A Rant About Google Chrome's Minimize Button.

[limoshawn]

Dear Google,

Please redo the minimize/maximize/close window buttons on the Chrome browser. EVERY other piece of software that opens a window has a uniform button layout EXCEPT YOU! When a user, like myself, has multiple windows open that they want to minimize your browser is always the fly in the ointment because YOUR minimize button is not in the same place as everyone else's leading to your browser not being minimized. I know you like to be different but to be frank, this difference is a pain in the butt.

Thank you.

[jdMorgan]

On Win7 running Chrome 6.0.472.63 the Minimize, Maximize, and Close buttons for the entire window are in the same place and order as those in all my other applications. IOW, I do not see a difference.

OK, being really critical, these buttons appear to be about 5% smaller than, say, the ones in Firefox, but they are in the same place and in the same order.

What OS are you on, and what version of Chrome are you using?

Jim

[limoshawn]

boy jdMorgan, you really know how to rain on a rant! ;)

my main machine is an older xp machine and thats the one where the minimize button is a good 1/4 inch to the left of where all others are. after looking at some of my other machines with newer versions of windows i see that the Chrome buttons are in fact in line with other software windows.

[kaled]

Apologies if you already know all this but...

By the sound of it, you need a toggle-desktop button. Using Notepad, create a file called something like Toggle-Desktop.scf (see below) and drag it to the quicklaunch area of the taskbar.

Alternatively, right-click the taskbar and select Show Desktop.

Incidentally, your rant is legitimate - Windows provides methods to programmatically determine the correct size of buttons, it sounds like Google haven't bothered to use them.

Kaled.

[Shell]
Command=2
IconFile=explorer.exe,3
[Taskbar]
Command=ToggleDesktop

[graeme_p]

Chrome draws its own buttons because it takes over the whole window so it can put its tabs where the title bar would normally be. It does the same thing on Linux and (I assume) MacOS and everything else.

Personally I prefer what the Firefox Tree Style Tabs extension does, but Chrome's solution is the most efficient use of space.