chrome's dropdown - extra space is annoying ? A spot for ads ?

[Digital Doctor]

See the white space to the right and left of the dropdown ?
I think that is new.
Is it ?
I figure that space will have google ads in it soon.
Has it always been there ?

 

[Paul B]

I doubt it.

It matches the width of the address bar so if you have minimal icons (like me), there is very little space on either side.

 

[Digital Doctor]

it doesn't match the width of the address bar.
it used to do that.
now there is space on both sides.

 

[Jeremy]

I believe it is a bug on some systems, I've seen it on my work computer but not my home computer (same Chrome version). I seriously doubt its for ads.

 

[Paul B]

it doesn't match the width of the address bar.

It does.

 

[Digital Doctor]

For me , it's like this on 5 windows XP boxes, 3 vista boxes and 2 windows 7 boxes. And I only checked 10 computers.

 

[Paul B]

Your screenshot in the first post shows exactly the same behaviour as I stated.

 

[Digital Doctor]

Your screenshot in the first post shows exactly the same behaviour as I stated.

It was a misrepresentation as the background was white.

This is what I am referring to.

clearly the dropdown doesn't line up with the URL bar.
at least on 10/10 of my computers.

 

[Paul B]

It is perfectly aligned with the address bar from what I can see.

 

[Digital Doctor]

I'm talking about this area

The dropdown for the address bar goes much further left than the beginning of the address bar.

The red area is new.
I think !

 

[Paul B]

So am I.

Remove those icons and the space reduces to almost nothing.

Hence why it's not for adverts.

 

[Digital Doctor]

I just want it such that the dropdown is only as wide as the actual URL address bar.

 

[Jeremy]

I'm fairly sure its a bug. Like, 99% sure because its as wide as the URL bar, but at work its full width.

 

[Digital Doctor]

Firefox :

15/15 computers with Chrome have this bug for me.

 

[Jeremy]

Its a bug...
https://code.google.com/p/chromium/...easeBlock Cr Status Owner Summary OS Modified

 

[Adam Howard]

Chromium - It's what Google Chrome is built off of. Think you'll be happier there if you're not happy with Google's take on things.

As for your ad theory....

 

[Digital Doctor]

Its a bug...
https://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=276715&q=suggestion&colspec=ID Pri M Iteration ReleaseBlock Cr Status Owner Summary OS Modified

Haha !
I just found this and I saw your report.

Omnibox popup styling change
https://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=276746

Not a bug:

 

[Digital Doctor]

Lots of people don't like it

This change is By design: https://codereview.chromium.org/15745031

This change the native omnibox to look and behave a bit more like the HTML Instant Extended one.

The popup positioning logic now has to be done at a bit of a higher level since it needs to know the window width as well as just the omnibox width. I added a new function in LocationBar:elegate to get this that's implemented by the toolbar view (the lowest-level UI component that knows about the window width as well as the omnibox width).

More information must now be passed to the popup, so I added a new OmniboxViewDelegate that's implemented by the LocationBar to give the popup its context. This cleaned up some dependencies where the popup had to know about the location bar and did things silly things like this:
location_bar_->GetWidget()->GetNativeView()

 

[Digital Doctor]

A good company never misses an opportunity for a targeted ad !

 

[Anseur]

View attachment 55006

A good company never misses an opportunity for a targeted ad !

still not a good buy as it stands I'm afraid

Mine behaves like this and it does on every other computer I've ever remoted into in my job. They can't really put ads in a space when the space is dynamic like that.