Yup… Google Chrome is now the 3rd most used browser in US…. pushing ahead of Safari and leaving it in 4th place. Internet Explorer and Firefox is still way ahead and it’ll take Chrome sometime to catch up with them if it ever will… considering Microsoft has finally woke up to the Browsers thing and is paying lot of attention in making Internet Explorer right and Firefox is getting more faster, sleeker and minimal looks which everyone is into these days.
And Google Chrome is getting Unified menu too making its minimal looks, well…. more minimal.
It looks cool doesn’t it? It makes things more simpler. This Unified menu is currently available in Google Chrome dev builds. you can enable this feature by adding a command-line flag to the desktop shortcut: –new-wrench-menu.
Opera already uses an unified menu that replaces the menu bar, while Firefox 4 will include a single menu button. The unified menu takes up less space, it’s less complex and it reduces clutter.
"The general purpose of the menubar is to contain all of the things that you want your program to do but you can’t cram into the main UI. So the menubar generally ends up with a lot of stuff that isn’t used very often, if at all, and yet is reproduced on every window and takes up a significant amount of real estate. It also has the tendency to become a dumping ground for new or hardly used features. Starting with Vista, and continuing with Windows 7, the menubar has been systematically removed from Windows applications built by Microsoft and other vendors. It has been replaced with alternatives like the Windows Explorer contextual strip or the Ribbon found in Office 2007," explains Mozilla’s wiki.
