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Status: WontFix
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Closed: Jul 10
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OS: Chrome
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Type: Bug-Regression



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Single-tab mode is silly now that there's an × and + on the right

Project Member Reported by mgiuca@chromium.org, Jul 10

Issue description

Chrome Version: 69
OS: Chrome OS

What steps will reproduce the problem?
(1) Open a window with a single tab.

What is the expected result?
Either we go all-in on single-tab mode (hiding the "×" and tab separator, making the tab title look like a title bar; see  Issue 854007 ), or we remove it (it's just a single tab).

What happens instead?
The tab decoration is removed, so it doesn't look like a tab, but some arbitrary distance to the right of the tab title, there is an "× | +" which looks like some kind of introduction to elementary arithmetic.

At least get rid of the "×" which is redundant for the "×" in the top-right corner of the window.

Context: As discussed on  Issue 848380 , single-tab mode seems to be struggling to find an identity; it can't really occupy the full width (essentially becoming a single window without a tab) and there were complaints about the New Tab button being in the top-left corner. The recent change seems to have reverted most of the unique differences about a window that has only one tab. But this leaves it in a state where it just feels arbitrarily different to multi-tab mode with no clear advantage to doing so.
 
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Status: WontFix (was: Untriaged)
We're getting rid of the close X until hover.  We're also considering cases to expand the tab width.

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