In recent weeks, Chrome for Android started developing a bottom address bar, and an early look is now available.
The current latest version of Chrome Canary enables the bottom address bar. It’s really quite simple, Google just moves the browser “Chrome” to the bottom of the screen.
Of course, Chrome’s first attempt at this design in 2016 was also simple, but Google added more and more complexity over time, including the bottom bar and later the split bar design.
So far, the three-dot overflow menu remains unchanged and no other UI tweaks are ordered from top to bottom. There are also no changes to the tab switcher. This design is still in its early stages, so we don’t know yet if these will be updated.
As of this build (131.0.6772.0) and Android 15 QPR1 Beta 2 on Pixel 9 Pro, the gesture handles overlap but are otherwise usable.
After installing Chrome Canary from the Play Store, it is experimental, buggy, and not recommended as an everyday browser. Enable the following flags:
chrome://flags/#android-bottom-toolbar
restart your browser and[設定]>[アドレス バー]Move to[下]Select.
Last year, Chrome for iOS introduced a bottom address bar. The current work on Android may actually launch this time. As I previously wrote in July, Chrome for Android requires this option in the bottom address bar. However, it’s important that Google doesn’t disrupt the existing simplicity by redesigning the entire browser along the way.
What I’d like Chrome to try is putting the exact same bar at the bottom of the screen as it currently has, as an option to improve one-handed use and reachability. To be clear, I don’t want Google to redesign the entire browser UI as part of this.
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