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Mouse targeting / Fitt's law is even improved with tabs-on-top in certain situations. Run Chrome or Firefox 4 maximized on Windows (or in a tiling window manager like XMonad on X11, with no border) and you can just run the mouse along the top of the screen to reach your tabs. They have "infinite" vertical target size, just like the Mac menubar.

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In the mockups shown, the tab doesn't extend fully to the edge of the window, which unfortunately means you don't get the "infinite pixels" advantage. The same is true for Chrome on OSX and Windows.

When you maximize Chrome on Windows, the tabs extend to the top of the screen. The plan is to do the same for Firefox 4.

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