlist-DesktopUITriaged
Status: WontFix (was: Available)
Closing all Single-Tab Mode bugs as we pursue a new direction in this area.

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