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Windows tip: launch Web applications from the taskbar
by Martin Jud
Find the address bar at the top of Chrome tricky to reach? Then try moving it all the way down.
Google recently integrated an option in Chrome that lets you move the browser’s address bar to the bottom. However, it hasn’t yet made its way into the standard browser settings. In view of ever-larger displays, this option could make it easier to enter URLs.
You need to activate the option that lets you move the address bar in Chrome’s experimental settings. To do this, carry out the following steps:
With the last step, you can also move the address bar back to the top if you don’t like the new position.
I tried it out myself and noticed a few things that explain why Google’s still hiding the option in its experimental settings:
Above all, the address bar disappearing prevents me from activating the option permanently for the time being. However, once these problems have been resolved, the function will be quite useful.
As a primary school pupil, I used to sit in a friend's living room with many of my classmates to play the Super NES. Now I get my hands on the latest technology and test it for you. In recent years at Curved, Computer Bild and Netzwelt, now at Digitec and Galaxus.