Chrome's Giant Touch-Optimized Menu
 

Chrome's Giant Touch-Optimized Menu
Somewhere between Chrome 25 (beta) and Chrome 26 (dev), the browser's menu got bigger. It's **w optimized for touch interfaces even if you're using a **n-touch computer. I've checked the height of the menu and it's **w 580 pixels, instead of 420 pixels. That's a 38% increase and it makes the interface more difficult to use for mouse users.


When you use Chrome's sync feature, the menu's height becomes 625 pixels. Here's how a recent Chromium build looks on my 1280x800 laptop and remember that most laptops sold right **w have a 1366x768 resolution:


Chrome also changed the contextual menu:

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